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Business News Microsoft: Hey, small biz devs – Windows Store apps are for you, too Build 2014 Updates make it easier to sideload, cram legacy code into touchy-feely apps I QUIT – Mozilla's anti-gay marriage storm CEO Brendan Eich resigns Updated Firefox maker says it's sorry, people are 'hurt and angry' In three hours, Microsoft gave the Windows-verse everything it needed Analysis Except a Windows strategy. But we can wait for that Juniper Networks waves axe at 6% of workforce Hundreds of employees to be laid off Intel's Shenzhen cash-splash signals mobile push Chipzilla to establish innovation centre and $100m fund Channel News Crayon pleads with channel: Help us build our UK biz Microsoft enterprise reseller sets up Euro-wide sales referral operation Fujitsu on hunt for UK directors after re-jig Blighty hot seat up for grabs, as is boss of biz app services Home Office terminates order for 16,000 PCs from Dell Civil servant admin cockup delays contract rollout PRIVATE: Expansys prez quits as Dragons' Den-izen Jones takes gizmotailer off market 'Can't talk, I'm doing TV stuff,' Mr Nasty tells us Data Centre News Microsoft vows to save devs from unspeakable cloud screw-ups Build 2014 'You appear to have just run with scissors, want to try that again?' What Microsoft means by mobile first, cloud first: Build Android, iOS apps with Azure cloud Build 2014 What's Windows? Signiant to SkyDrop files into Amazon and Azure clouds For people with whopping great files, apparently Sod Bitcoin - solving graph problems is the new GPU-flogger HPC blog Who needs x86 cores when this silicon'll crack it 100x faster? Tesla cars can now 'do an ET' without hurting anyone's bottom line 'I can tell, you know how I can tell? 'Cos we’re connected' WD 'restoring connections' after WEEK of MyCloud outages Access denied Need a refresher on virtualisation? HPC Blog This one's smothered in GPU gravy Fujitsu punts all-flash Eternus box... JUST before NetApp pulls a FASt one Mid-range array flies... for now Sun-seeking NASA boffins steer FLEETS of satellites... BY HAND HPC blog With a little help from some serious iron, naturally Google exposes its Andromeda software-defined networking Search giant plugs cloud customers into its thrumming network arteries Hardware News Intel uncloaks next-gen 'Braswell' Atom, 64-bit Android KitKat kernel Oh, and the demise of Windows XP? That's just delightful! Google-owned Nest halts sales of its fire alarm – because waving your hand SWITCHES IT OFF Updates push over the air to fix safety concern Hobbyist or hardcore? StarTech dual-bay Thunderbolt enclosure Review Build your own 760MB/s storage, anyone? Networks News Steelie Neelie secures MEPs' support for 'net neutrality' – in principle Politicos also vote to kill mobile roaming fees by end of 2015 Vodafone to spend £100m on 150 new Brit phone shops Extra 1,400 people will be able to work in mobile phone shops 123-reg shrugs off customer complaints over stealth domain transfer charges Web hosting provider quietly abandons free promise David Cameron defends BT's taxpayer-funded broadband 'monopoly': It's a 'success story' PM says more detail from telco will allow other firms to 'fill gaps' Soz, BT: All EE's 4G goodies still won't give you 'seamless voice' Has BT promised to deliver something it cannot? GCX targets small cloud players with new cable Japan-California services bypasses telcos 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 Bay of Tweets: US sought to disrupt Cuba with covert social network Report claims ZunZuneo intended to spark revolution Italy has a clumsy new pirate-choker law. But can anyone do better? +Analysis Vado a bordo, cazzo gratuitomane ICANN boss: 'Russia and China will NOT take over interwebs' Is he Putin us on? iiNet to Senate committee: metadata retention an expensive joke 'An impractical idea' Security News How much is a security bug report worth to Facebook? About $2,100 Team Zuck paid out $1.5m for 687 reports of vulnerabilities Your files held hostage by CryptoDefense? Don't pay up! The decryption key is on your hard drive Blunder discovered in latest ransomware infecting PCs 'Bank couriers' who stole money from OAP cancer sufferer jailed Two men sent down for fraud by false representation 'Good! job! NSA! You! turned! Yahoo! into! an! encryption! beast!' Web firm's crypto revamp praised by erstwhile critics Software News Microsoft in OPEN-SOURCE .Net love-in with new foundation Build 2014 Compilers, libraries, and tools released with full source code Wanna attend Apple's June developers' shindig? Ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?' $1,599 WWDC tickets to be doled out by 'random selection' Microsoft in 1-year Windows XP survival deal with UK govt Don't just take it and then relax, warns Redmond, you still have to migrate Science News Does my mass look big in this? Fattest galaxy El Gordo more massive than first feared Pic Hubble gets an eyeful of whopping cluster Hidden ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus may hold soup of SPACE LIFE Pics It's a big 'un, and it may be home to living critters 'Hello, is that the space station? NASA here. Can you put us through to Moscow?' Not-so-comprehensive severance of space chumship Driver drama delays deep desert XP upgrade Windows silliness puts our man at risk of CAMEL COLLISION Boffins make noise about D-Wave chip: it seems quantum Thermal 'knob' turns up the heat Bootnotes News Lego is the TOOL OF SATAN, thunders Polish priest New minifigs like Monster Fighters are turning kids to the dark side 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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