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Daily Headlines 5 March 2013

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Business News World spent $3.6 TREEELLION on ICT in 2012 - analyst Hardware bods should watch out though, there's CANNIBALS about Huawei CEOs are 'migratory birds' Three of them flapping about is better than one Google revs Motorola innovation with Guy Kawasaki hire 'Apple Fellow' to provide excitement lessons for staid mobes unit Channel News Tech Data pops champers, aims to rinse nasty FY '13 aftertaste Bottle slips from nerveless hands after financials seen Dell slaps back at HP after Meg's 'uncertainty' diss: You're flip-floppers IT firms swap insults in effort to woo partners Logicalis coughs up €24m for 2e2's Euro ops Rescue deal for the bit that didn't go titsup Cloud News Microsoft acquires cloud monitor MetricsHub Fosters and borgs company in 5 months IBM builds next-gen cloud control freak on OpenStack Riding out of Folsom on a Grizzly to a Smart(er)Cloud AWS promotes Trusted Advisor, its Clippy-in-the-cloud 'It looks like you're spinning up an instance, need any help with that?' EMC: No need to swallow an array - just breathe in our storage cloud Storagebod VMAX more about pricing than tech Data Centre News Mellanox to open up its Ethernet networking stack Time for Ethernet to steal something else – open source – from InfiniBand MapR smashes MinuteSort benchmark on Google Compute Puts Hadoop Big Data muncher back on top of Microsoft Violin Memory fires PCIe server card salvoes at rival Fusion-io Tag teams Toshiba in data-centre storage rumble EMC touts screeching Hawq SQL performance for Hadoop With Hive in one claw and an Impala in the other Pricey mainframes, hyperscale boxes boost Q4 server sales Unix machinery, er, not so much NetApp could use Microsoft to beat off VMware's virtual tool Blocks and Files You're not the only one with a VSA, you know Hey, PCIe flash makers. Look behind you - it's Samsung South Korean giant fancies a wodge of NAND cache action Hardware News Samsung's next smartphone to scroll by watching your eyes Chalk up one more Galaxy trick that the iPhone can't perform Apple iWatch: Coming soon, runs iOS, to earn mucho mazuma Rumor mill spins at light speed Global smartphones sales set to outpace standard handsets in 2013 Some Western vendors living in interesting times Apple: OK, we tracked your every move... but let's call it a caching bug, m'kay? It's a T&C question, not privacy invasion - Apple tells court Sony: Can't beat Apple and Samsung, so let's be the Other Guy C'mon. We could totally take on Huawei Inside Lord Sugar's 'you're fired' YouView bust-up with TV baron Apprentice head honcho quits telly box biz Seagate takes 7.2k notebook drives out back - and shoots them Disk-only gear killed, clears way for flashy mutants BlackBerry Z10: Prices pruned despite eager iPunter interest Are enough iPhone and Android fans hopping on board to revive the former RIM? New Japanese craze: Knickers for iPhones' nether regions iFronts, anyone? O2 pops out vital new feature: Making phone calls from phones TU Go VoIP app goes live Networks News Pirate Bay 'seeks asylum' in North Korea Digital backwater an unlikely home for bandwidth-hungry site 4G operators move into new homes in the spectrum 'hood Another £27m changes hands NTT Docomo leads 5G push with 10Gbps uplink tests Ultra-super-fast mobile data services on the way 'Google Maps' of US White Space spectrum goes LIVE Mountain view trials database now - before 16Mbps devices are EVERYWHERE... Policy News Australia ratifies cybercrime convention Think of the children - and the IP owners White House comes out in favor of legal mobe unlocking FCC: Lockdown 'doesn't pass the common sense test' Opposition leader raises ‘your Internet will cost you more’ spook NBN will be ‘three times the current price’: Tony Abbott Queen of Tech City says she will decide what Tech City does soon now It's not a place, it's a movement. No, not a bowel one Japanese govt: Use operator-run app stores, not Google Play Info-stealing sexy wallpaper app was downloaded 500,000 times on official site Security News Oracle trowels more plaster over flawed Java browser plugin Emergency patches issued for two more exploits Report: Danish government hits Microsoft with $1bn tax bill In the old days they would have come with a longboat Banged-up Brit hacker hacks into his OWN PRISON'S 'MAINFRAME' Packet lag signed up for IT classes in the clink WHY would survey-slingers give YOU a free $1,500 Google Glass? 34bangbang_fun@imail.ru wants sir/madam as a beta tester. Oh ok, carry on then Need an army of killer zombies? Yours for just $25 per 1,000 PCs Bring out your dead - there's a price per botnet head New class of industrial-scale super-phishing emails threatens biz Bulk messages are highly targeted and able to slip past defences Software News Canonical announces Mir display server to replace X Windows Plans to rewrite Ubuntu's GUI from ground up NoSQL Cassandra gets SQL overlay Use SQL over CQL – if you've got the cash Microsoft offers developer tools for its lonely Office Store Visual Studio kit for building Office add-ons exits preview FoundationDB uncloaks ACID-compliant NoSQL beta Lets developers have infinite cake and eat it in ACID-compliant bites Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc Review Um Bongo boss Shuttleworth offers 'incognito' mode for your desktop PC Microsoft parts clouds over Bing Maps with massive sat pic upgrade Adds ocean floor detail too Science News US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas 'Increased heart rate and respiration' pollutes Washington US gov cash slash threatens manned trips to asteroids and Mars NASA chief warns budget cuts could stall space exploration Belgian boffins find colossal meteorite 18kg rock is largest Antarctic meteorite find since 1988 SpaceX Dragon eventually snared by ISS Time to call in the roadies

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