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Daily Headlines 11 October 2013

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Business News Microsoft wants to 'move beyond' the Cookie Monster After all, people are getting wise to deleting those Office wage slaves face extinction at hands of ROBOTS - if bosses listen to Gartner Color us skeptical Will BlackBerry be cherrypicked, or bought by its daddies? Build it and and you will come ... back Aereo finds new way to ENRAGE TV barons: An app for Android things And it bags another legal win, this time in Boston Citrix share price tumbles on profit warning CEO 'disappointed' but not as much as Wall Street WikiLeaker-in-chief Assange refuses to meet Benedict Cumberbatch 'Leaked' *cough* email says Julian wanted nothing to do with 'wretched' film Twitter-mad twits trade 14 million shares in BANKRUPT zombie biz Excitable investors push 'Tweeter' shares up 750% Channel News Azzurri backers write off MILLIONS in debts - AGAIN Refinanced voice and data biz plans fresh cloudy platform Data Centre News Now Amazon dangles fat freebies to lure hungry upstarts into its server lair Uncle Bezos' cloud sirens spaff more profit in war with Microsoft Ubuntu JuJu voodoo casts Linux on Microsoft's Azure hoodoo For wizards who want to run Linux in Linux on Windows HDS gives EMC and NetApp a good benchmark kicking EMC, how's that 'Speed 2 Lead' campaign working out? Rest of world can now get hold of IBM's secret China-only storage tech 22 announcements... Big Blue's been busy WD Sentinel DS 6100: What does a disk-peddler know about servers? Exclusive review The Register finds out, with world's first hands-on of WD's SMB NAS filer Amazon wrapping FireTube tellybox for Christmas – reports Rumoured set-top box may be ready to ship by the holidays NASty boy of storage WD now flogging servers too HDD legend enters general Xeon server business Do-it-yourself Dropbox: Western Digital's My Cloud 2TB NAS box Review Easy-peasy network storage with handy remote access HP: Classic storage? Nah. They'll eat glommed store+serve gloop in '14 And what the heck happened to Memristor? Free Azure training at 11am BST today Broadcast Don't miss it Video thrilled the radio star: Tracking the history of magnetic tape Feature Part three... That's entertainment Hardware News Post-PC world? POST-MAC WORLD more like Peak Apple Big five PC makers all GREW sales except Team Cook 21st Century Elite remake to support Oculus Rift virtual reality rig Immerse yourself in your Cobra Mark III cockpit Microsoft sold out of Surface tablets in the UK... YEP, all 2,000 units No word yet on Blighty channel expansion plans Networks News Facebook rips away your ability TO HIDE Zuck it up, folks - now anyone can find you T-Mobile FREES AMERICANS to roam world sans terrifying charges Downtrodden digital peasants liberated ... by the Germans BT Mobile inks network deal with EE, dumps Vodafone Former state monopolies snuggle together for warmth Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee: DRMed HTML least of all evils 'None of us as users' like it very much... Google's Wi-Fi not good enough for its home town Mountain View fed up with poor connectivity, installs hotspots Apple seeks engineer who knows way around China Mobile network Draws close to deal to net 750 MEELLION potential fanbois – report Policy News Brace yourselves, telcos: Ofcom triples cost of 2G spectrum holdings They knew it was coming... NHS tears out its Oracle Spine in favour of open source Health authority parachutes in Riak, Redis to save on dosh & screwups Payday loans firm rapped for failing to register with Info Commissioner Director and biz fined over data privacy regs breach Blighty's National Crime Agency nabs first crook ...for £750k cyberscam 'Britain's FBI' claims credit for catching snaffler of 700 online bank accounts Shadowy drug fans threaten FBI agents, vow to 'avenge' Silk Road shutdown How dare lawmen close our illegal underground online drug shop? Security News Moscow cops cuff suspect in Blackhole crimeware bust $50-a-day malware kit set miscreants back more than priciest software licence Site News Reg readers: El Reg introduces inline comment voting Site news Forum bugbear addressed (at last) Software News MacBook Airs in Black Screen of DEATH terror: Apple responds No, paranoid fanbois, display failure wasn't punishment for installing Windows Microsoft TechDays Online: block out your calendar Free training for devs and pros on Nov 6-8 Wanted: New software dev platform. Where do I turn to? Readers' corner We're on Win32 - where next? The legacy IE survivor's guide: Firefox, Chrome... more IE? Ask yourself, how many times do you want to rewrite? Amazon lures in Kindle Fire devs: Promises fame across devices Bezos to dole out 'enhanced merchandising' in Xmas runup Firefox OS update adds performance, polish to Mozilla's webby mobes We're not giving up, you know Science News Ravenous dwarf sucks life-giving juices from unfortunate victim Watery discovery 150 million light years away points to exoplanetary habitability Excessive wind bothers solar racers' rear ends World Solar Challenge The winners bask as 14 teams battle the desert Elephants understand pointing, but don't think it rude Not so Dumbo, pachyderm pointing study reveals Australian solar challengers lead two race classes World Solar Challenge Team Aurora and University of New South Wales rock the world Boffins find LOST WORLD roaming interstellar void ALONE Orbiting nothing, wandering homeless, 80 light years away That 'DIAMOND SUPER EARTH' may actually be WORTHLESS ball of gas Priceless planet could be filled with hot air - literally

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