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Business News Oracle shoves IBM out of world's No 2 software seller spot – Gartner Larry Ellison squeaks in behind Microsoft, Salesforce breaks into top 10 BT merges iNet and Engage IT divisions under one roof Grabs Easynet CEO, dangles redundo carrot to lure staff out BT befriends Google's lonely TV dongle – and saves YouView Chromecast gets footie Capita splashes £80m on network biz Updata Greedy integrator snaps up public sector partner - as we predicted Yahoo! keen! to! slurp! news! video! distie! site! It has Katie Couric, now Purple Palace reportedly wants NDN BlackBerry sucker-punches TV star Ryan Seacrest in patent brawl American Idol's Typo slapped with sales ban in keyboard spat Huawei rakes in £2 BEEELLION in profits Shenzhen stalwart bolsters international rep Channel News HP workers under shadow of the axe edge towards ballot box Union PCS testing appetite for 'action short of strike action' Data Centre News Angry Birds developers downplay fresh data leak claims Privacy flap LaCie adds fire to Fuel: Revs Wi-Fi external storage gadget to 2TB More wireless stash space for your mobile devices LSI embiggens MegaRAID flash stash Quadruples port count too Scality slips its Ring around Kinetic drives An object of Seagate’s exercise Security: Survive the attack of the known unknowns Live today And keep your eye on the Ts&Cs NSA plans to FREE YOUR DATA with range of cloud services, analytics April Fool 'Why pay providers to store or analyse your stuff? We've already done it' Titanfall, shoot-'em-up gamers, cloudy contracts and cattle Sysadmin blog Efficiency by numbers: It's wonderful, it's horrible and it is the future Snowden leaks made us look twice at cloud suppliers – biz bods Survey: Corporates putting cloud firms under closer scrutiny SanDisk offers Cloudspeed flash options for pockets deep and shallow 'Extreme' means 'Best', 'Eco' means 'opposite of best' Hardware News Apple poking at idea of bayonet phone fittings System could bring new lens options for iOS devices 'iPhone 6' with '4.7-inch' display 'coming soon', but '5.5-incher' 'delayed' Just transplant phone guts into a 27-inch iMac, remove its stand, and be done with it Intel's DIY MinnowBoard goes Max: More oomph for half the price Raspberry Pi's ARM not enough for your hacking needs? How about 64-bit x86? HTC One M8: Reg man takes spin in Alfa Romeo of smartphone world Review Nippy, gorgeous featu... Sigh. You're buying BMW, aren't you? Networks News Page through Page's page page-views: Google+ shows how many saw your profile Proof+ someone+ else+ is+ on+ the+ website+ too+ Three daddy Hutch has no interest in O2 HK giant shuns debt-laden dino MPs attack BT's 'monopolistic' grip on gov-subsidised £1.2bn rural broadband rollout No 'meaningful competition', committee says Vodafone brings African tech to Europe Maybe we will catch up with Kenya BT Tower to be replaced by 3D printed BT Tower April Fool Britain leads the world as safe lightweight landmark replaces telecoms colossus Asia's internet in peril as cable network breaks in TWO places Philippine telco tries to calm angry customers with backup plan Top three mobile application threats Learn about three of the top mobile application security threats facing businesses today and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk. Download here > Policy News Systems cock-up plagued new hospital in Melbourne Cancer patients missed appointments Money? What money? Lawyer for accused Silk Road boss claims you can't launder Bitcoin Wants all charges dismissed in New York case Hotmail-gate: Windows 8 code leaker pleads guilty to theft of trade secrets On the bright side, he's won our world's worst software pirate prize US judge tells Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon Uni $1.5bn in patent fallout Chipmaker to cough for 'wilful infringement' of uni's IP HP settles lawsuit after Mad Leo's WebOS and PC biz shenanigans Firm to pay $57m to investors Dotcom wants NZ to have fiat-backed crypto-currency Not an April Fool joke, apparently Security News Password bug let me see shoppers' credit cards in eBay ProStores, claims infosec bod Online bazaar fixes store account hijack flaw, we're told Researcher lights fire under Tesla security Needs two-factor authentication now Software News Don't look at Maria's SQL, look at MY SQL, pleads Oracle MySQL 5.7 'development milestone' release The mathematics of trust: How Microsoft can keep Windows XP ALIVE Sysadmin blog It makes a whole lot of cents to reverse OS shutdown Psst, you want NoSQL? We got NoSQL, says MariaDB: v10 now out New CONNECT engine lets MySQL fork reach into non-relational databases Google asks April Fools: Want a job? Be our 'Pokemon Master' Video Mountain View is prankin' like it's 1999... SPAM me! We're all really OLD: Google's Gmail is 10 ALREADY They just wanted to beat off Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo! Chinese patent app tries to own Wine on ARM More software patent silliness Science News Single chip photon source brings quantum comms closer Turning research labs into devices Soccer's dull? A MIND-CONTROLLED robo-suit will be used to take first World Cup 2014 kick Pic Checkmate, nerds Can you tell a man's intelligence simply by looking at him? Yes So says a Czech study – but the same doesn't hold true for women Georgia Tech touts polymer heatsink interface Nanofibres survive 200°C temps Bootnotes News Chinese company counters pollution by importing fresh air Citizens line up for bags of that sweet, sweet mountain air 3 Big data security analytics techniques Applying Big Data security analytics techniques can help you make your business safer by detecting attacks early, before significant damage is done. Download here >

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