Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei' [Fri Jan 9 2015]

Daily Headlines 9 January 2015

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Business News Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook Because that's so much more civilized than shooting people US kills EU watchdog's probe into EU cops sharing EU citizens' data Report sought on banking records handed over to the Feds Peak Samsung: Bottom line walloped in Chinese mobe, slab war Q4 profit down '37 per cent' ... but that's still a tidy £3.1bn Users shun UK.gov flagship digital service 'Service so good' NO ONE USES IT. Money well spent, eh? Lube company merger receiving second 'in-depth' probe Durex, KY union leaving smaller players without any action - CMA Tesco preps for Big Data Engine dump: Laters, Clubcard dev Retailer parts ways with Dunnhumby UK.gov prompt payment promise is POPPYCOCK - NAO Trickle-down economics ain't happening for subbies Channel: IBM stamps us into the dirt in race for cloudy glory Direct salesmen tap up customers, claim partners Tesco tosses loss-making Blinkbox into TalkTalk's basket Oh, BTW, please take our fixed line and broadband too EU net neutrality: Don’t worry, we’re now safely in the hands of … Latvia Talk of 'compromise' makes telcos happy. Euro Parliament, not so much BAN email footers – they WASTE my INK, wails Ctrl+P MP Bill will now be printed thanks to Parliamentary rules Dread Pirate Roberts' defence holed below the waterline Judge scuppers attempt to maroon some charges for supposed Silk Road skipper Data Centre News SanDisk opens its cages, sets its mutants FREE Spins off borged NextGen amid 'not core business' spiel Sphere 3D: Our pop-out 2TB disk product? Of COURSE it's rugged Tape cartridge replacement Get your special 'sound-optimising' storage here, hipsters Comment If you believe that, you'll believe anything.... Samsung’s SUPER-speedy SSD is a real power-sipper 512GB drive draws a TINY 2mW: Yes, that's two milliwatts Cray, IBM to boost NOAA's super powers Nine month upgrade to deliver five PETAFLOPS of grunt Hardware News CES 2015: The good, the mad and the pointless Breaking Fad Coming to a living room near you – yikes! Frontier wipes credit of Elite: Dangerous 'billionaire' badboys What you gonna do when they come for you Funster drone jock? Please don’t be a twit – US industry group CES 2015 Insists: We commercial bods stick to rules Notebook news: Dell does density, but Lenovo's a lot lighter CES 2015 Laptop season brings a pair of intriguing new models Behold your future coworkers of the future: remote-control face-bots CES 2015 Sheldon Cooper goes to Las Vegas Networks News So: Will we get net neutrality? El Reg decodes FCC boss Tom Wheeler Analysis Look like it's gonna be Title II – but what flavor? Broadband isn't broadband unless it's 25Mbps, mulls FCC boss 4Mbit/s no longer cutting the mustard Security News Ukraine PM: Hacktivists? C'mon! Russian spies attacked Gov.DE Bundestag, Merkel websites blockaded for hours Euro Parliament: Time to rethink DRIP, other snoop laws Report says all blanket data retention violates EU rights Sony boss: Nork megahack won't hurt our bottom line O RLY, says top securo-bod with calculator Police radios will be KILLED soon – yet no one dares say 'Huawei' Why 4G is no solution for emergency services Pastebin: The remote backdoor server for the cheap and lazy Web clipboard should be a mainstay of enterprise blacklists Cryptowall's ransomware's tough layers peeled Cisco researchers reveal cunning crypto and 64-bit emulation tricks Thunderstrike shocks OS X with firmware bootkit Permanent backdoor affects all Macs packing Thunderbolt ports Software News Latest NORKS Linux and Android distros leak They've gone TOO FAR this time with Mac OS and Angry Birds ripoffs Not app-y with VAT: Apple hikes prices in Europe, Canada Cupertino gives $10bn to devs but something's upset the Apple cart Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all Comment Enough of the stand-up meetings please, just WRITE SOME CODE Windows XP beats 8.1 in December market share stats Merry Christmas, Satya Nadella Hang on a second – Time Lords have added one to 2015 Brace yourself for software SNAFUs in July Science News Come relax on exoplanet Kepler-16b, says NASA: Boffins open 'space travel bureau' Pics With neat posters in a 1930s style Hey, bacteria: Resistance is FUTILE – boffins grow new super-antibiotic Drug could save millions of lives lost to killer microbes

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