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Business News US Ass. Commerce Sec hits back at claims global DNS is DOOMED Starting to get messy in Washington Web standards body boss says 'thanks but no thanks' to ICANN's internet power grab Internet Society CEO speaks out ahead of showdown Post Office: Here's £100m, Computacenter. Now get us up to date, for pity's sake Reseller bags cloudy refresh & PC estate gig One digi market to RULE 'em all: Get with the net neutrality plan, guys, moans EU digi-veep Andrus Ansip has toy/pram interface failure A nation of CODERS? Yes, says UK.gov, and have some cash to do it School leavers offered bursary to study maths (as long as they teach!) Égalité, Fraternité - Oui, peut-etre. Liberté? NON, French speedcam Facebookers told Vous etes ayant un rire, n'est-ce pas? Met ready to cough £150m to IT bods who'll help coppers go digital Plan will save police £60m per year MP caught playing Candy Crush at committee meeting: I'll ‘try’ not to do it again Nigel Mills was still ‘fully engaged’ Osborne ponders giving fleeing bank customers an API getaway car Because what we all need is an easier way for world+dog to get at your personal data Yes, Obama has got some things wrong on the internet. But so has the GOP Analysis Republicans need to think, not just oppose Government locked into £330m Oracle contract until 2016 Not one, not two but three mega-tech firms are getting paid.... Competition probe opens door to Canal+ Spain for Rupert Murdoch Analysis Nothing but blue Sky for press baron... Data Centre News Google and Microsoft, sitting in a tree, L I C E N S I N GEE! Here's a happy hybrid: your Microsoft licences, Google's cloud, Chromed desktops Seagate: We'll bring down the HAMR in 2017. But will we give you SHINGLES? All the problems really are nails, it's not just us honest Step by flashy step: Toshiba clambers up to next gen SSD Gen 2 tech flash twins Why blades need enterprise management software: Learn from Trev's hardcore lab tests A morality tale Sink your teeth into OCZ's ARC 100 SSD sizzler with tasty home-grown chips Review Troubled tech Toshiba takeover turnaround? Silicon Valley high rollers toss $36m at 'data centre OS' Mesosphere First new OS since Android? EVO: RAIL – Is NetApp sleeping with a SAN killer? Comment Company discusses giving customers the best of both worlds Reds hoist flag of glorious SDN internationale The packets, abstracted, will never be repeated, say Huawei and Red Hat Hardware News RIP Ralph Baer: Father of the games console dies aged 92 Obit Take a moment of silence before firing up your Xbox or PlayStation tonight PlayStation Network blasted offline AGAIN. Just not Sony's decade Lizard Squad: We did that, we did that! IBM Research wants laptop batteries to retire and slum it Old Li-IONs have enough roar to lighten up the lives of those living on dodgy grids Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here > Networks News GSMA denies latest Snowden leak No 'current' compromise, and our standards docs are public anyway Marky Mark & the techie bunch: We love you, China. Can Facebook 'n' Apple come over? Top Chinese interwebs man visits US: Boydroid, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos wax on with Lu Wei 18 million iPHONE USERS HAVE NEVER BONKED to ApplePay +Comment NFC chips lie unused Gigabit-over-copper VDSL successor G.fast signed off at last Curb your enthusiasm: this is a short-run tech best suited to the basement Security News Zombie POODLE wanders in, cocks leg on TLS How much is that doggy gonna hack you? Linux software nasty slithers out of online watering holes Windows-popping Trojan thought to be govt-built takes a bite from penguinistas Identity thieves slurp Sony Pictures staff info – as CEO sends 'don't sue me, bro' memo Attack 'unprecedented', claims Mandiant security Home Wi-Fi security's just as good as '90s PC security! Wait, what? 'Fess up: half of you lot haven't changed your default creds Manchester festival marketers fined £70,000 over spam ‘mum’ texts Especially offensive to complainants who'd just lost their mothers Orion hacker sends stowaway into SPAAAAACE Terrestrial attack packs p0wnload aboard sub-orbital flight Mighty Blighty filter tilter causes communications chaos No way to Hack a Day Kaspersky exposes SONY-CRIPPLING malware DETAILS Looks like Shamoon, quacks like Dark Seoul Software News 400,000 Windows Server 2003 boxes face SUPPORT DOOM Possible cloud storage revolution set for, er, Bastille Day 2015 G'Day Australia! Office 365 and Dynamics CRM bounce Down Under Throw that latency on the barbie and chuck me an ice-cold tube of 'productivity' Why, hello there, Foxy... BYE GOOGLE! Mozilla's browser is a video star Review Online face interface minus the vendor lock-in Linus Torvalds releases Linux 3.18 as 3.17 wobbles Seven release candidates is enough Science News NASA: If we'd landed Curiosity earlier it would have been underwater Hard evidence of Mars' moist past Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here >

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