Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'UNLOCKED tailbooms' going through SOUND BARRIER [Tue Nov 4 2014]

Daily Headlines 4 November 2014

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Business News Intel: A tiny video drone? Disguised as a BRACELET? Great! Take half a million dollars! Vid Nixie toy 'copter launches from your arm (not your ARM) Australia Post goes a little bit grey with parcel forwarding service Shopmate service gives Aussies a US postal address, sets Australia Tax at AU$25 Seriously, for real this time, the 12in MaxiPad is TOTALLY on the way ... ... allegedly ... sigh Australia's going to need a standalone metadata retention bureau Retained metadata is too valuable to be left to ISPs and carriers Russians hear Tim Cook is gay, pull dead Steve Jobs' enormous erection No happy ending from these jerks UK print peddler Annodata slips ring on Berkshire firm's finger Stumbling services biz Keltec was once a Blighty bigshot Data protection laws come to the rescue of poor, underpaid UK MPs Shredding of expenses paperwork sparks cover-up accusations Would you recognise the Vans shoes logo? Neither would Euro trademark bods Cobblers to beg for recognition of 'distinctive character' Coinbase launches in Europe - but who's its mystery bank partner? Comment All a bit murky - but firm claims userbase is growing BBC clamps down on ILLICIT iPlayer watchers RSS feeds binned in favour of in-house API NHS slow to react as Windows XP support nears the end Trusts need to make a move by April 2015 Alca-Lu stems bleeding, squeezes costs Signs glorious 'Shift Plan' is working as revenue - err - shifts to IP routing biz India to develop an API for entire government Biometric log-in and portal to track reviled civil servants already winning approval Singapore plots photonic future with new research institute $SGD80 million to shine a light on optics Channel News Selling kit in the traditional way? Days might be numbered Public cloud spend to hit $127bn by 2018, predicts IDC Data Centre News Why Seagate spent $374m on Xyratex: It's part of a cloud system Comment Exec rank multiplication Samsung gobbles Proximal Data for server-side SSD Mighty chaebol figures to make better caching software - but is it ready to play? VMware: Yep, ESXi bug plays 'finders keepers' with data backups Have you tried DISABLING then ENABLING CBT? WHOMP, there it is: Seagate demos Kinetic disk drive Ethernet-astic fun at OpenStack What you need to know about keeping your cloud data safe Seeking shelter from the storm Hardware News Nexus 9: Google and HTC deliver Android 5.0 'Lollipop' at iPad prices Review Latest Nexus slab doesn't skimp on performance Apple Watch buyers will feel 'different' after being 'serviced' in spring 2015 It's a, er, neverending marathon of touching - ex-Burberry boss LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 – dual SSD sizzler Review The world's fastest portable storage, apparently That 'TECH-FREE' Nophone? It was already out years ago Well, sort of... Remember the Stuckist Phone? Networks News Verizon and AT&T sitting in a tree, V-o-L-T-E: Duo vow to hookup by 2015 It really does take two to tango France KICKS UK into THIRD PLACE for public Wi-Fi hotspots US takes second spot, and Asian giants loom Japan tells operators: Put a SIM lock in a new mobe? You'd better UNLOCK it for FREE SIM liberty to promote competition Manufacturers SLAM UK.gov: 'High speed broadband' rollout is TOO SLOW Not impressed with 'poor communication', either Greeks BEST in WORLD – at, er, breaking their mobile phones Blighty's not much better at preserving Jesus Phones either ICANN, ICAN'T, IWON'T: uWHAT? How the internet is actually run Comment Our ex-ICANN staffer spills the beans IPv6 web starts to look like the internet we know Search, shopping, news, TV and naughties Security News Forging administrator cookies and crocking crypto ... for dummies Gun security chap releases infosec 101 courseware and book Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS'd with Chinese cyber-toolkit Now we're not saying it was the Chinese government, but... Pro-ISIS script kiddies deface West Yorkshire egg-chasers' site Um, that'll teach the, er, local rugby team Auditors find encrypted chat client TextSecure is secure Except for one bug that could well and truly spoil the party and turn you into Milhouse Remote code execution flaws fixed in tnftp and wget Linux bods thankful, Apple a stone-cold boilerplate Software News Super-villains of C sought for WORLD CONQUEST plan 'Do be evil' code contest challenges devs to develop nasties we can all learn from Oracle users open can of whup-ass on licensing policies 'Relations are hostile and filled with deep-rooted mistrust' Drupalgeddon megaflaw raises questions over CMS bods' crisis mgmt Fallout spreads as securobods issue warnings Windows 8 or nowt: Consumer Win 7 fans are OUT OF LUCK Professional version keeps going – for now Microsoft now licensing Windows by the user, across multiple devices Redmond's silly VDI arrangements look to be a thing of the past NSW Govt spends half a million dollars on XP support Foot cushions well used in eight agency IT shops Science News European SPACEMAN exposes EERIE snaps of ISS in Twitter feed Bag-on-head TERROR... In space, no one sees you tweet Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'UNLOCKED tailbooms' going through SOUND BARRIER 'Shuttlecock mode' deployed just before crackup LOHAN test flight: Results in from Oz jury Andrew Tridgell picks over Vulture 2 avionics logs Rosetta reaches perfect position to get touchy Philae Comet-pronging probe is 'lined up for lander delivery' Bona-fide SCIENCE: Which forms of unusual sex are, um, mainstream? Spoiler - Golden Showers just aren't

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