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Business News Zynga deactivates 500+ employees in major layoff 18 per cent of workforce begin to play 'find jobs' game Snappers binned, mobe-armed hacks drafted at Chicago paper Even Edison Carter got a decent camera Amazon faces its third strike in Germany Employees stop work for better pay and benefits Apple in Big Apple dock: iPhone goliath starts ebook price-fix trial Still nothing to do with us, insists Cupertino Apple declares WAR on Spotify: iRadio bags streaming rights We knew you were trouble when you walked in Doctor Who? 12th incarnation sought after Matt Smith quits 'Spectacular exit' promised for Time Lord Ex-Microsoft man plans brand of consumer marijuana 'fine cigars' Puff the magic, drag on one of these Channel News Think your IT department's parochial? Try selling to SMEs Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs Cloud News Report: IBM protests Amazon $600m CIA cloud contract Amazon: 'We're changing IT!' Big Blue: 'Release the lawyers!' Google plumps up one-click mobile cloud Mobile Backend Starter revs Android apps El Reg drills into Office 365: User device and management Vid Trevor Pott gets out the screwdriver Data Centre News EU-US nets get 100 Gbps Atlantic connection Educational networks get fast link Microsoft: Our clouds don't bleed you to death TechEd And VMware's hybrid cloud doesn't make any sense Oi, small biz! Attach our Syncro to your storage, says LSI Another vendor goes down the Windows Storage Server route Beijing cluster brawlers warm up for undergrad cluster tussle HPC blog Chinese invasion: HUST and 3-time winners Tsinghua head to Leipzing PowerShell daddy on Windows Server 2012 R2: Cloudy cloud cloud TechEd Control the whole stack and cloud's just an 'OS problem' Microsoft opens kimono on Server 2012 R2 at steamy Orleans bash TechEd Private clouds, Azure-by-the-minute EVE Online OFFLINE: Wannabe Capt Kirks clobbered in cluster-ruck Updated Server plugs pulled as aliens sink nerds' battleships Easy rip'n'replace storage using cheap kit? Nooooo, wail vendors Hardware sales peeps are in for a rough ride Hardware News Foxconn signs on to build Firefox OS devices for clients 'Wide-ranging partnership' with Mozilla announced Inside Intel's Haswell: What do 1.4 BEELLION transistors get you? Feature The brains and the brawn of the next Windows 8 slabs Asus boasts of Haswell fondleslab threesome to get Acer hot under collar Computex 2013 It's an Atom Android tablet - wait, it's a Win8 i7 notebook Relax, Hollywood, ARM's got your back: New chip 'thwarts' video pirates Phone GPU shields 1080p footage 'from download to display' Firefox OS: Go away fanbois, fandroids - you wouldn't understand Hands-on Repeat after me: developers, developers, developers, developers... Acer kicks off Computex with tabs and phabs Computex 2013 New portable options could appeal to corporate users Networks News Twitter, Facebook are 'a MENACE to society', says Turkey's PM Nowt to do with tweets revealing huge anti-gov riots Vodafone set to splurge £2.5 MEELLION a DAY building 4G network Forget super-fast, this is ultra-uber-mega fast Steelie Neelie wants roaming charges gone by Easter 2014 Europe's 'economic disaster' will be eased by cheaper calls says web head Policy News Sites to 'close' for China's 'Internet maintenance day' Syadmins supposedly getting busy … on anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre Prosecutor on Private Manning's Wiki-leaks: 'Arrogance meets access' Soldier charged with 'aiding the enemy' as court martial begins Ecuador: Let's talk about not having Julian Assange on our sofa Blighty's Foreign Sec mulls invitation for coffee and a chat Security News Look out, fanbois! EVIL charger will inject FILTH into your iPHONE Avoid putting strange plugs into your slot My bleak tech reality: You can't trust anyone or anything, anymore Opinion Two-factor authentication? Fine, if you trust the Feds Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it 'All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience' Oracle to lop off Java's least secure bits to save servers More frequent patches, finer controls, planned Software News Google seeks to calm facial recognition furor with app block for Glass Nothing to see here, yet Microsoft touts business features of Windows 8.1 TechEd It's not all about the Start button, as it turns out Microsoft buys InRelease for app building toolbox TechEd Shows off impending Visual Studio, Team Foundation releases Microsoft SQL Server 14 man: 'Nothing stops a Hekaton transaction' TechEd In-memory tables and native code stored procedures on the way How Microsoft shattered Gnome's unity with Windows 95 Feature Who needs prior art when you've got lawyers? Science News Mars Express' 10th birthday celebrated with Martian atlas Jury-rigged and underfunded, ESA veteran still has it where it counts Graphene QUILT: A good trampoline for elephants in stiletto heels Wonder stuff's real-world weakness not for real - boffins Quantum boffins send data ACROSS TIME AND SPACE Destroyed photon communicates with another that didn't exist at the time Top 10 SIEM implementer's checklist An automated discovery driven approach that shortens your path to comprehensive monitoring and prevents security blind spots. Download here

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