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Business News STEC CEO on crappy Q4: 'Obviously, we’re kind of bottoming out' Fallen flash star seeks hope in channel, OEM upswing Doxer who? Toxic site drops offline after exposing Paris Hilton's privates Major US credit agency Equifax confirms fraud Rackspace: Why we're designing our own cloud servers Exclusive Just what will it take to compete with Amazon and Google Alibaba! could! hand! back! Yahoo! China! to Yahoo! in! May! Report claims Chinese web bazaar wants to offload ailing portal Channel News Intel and pals shrink their semis by $600m as demand droops PC processor stocks cut, 4G mobile chips soar The reshaping of Apple-cored Square: Leaving high street is a GOOD sign Feature Retail? We've heard of it Lenovo: Windows 8 is so good, everyone wants Windows 7 We'll just leave Redmond's latest OS on this DVD, over here. When you want it Flooding market with cheap antivirus kit isn't going to help ANYONE Not the reseller, not the vendor and especially not the user IT contractors lose thousands as 2e2 collapse hits recruiter Populo Resourcing shuts up shop Capita IT Services healing Hands make mark on biz Restructure to cut role duplication and bureaucracy Cloud News Are your servers PETS or CATTLE? Update Cloudy metaphor separates the sheep from the goats Data Centre News Juniper goes skinny to pack routers into little racks A central office router staff won't trip over Hadoop distie MapR trousers another $30m to take on big data rivals Working towards that eventual IPO, if it isn't eaten first SwiftStack sucks up $6.1m, leaps through curtains with 'Amazon S3-in-a-box' Comes out of stealth with OpenStack-based object storage system Nvidia, Continuum team up to sling Python at GPU coprocessors GTC 2013 Teaching snakes to speak CUDA with forked tongue, but not forked code How Fusion-io redlined its PCIe flash motor to hit 9.6 MEEELION IOPS 64-byte writes ought to be enough for anybody Cloudfather Tucci meets with EMC clan, analysts to talk strategy Storage control, SDN, flash and cloud editions Hardware News 4K video may wow vidiots, but content creators see pitfalls GTC 2013 Skyrockets studio storage costs, strangles editing bandwidth BlackBerry CEO: iPhone past its prime Aging user interface deserves 'respect' – just like your granddaddy Build a BONKERS gaming PC Feature Money to burn? Put it to use building a monstrously powerful games rig SanDisk cops to malfunctioning Micro SDs in Galaxy S3s Offers fix for fandroids' fried flash cards BlackBerry CEO: Our vibrating devices will satisfy most needs You'll soon tire of hefty laptops 'n' slabs Networks News Has the ACCC tripped up in its ADSL declaration? Virtual circuits for ADSL are way too expensive: The Register tallies up the numbers Fujitsu pulls a muscle, drops out of race for £530m broadband pot BT now ONLY bidder for UK taxpayer-funded fibre jobs Freeview suddenly UNWATCHABLE dross? It may just be a 4G test Mobe broadband fired up to stress telly transmissions rather than show quality Celebrity conspiracy as Apple attacked over customer service '8:20 Party' of Chinese celebs all posted anti-Apple comments at same time Policy News Supreme Court silence seals Thomas-Rasset's file sharing fate $220,000 slap for 24 songs shared stands UK's 'Nobel prize for engineering' given to 'inventors of the interwebs' Nothing more important has been done lately Britain's passport and ID service seeks facial recog tech suppliers Contract worth up to £16m over five years Security News Infosec boffins meet to plan nuke plant hack response International Atomic Energy Agency promises a glowing report Caught on camera: Fujitsu touts anti-terrorist pulse-taking tech The doctor will see you now... EA Origin vuln puts players at risk Game platform allows remote exploits, millions vulnerable Grey-hat gets 41 months in prison for exposing iPad user's privates 'Internet will topple governments,' defendant proclaims Software News Microsoft begins automatic Windows 7 SP1 rollout You will be assimilated SimCity owners get free game Updated Maxis/EA 'we're sorry' giveaway includes SimCity 4 Facebook promotes engineering veep to CTO 'Unique and important' bloke kicked upstairs Google Drive goes titsup for MILLIONS of users Steered into ditch, wheels still spinning Microsoft cuts to core on BizTalk Server price hike April changes slip loose Microsoft issues manual on Brits to Cambridge exports No guns, dead dogs, or realtors allowed. Welcome to the Third World Science News World's largest solar collection plant opened in Abu Dhabi 100Mw system testing commercial viability Bootnotes News Bottomless, unsatisfied Xbox widow cuffed after boyf flees nookie Pantless woman arrested by rubbish bin 'anticipated sex'

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