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Business News Google gearing up for 4K video frenzy at CES CES 2014 Potent partners sign up for VP9 streaming push Google poised to become world's first TREEELLION DOLLAR company? Not as insane as you might think, says moneyman Jokesters develop new cryptocurrency using Kanye West's FACE Think Bitcoin is dodgy? Try out this digital funny money Pinterest who? EU rules social network CAN'T trademark its own name You guys were nonentities in 2011, say apparatchiki Thanks for the memories, but I'm off: Violin COO Dixon Doll hits eject Third bigwig out the door in a month You're spending WHAT on iPhone 6? Wells Fargo downgrades Apple stock Spending on new phone components and slowing market could hit profit margins Microsoft tries to trademark 'Mod' in the US 50 shades of Metro No-tro Seoul-blackening disappointment for Samsung backers as stock droops Analysts predict an end to record growth as Korean currency strengthens IBM spends holiday season wrangling e-tail FAIL Update WebSphere-powered site at Oz department store chain takes the week off HP: We're axing 29,000 workers? Add another 5,000 to that Happy New Year, everyone Data Centre News VMware hints at future directions with boffin cash dangle $150k on offer to research 'large-scale, geo-distributed, data-intensive services' Parting the clouds for IT admins: We chat to CloudPhysics Part 1: Kabuki theatre with sales and pre-sales Data rescue lifeguard Zerto surfs in on single pane of glass It's what the cloudy customers want from their recovery-ware BEAM ME UP... twice: No local storage on Transporter Sync Connected: Never fear, we plan to add local library soon Blame Silicon Valley for the NSA's data slurp... and what to do about it Comment Hive mind gloop and legal sophistry paved the way Glassholes, snapt**ts, #blabbergasms, selfies and PRISM: The Reg's review of 2013 Year in Review 12 months in 26 characters Hardware News Acer cozies up to Google with new 'droid PCs and fondleslab, Chromebook CES 2014 Will debut new kit in Vegas BlackBerry sues American Idol host's company for 'blatant' patent infringement 'Mr. Seacrest, your taste in keyboards flatters us, but we need cash, not compliments' Alicia Keys throws in towel on BlackBerry's creative director job Chanteuse ditches dying handset maker - or did they ditch her? Ten classic electronic calculators from the 1970s and 1980s Retro roundup Lo-tech delights for button-pushers worldwide iPhone fanbois outsmart fandroids in totally reliable test of brain power Bad luck AGAIN, BlackBerry bods Now THAT'S a sunroof: Solar-powered family car emerges from Ford labs CES 2014 Sun-juiced motors no longer limited to experimental outback oddities Only iPhone fondling rose at Xmas: Were non-Apple fans in a turkey coma? Admen report: Biggest loser was Samsung – but tablets are another story Haswell micro: Intel’s Next Unit of Computing desktop PC Review It's a NUC-ing beauty..... Acer C720 Chromebook with Haswell battery boosting goodness Review Fancy a virus-free, always updated 2014? Coming in 2014: Scary super-soldier exoskeleton suits from the US military Iron Man-esque armor prototypes next year, deployment in 2018 Networks News Chocolate Factory plans Oz Loon trials: reports Google cosies up to carriers for Tasmanian test AT&T takes aim at T-Mobile with $450 cashback lure Begun the Phone War has Facebook bots grope our 'privates', and every wronged user should get $10,000 – lawsuit claims Allegations over message scanning 'without merit' Coca Cola slurps millions of MAC addresses Alert! E-cup 29-97-09-3B-31-92 just filled with PEPSI! Quick guide to disaster recovery in the cloud Assisting IT directors and managers in creating and implementing the most effective cloud-based disaster recovery strategy for their organization. Download here > Policy News Silk Road suspect Ross Ulbricht 'teaching yoga' while awaiting trial Facebook backers: He's rolling out the mat for fellow inmates WikiLeaks Party meets Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad Assange-aligned party 'Shining a light on injustice' by taking tea with dictator So, which people you read about in The Register got gongs in the Honours list? Trollhunter General, Nathan Barleys figure prominently Security News Hacker backdoors Linksys, Netgear, Cisco and other routers Does anyone take consumer security seriously? US BACKDOORED our satellites, claim UAE French sat contract at risk Snapchat issues update in wake of 4.6 million user data breach Words like "apologize" and "sorry" notably absent Snowden docs: NSA building encryption-cracking quantum computer Is anyone honestly surprised spy guys want to 'own the net?' FireEye buys outfit that lifted the lid on Chinese cyber-espionage Billion-dollar deal for Mandiant sees threat response added to FireEye's product stable Slovenian jailed for creating code behind 12 MILLION strong 'Mariposa' botnet army Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane CryptoLocker creeps lure victims with fake Adobe, Microsoft activation codes Can also worm its way in through removable drives, spam attacks Snapchat: In 'theory' you could hack... Oh CRAP is that 4.6 MILLION users' details? Hey Mr Bull, meet my friend Red Rag Skype's Twitter account, blog hacked to spread anti-Microsoft messages Hi! Microsoft here. We p0wn you, so don't use our products How the NSA hacks PCs, phones, routers, hard disks 'at speed of light': Spy tech catalog leaks Analysis It's not as bad as you thought - it's much worse Software News Popular app gets Apple acquisition for founder SnappyLabs lost in Cupertino Microsoft shops ditch XP for New Year as Windows market share expands But what's this... they're all moving to Windows 8.1? Merry Christmas? Not for app devs: That gold rush is officially OVER Mobile app downloads: 97%... 90%... 25%?! Want Google to erase your data? Just wait for it to kill off one of its apps Ad giant bumps off Bump, socks Flock with rock, pours photos down drain If you're still waiting for Firefox on Windows 8, don't hold your breath No fondleslab-friendly browser until March at the earliest Science News Boffins build sticky-limbed lizard-bots to tend spacecraft Gecko-inspired units able to crawl outside hulls Mars One's certain-death space jolly shortlists 1,000 wannabe explorers Fiery death by cosmic radiation? But but but THINK OF THE RATINGS! Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest EVER recorded, global warming is NOT eroding it' Human CO2 just not a big deal at Pine Island Glacier Curiosity rover: While you humans were busy being hungover, this bot hit its 500th Martian day The not-so-little NASA nuke tank that could Chinese Jade RABBIT SIGHTED ON MOON by NASA probe Small lander, rover from Middle Kingdom spied by orbiting US craft Alien SUPER-EARTH: If there is LIFE up there, it'll be moaning about the weather 'The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin Private space truck ready for ISS trip as soon as NEXT WEEK Cygnus capsule good to go 'New' nova starts to BLUSH Nova Centauri 2013 is in the pink Boffins invent LUMINOUS PIGS again, glow-in-dark bacon sarnies presumably imminent Something's not quite kosher Cheeky LOHAN chaps in gutsy snatch at El Reg's paper spaceplane crown Pink missile lunges downward from 31,849m Bootnotes News Australia puts 300 sharks on Twitter @Shark: Humans are so bad at statistics I think I'll eat one Drug dealer demands jail to escape 'unbearable' missus after NYE row 'Difficile e insopportabile' wife proved less attractive than a stripey suntan Quick guide to disaster recovery in the cloud Assisting IT directors and managers in creating and implementing the most effective cloud-based disaster recovery strategy for their organization. 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