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Business News Destination Korea: an emerging market for IT services Outsourcers set to look East for $16 BILLION market Microsoft CIO bails out to pursue "personal projects" Farwell, Tony Scott, we hardly knew ye BT! dumps! Yahoo! after! 10! long! years! together! Sorry Marissa, but news and email? We can go elsewhere for that... 'Nothing will convince a kid that's never worn glasses to wear them' QuotW And 'Larry Page doesn't give a damn about you' Cloud News AWS peers into soul of Load Balancers for DNS failover Route 53 DNS service gets much-requested feature El Reg drills into Office365: Mass email migration Hands-on with Trevor Data Centre News Cisco nearly ready with next giant router The terabit-per-slot barrier may soon be behind us WD shuns flash, plonks enlarged racks on shelf Macs, PCs? It's all the same to us... BOFH: Go on, beancounter, type DROP TABLE asset; Episode 4 He went Colonel Kurtz on me, boss Drobo makes 'reductions' ahead of Connected Data merge Layoffs due to 'staff overlaps in some sales channels' - Barrall Hardware News Elon Musk pledges transcontinental car juicers by end of year Mars, warp drives a little further off Film crew plans dig to find lost burial ground of Atari's E.T. Deep in the desert, ancient cartridges await Microsoft offers free keyboard covers for Surface RT Updated Is that desperation we smell? Fear the Embarrassing Bodies webcam Something for the Weekend, Sir? Fibre is essential if you want a hi-def willy Galaxy Tab 3 10.1: Samsung plays Intel against ARM Next tablet will have Intel Atom inside Review: Pure Jongo S3 multiroom speakers Furniture music Networks News Optus: Australian telcos are RUBBISH No wonder customers hate us Asbestos finds interrupt NBN preparations Updated Telstra calls in PwC, government calls in Telstra, politics calls in NBN Co You need to get serious about 4G coverage, Ministry of Fun told One database to rule them all? A Bluetooth door lock that puts the kettle on? NOW we're in the future If you don't mind wiring your bolts to the internet Policy News Netherlands Supremes squash iPad design patent If mugs can tell the difference, it's not a copy, says Dutch court Court orders Feds to hand evidence over to Kim Dotcom NZ cops snatched Megaupload info in 'illegal' raids China ponders joining controversial IP trade treaty Trans-Pacific Partnership proposes copyright extensions, patent silliness UN report says killer bots could fight WAR WITHOUT END Moratorium proposed on development and use of lethal autonomous robots Security News TSA: Perv scanners now fully banished from US airports New machines spot targets, not todgers Motorola shows off tattoo and swallowable password hardware Mobe manufacturer playing long game for end times 'Syrian Electronic Army' fails to crack Israeli water system Pro-Assad hacktivists foiled, says former cyber security chief Apple's two-factor security isn't as good as Microsoft or Google's, say experts 'Weakest of all the major tech firms' Google gives vendors seven-day bug disclosure deadline Chocolate Factory appoints self judge, jury, and executioner Software News Groundbreaking Camino browser digs grave, jumps in Sprightly when Mac OS X was young. Now, not so much Minty fresh Linux: Olivia hits the virtual shelves More MintSource, vicar? Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button And to leave halfway through the Win 8 rollout Google nuke thyself: Mountain View's H.264 righteous flame-out How MPEG LA tamed a giant - and will again Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat Linux gives coders claws for thought Review Version 19 beta: Still alive or dead on arrival? Science News Finally – mind-controlled limbs without brain surgery Neural-interface tech gives wounded soldier a hand (and arm) Kinky? You're mentally healthier than 'vanilla' bonkers Study: Whips + clips + cuffs + collars = wholesome 'recreational leisure' Sacred islet Rockall defeats Brit adventurer Back to Scotland for Nick Hancock and his survival podule Sacred islet Rockall repels Brit adventurer's first assault Attempt to land life podule for lengthy stay thwarted New EXPLICIT pics support notion of moist, welcoming past for Mars Curiosity's pebbly beach snaps reveal the wetness 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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