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Daily Headlines 6 February 2014

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Business News HP execs Bradley and Donatelli ready to walk: reports CEO Meg Whitman said to want managers capable of driving faster change Twitter shares plummet as first-ever earnings show weak growth Promises to win more users in 2014 ... somehow Need some college cash? Google offers $80K for students' doodles Logo design contest returns for another year Google views, reviews YouTube viewers' views with view to killing off spam shams Video site reportedly gets new boss Schmidt gets $100m in Google stock on top of his $6m bonus Choc Factory chair scores second big stock award in three years Microsoft's new CEO: The technology isn't his problem Nadella. It's about time. He's been Satya for 22 years ARM slaps on smartwatch, MIPs chip dip just a blip Cambridge firm: Revenues are still up, chaps... and we'll be making profits again in no time Samsung appoints first-ever British head of UK ops Andy Griffiths gets bigger office and everything First Dell, now IBM: 15,000 jobs face the axe at Big Blue, says union 'Workforce rebalancing' will take place in the first quarter Lenovo hires ex-CIA bod to push through Moto deal Lobby, lobby, lobby! Channel News Tech Data: UK accounting errors cost us $27m Distie giant restates 3 years worth of profits, beefs up fraud prevention weaponry Second-hand software broker: OK Microsoft – we made a mistake 'Can't touch Discount-Licensing core biz', says boss, 'we're legal' PEAK MOBILE: IT biz spending forecasts SLASHED World officially has enough tablets, smartphones: analysts Data Centre News Hipster SDN firewalls can gentrify hypervisor slums Gartner chap ponders security-hungry VMs on generic hosts Fixed networks to sag under weight of mobile data: Cisco VNI In other news, Borg CUTS mid-term mobile traffic growth forecast Sputtering storage space portends poorly for PCs Component sales point towards continued slump NetApp and Microsoft: We're 'close' to virtual ONTAP on Azure Federated array across the cloud ... and your own bit barn OpenDaylight beams down a little Hydrogen First code release offers SDN and network function virtualisation NetApp lets virtual swingers swap hypervisor with no guilt 'Project Shift' moves virtual machines between rival hypervisors in seconds DARPA hands IBM £3.4m to develop SELF DESTRUCTING CHIPS Left an embarrassing USB key behind? No problem - it'll blow itself into dust Dell reveals 'proof-of-concept' ARM microserver Applied Micro X-Gene 64-bit ARM rig available for 'support testing with select customers' OCP gets Ethernet silicon interface Mellanox kicks in another swag of code Hardware News How many keys can one keyboard have? Do I hear 200? 300? More? Transylvanian dedicated Photoshop controller gives you ALL THE KEYS Boffin dreams up smart battery gizmo for Raspberry Pi fiddlers Kickstarter drive aims to bring backup juice to the masses Fujitsu launches lappie for oldies What big keys you have! All the better to type with... Networks News Verizon: Us throttling AWS and Netflix? Not likely Telco denies throttling claims after excitable blog post Save Ofcom! Telcos and consumer groups call for end to legal disputes Regulator spends too much time+cash bogged down in litigation, says open letter Policy News Apple in patent cross-hairs AGAIN German court okays action from IPCom Apple's STILL trying to shake off court-imposed antitrust monitor Fruity firm takes supervision whinge to federal appeals court Google will dodge MASSIVE FINES in EU by 'promoting' rival search services But charges for some results remain, grumble ad giant's foes Rivals attack Google's antitrust search settlement deal with EC 'The mission of the Commission is to protect competition' Google strikes deal with EU competition chief over abuse of search dominance claims Legally binding for five years Security News Forget ski-jumping – Russians setting records in Sochi visitor hacking ... although they're not as quick as some FUDing would suggest Google adds its Chrome extensions and apps to cash-for-cracks bounties Ups serious open source fix reward to $10,000 Snowden leak: GCHQ DDoSed chatrooms of Anonymous, LulzSec 'I plead guilty to 2 counts of conspiracy and these b*st*rds were doing the ... same thing?' Russian gay dating app dev: We've been BLOCKED just DAYS before Winter Olympics Threats issued to 'Russian Grindr' users and 72k profiles deleted, says exec Put down that iPad! Snoopware RECORDS your EVERY gesture, TAP on iOS, Android Researcher demos terrifying proof-of-concept malware Crafty French hackers tweak 'My Account' page, slurp 800,000 Orange users' details C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la sécurité iFrame attack injects code via PNGs Old malware, new trick China targeted by new Android Trojan Bootkit attack hits '350,000 devices' Software News Android users running old OS versions? Not anymore, say latest stats 'Jelly Bean' takes lead as most-installed version Q: What's government-owned, designed to kill, and now more transparent? A: DARPA! Skunkworks research lab launches 'Open Catalog' to share research information Life support's ABOUT to be switched off, but XP's suddenly COOL again Perplexing popularity boost as users to face hackers alone come 9 April Science News Twitter offers boffins a free sip of its data firehose Data Grants project cracks open the blue bird's tweet horde Thought UK weather was bad? Try the wibbly-wobbly world of this ALIEN planet Crap changeable weather not worst of 413b's problems: there's no surface to stand on Optical computing a step closer with SINGLE-MOLECULE LED Strasborg boffins flash their light-emitting nanowire

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