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Daily Headlines 4 July 2013

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Business News Samsung slurps set-top streamer Boxee deal rumoured at $US30M Xobni! heads! to! Yahoo! elephant! graveyard! July 2014 EOL for most products Intel rumored to plunk $10bn down for Israeli fab expansion A whole lot of ticking and tocking US states: Google making ad money on illegal YouTube vids Blackmarket drugs, how-to-do-crime - it's all just content at the Chocolate Factory Yahoo! slurps! up! auto-shorteur! vidapp! Qwiki! Mulph. Feel a bit sick now with all this gobbling Apple TV 'close' to deal with Time Warner - report Hires senior Hulu sales exec to help it with big media negotiations Show us the money: Big Mike told to up his game if he wants Dell Carl: Icahn so afford to back mega-bid to take firm private Rest your head against a train window, hear VOICES in your SKULL 'Kill! No wait, give Rupert Murdoch some Monneyyy' Channel News O2 and Capita finally ink £1.2bn outsourcing deal 2,700 staffers shifted - everyone claims victory Government IT contracts to be scrutinised by UK competition watchdog How squeezed are small biz outfits who seek public sector deals? Cloud News Cloud computers are like bananas, says Deutsche Börse It's fungible, so let's funge it Data Centre News It's alive! Shared-nothing migration puts the spark into Hyper-V Freedom of movement Applied Micro, Mitac show off X-Gene ARM servers This is about more than ARM, it is about making hardware malleable Xyratex CEO: Don't judge us by our droopy revenues Our 'core businesses are making money' EMC's million-IOPS VNX2 monster delayed Revenues set to dip as result - analyst Oracle tunes up Enterprise Manager control freak for 12c database Plays nanny to Exalytics in-memory appliance Speaking in Tech: 'Wanna come upstairs and look at my VRTX?' Podcast Plus: Place a bet on Snowden's final destination Growing pile of biz sync 'n' share products try to differentiate EMC, ownCloud and Box have been polishing their offerings Who ate all the flash pie: Samsung, 'course, but hang on... GOOGLE? Some surprises in SSDS, all-flash array shipments Why all the fuss about flash? Pin your ears back and find out Flash storage webcast Stop bluffing and get the facts SanDisk buys dose of the SMARTs for $307m SSD consolidation speeds up EMC's ViPR is great ... for other vendors, at least Storagebod Amitabh Srivastava talks to our bod about object storage Hardware News Motorola teases with Moto X 'design your own' phone And it's sort-of 'Made in the USA' Fitbit Flex wristband: What to wear out when wearing yourself out Review Google Glass, iWatch, activity monitor.... you're halfway to RoboCop El Reg encounters mObi: R2-D2 for retailers Is this the 'droid Tesco is looking for? Networks News EE turns up speed knob EVEN FASTER on 4G spectrum You'll need to watch HD in fast forward to make any use of this Regulator sniffs mobile services bods: 'Something's off. Hand me the probe' PhonepayPlus says there's 'evidence' of ransomware-style marketing Broadband rivals 'pleased' over Ofcom's market shake-up plans. Maybe too pleased BT overjoyed by 'pricing freedom', TalkTalk says it's good for competition Policy News Boston U claims LED patent, files against tech giants Apple, Amazon, Samsung splattered by sueballs Dotcom, NZ PM clash over spy laws 'Why are you turning red, prime minister?' Bolivian president's jet grounded so officials can look for Snowden Austria: 'It's OK... he's not here' Software News AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite More mainstream support for rebellious developers Home Office opens up anonymised crime data API Please play with our less sensitive bits, UK gov tells mobe devs US State Department coughs up $630k for Facebook Likes Plus rogue manager left staff quivering in fear of the sack Science News Decade to 2010 was hottest, wettest: WMO Records reveal a procession of records Douglas Engelbart, PC pioneer and creator of the mouse, dies at 88 Obit We lost a great one Vulcan? Not on our tiny balls. Pluto moons named Kerberos, Styx Astronomers anger Shatner and Trekkies by ignoring public vote Modern-day Frankenstein invents CURE for BEHEADING Italian doctor claims to have workable noggin transplant technique Innovative solution to modern art found: Shoot it into space Meteorite-riddled Earthlings to finally return fire at the universe

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