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Daily Headlines 28 June 2013

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Business News UK sitting on top of at least FIFTY YEARS of shale gas – report Hey, let's reverse the pipelines and undercut the Russians! Labels to get, count them, 0.13 cents per play on Apple iRadio If the entire human race plays a tune, it makes ... $11m Channel News Daisy petals close around midge MoCo Engulfs another chunk of mobile-air space along with it Cloud News Ex-VMware ops chief floats over to Salesforce rival Hey, you, get offa my cloud That voice you hear from the cloud is Microsoft’s Unified communications as a service Data Centre News Oracle cranks up SuperCluster with Sparc T5 engines Anything Big Blue can do, Big Red can do cheaper – and better SanDisk pumps a few million into cloudy upstart Panzura Quietly extending tentacles into enterprise flash Kaminario: We can keep it up longer than other flash array bods Rolls out 7-year guarantee... but read the fine print Intel's taking a serious look at object storage. What's their game? Decoding Chipzilla's objective for long-term storage Speaking in Tech: I say 'software defined storage', you win the internet Podcast Buzzword abuse, data centres, er, unicorns and glitter and more... Virtualisation: Where are my savings? Webcast Live today at 11:00 BST Hardware News Google developing game console, smartwatch, new Q? So say those motormouthed 'people familiar with the matter' British lord sets new world electric vehicle speed record Video Former UK science minister crushes 39-year speed barrier MSX: The Japanese are coming! The Japanese are coming! Archaeologic The first would-be home computing standard... 30 years on Korean doctors: Smartphones really ARE doing your head in Warning from the future as gadget-mad Koreans get early onset dementia Networks News Dish DASHED: No Sprint, no Clearwire, no spectrum. No sale US satellite telly giant loses out UK.gov finally admits it will MISS superfast broadband target Spending Review Extra £250m of licence fee cash now to 'connect 95% by 2017' Radio hams tell Ofcom: Put that Wi-Fi mob back in their place They'll crowd us off the airwaves, huff beardy crew Help El Reg welcome our new boss Support our NBN study for the price of red undies Policy News Apple threatens ANOTHER Samsung patent lawsuit Legal beagles miffed at judge's refusal to add Galaxy S 4 to ongoing suit Obama says US won't scramble jets or twist arms for Snowden 'He's just a 29 year-old hacker' US cops make 'first ever' Bitcoin seizure following house raid Virtual currency confiscated from alleged drug dealer Osbo jacks up spending on spooks to keep us safe from TERROR Spending Review UK's chief purse-string-puller chucks cash at GCHQ et al Indian govt blocks 40 smut sites, forgets to give reason Don't mind us, we're just censoring your content for you... China's piracy watchdog to keep tabs on Amazon, Apple & co Authorities will keep a closer eye on more sites in ongoing crackdown Security News Facebook fix a bounty boon for researcher SMS hijack bug worth $US20k Cisco issues IronPort patch Vuln exposed systems to remote crash, takeover Secret US spy court lets Microsoft, Google reveal their petitions We'll see their pleas to be ungagged, no actual gags will be dropped Privacy activists sue FBI for access to facial recognition records Feds ignore FOIA queries about massive biometrics database Think you're streaming Superman? Think again, punk Slideshare hit by Man of Steel Spam sign-up scams Dancing Sepp Blatter on 'World Cup site' creates security flap Footy kingpin spotted throwing electronically doctored shapes Opera network cracked Malware signed with copied certificate Software News Windows 8.1: 'It's good for enterprises, too,' says Redmond Build 2013 Maybe this version won't get you laughed out of the office iOS7 headshaking interface revealed Face! Face! Face! Give beauty! Face! Welsh gov beats off Canada to hand £1m to Nintendo dev New R&D centre will create 60 jobs PayPal and SETI aim to go galactic with off-planet currency system In space, the tax-man might make you scream Science News German engineers demo ROBOT APE Knuckle-walking metal gorilla LOHAN cranks up old-school clockwork failsafe Rocket motor ignition back-up gets the tick-tock treatment Flippin' Equus! Unfeasibly old horse bone DNA triumph Gee-gee ancestor appeared 4 million years ago Throwing arms let humans rise above poo-flinging apes to play CRICKET Also baseball, while chimps can only play rounders and suchlike Oz's 2013 heatwave was man made Dancing on the edge of the bell curve Trick-cyclist's claim: I have FOUND how to get GIRLS INTO TECH Massive campaign of media lies ought to do it, says prof Bootnotes News Sean Parker: 'My fairy-tale wedding harmed no trees' Billionaire rails against journos, bloggers, and steelhead trout Stallman, Metcalfe, Andreessen, and Swartz added to Internet Hall of Fame Now to find an award's venue that isn't rioting WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again) A real piece of apocryphal computer history

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