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Business News Amazon yoinks Dora and SpongeBob from Netflix for MEELLLIONS Are you ready, kids? 'Cos we paid a lot for this Penguin chief: Apple's ebook plan 'dramatically changed' market Steve Jobs 'certainly a factor' in gouging retailers, court told It's a fiddle! Funnyman's Irish tax flashmob floods Apple flagship store Updated Dozens of protesters have some craic in London BBC boffins ponder abstruse Ikea-style way of transmitting telly 'What's it supposed to be, dad?' 'Leave your father alone' Cloud News El Reg drills into Office 365: The science of compliance Review Hands on with Trevor Data Centre News Big Switch Networks quits OEM-led SDN scheme 'Goliath beat me up,' says David. 'What did you expect,' says world Calxeda lines up ODM partners for EnergyCore ARM server chips Computex Gigabyte, Foxconn, and Aaeon forge web and storage servers AMD chalks up Opteron X design win on HP Moonshot hyperscale system HP is getting to Kyoto ahead of AMD's SeaMicro biz Dell's new Compellent will make you break down in tiers... of flash FS8600 pops hottest data into the fastest slots Let's get graphical with Hyper-V Review Trevor scripts up some GUI admin tools Hardware News Intel unzips new Atom phone chip: Low power, fast - is that right, ARM? Computex 2013 Merrifield brain talks the talk ... Can lightning strike twice? Intel has another crack at Thunderbolt Chipzilla doubles speed to 20Gbps. Checkmate, USB 3 New Tosh 'droid slabs include Newton-like scrawl-pad: We try it out Pics Sso howw's mmy writtingss? In ynor faace Stteeve Joibbs ha ha oopps Thirty-five years ago today: Space Invaders conquer the Earth Antique Code Show Bleep Bleep PEW Bleep Bleep PEW PEW BLEEP BLEEP Leaks point to new mystery Macs 'with Jony Ive's fingerprints on' Fruity booty for fanbois expected at WWDC Pen+tablet bandwagon finally rolling, NVIDIA leaps aboard The moving finger, having writ, has moved on? Fairphone hits sales target for 'PC' phone 5,000 folks sign up for ethically-designed smartphone Networks News FreedomPop aims to gut US wireless oligopoly with free smartphone Freemium VoIP model piggybacks on Sprint BSkyB-owned BE slams into traffic pile-up over 'unlimited' broadband lie Brits punished for downloading too much? Sounds more like 'limited', says ASA Policy News Copyright troll Prenda Law accused of seeding own torrents Web of companies formed an end-to-end production, piracy and lawsuit-filing machine Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers The Patriot Act strikes again Telstra mulling asbestos-free future 'Will consider' complete removal Lonely G-Cloud wanders in search of crowd o'er UK.gov vales and hills See that £22m? Would have been £130m+ without us Security News Spooks nicking your tech? What you need is THE CLOUD - NSA boss CyCon 2013 Nation states pilfering blueprints, Pope still Catholic NATO defence ministers agree: This cyber business is very serious More jaw-jaw needed before a war-war, though Big Brother? Social networks are far worse, says Estonian president CyCon 2013 Not even the Stasi had data like Facebook A couple of whitepapers about SIEM Promo The big security data challenge Space boffins, oil giants, nuke plants 'raided' by MYSTERY code nasty Spain, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, this malware has had quite a trip, we're told Signatures no good at protecting databases, says Juniper A cookie, a box, a stick and a string can trap attackers Software News BlackBerry wants to see rivals' phones with BBM preinstalled Seen as 'not a risk' to own handset sales Never mind WinRT: Tiny Win8 slabs will ship with free Office, too Suite to be bundled with 8-inch devices or smaller IBM blesses NoSQL upstart MongoDB Big Blue pulls MongoDB JSON-querying into DB2, WebSphere Microsoft video preview shows Windows 8.1 tablet UI options Video Tiny tiles and pretty personalization tools Microsoft parades Windows 8.1, the version you may actually want Computex 2013 Outlook, Office, Start button Internet pioneer Vint Cerf predicts the future, fears Word-DOCALYPSE Big data? More like big problems for our grandchildren Microsoft waves white flag: We'll put Outlook on Windows RT slabs Now we're cooking on gas, IT bosses sigh HP reinvents intranets as cloudy managed services Yet another response to CIOs with iPads and workers who want Dropbox Science News Curiosity prepares for year-long road trip to Mount Sharp Some interesting stops planned along the way MIND CONTROL HAT makes CHOPPER do what BRAIN says 'An aperture! Go into it' - can students think anything else? Boffins build gesture recognition using WiFi 'HELP! Every time I move, the lights go out!' Bootnotes News Apple claims shot in arm for Cupertino from new Fruit Loop HQ Doughnut? Spaceship? We beg to differ Reg readers: So, who will be Who? It's over to you... Nominations needed for next Time Lord Germans purge selves of indigestible 63-letter word 'Bulp. Blorp. RkReUAUG! RkReUAUG! Phew, that feels better'

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