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Business News PHOTO EVIDENCE of Windows 7 Start Menu in upcoming Windows 8.1 Build 2014 Start Menu really is coming back – and you could have it for free Amazon sets FIRE to your living room in TV-streaming shakeup bid Promises $99 Apple-crushing gaming and media console Puking! protester! forces! Yahoo! 'techie! scum!' to! ride! vile! bile! barf! bus! to! work! Pic Anti-gentrification campaign can't stomach swanky shuttles Hey, Flash Boys: Stop DEMONISING Wall Street’s SUPERHUMAN high-speed trading HFT's NOT the free-market crusher new book says it is Pivotal goes after Oracle with 'all-you-can-eat' pricing model Flat per-core subscription fee regardless of software UK regulators: We will be CHECKING UP on banks' IT systems 'Major outages... completely unacceptable' - FCA Tell it to me straight, vendors: Are you cheap and easy? For goodness' sake ... cut to the chase MtGox boss Karpeles ordered to Dallas to face bankruptcy probe Failed Bitcoin exchange CEO must say 'sayonara' to Tokyo Channel News Chin up, tech world. Gartner says it'll be OK Worldwide spend to reach $3.6 TREEELLION in 2014 UK storage integrator Glasshouse Tech goes titsup Calls in KPMG Restructuring to keep lights on VMware channel guru steps out of channel for first time in career Ed Dolman takes reins of enterprise sales team at virty player Data Centre News Greenpeace reveals WORLD'S FILTHIEST CLOUDS – and the cleanest may shock you 'False assumptions ... inaccurate data' thunders one accused tech giant Ubuntu N-ONE: 'Storage war' with Dropbox et al annihilates cloud service Canonical pulls plug on online file locker, can't compete with rivals' free 50GB space Who's up for yet another software-defined net protocol? Cisco wants to see some hands Openly flexes OpFlex at IETF, Juniper et al not even looking MySQL daddy Monty talks up Fusion-io's data-stuffed flash Compressed tech's 'astounding' (on MariaDB, natch) HPC boffins: Our HOT MODELS will help you cope with DISASTER HPC Blog What'll happen if the tornado hits? Glad you asked Speaking in Tech: Storage is FLEEING the public cloud in Asia Podcast Would you trust a private cloud run by your local council in Hong Kong? Tintri: We have ZERO interest in adding compute to storage Comment 'Smart storage' firm's doing its own flash-first thing Get ready for software-defined RADAR: Jam, eavesdrop, talk and target ... simultaneously HPC blog Multi-GPU wizardry from General Electric Aw, SNAP. It's too late, you've already PAID for your storage array Blocks and Files Do yourself a favour: Trust but VERIFY Hardware News Nokia: ALL of our Windows Phone 8 Lumia mobes will get 8.1 boost Build 2014 Finnish firm will be first to ship WinPhone 8.1 preinstalled, too Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini tech specs REVEALED And then there were four – report BlackBerry ditches T-Mobile US after iPhone advert spat Won't renew licence after operator tried to flog Jesus mobes to BlackBerry-strokers Samsung unveils fourth-generation Galaxy Tabs Different year, more or less the same slabs 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 GST on online purchases: still 'probably not' States can't agree on anything Apple: You're a copycat! Samsung: This is really about Google, isn't it? New Apple v Sammy trial kicks off with the same old arguments Crashed NORKS drones discovered by South Korea Terror fear after UAVs caught snapping major landmarks NSW to expand e-voting Scytl identified as preferred vendor Security News What took you so long Apple? 26 remote exec bugs die in OS X Safari Cupertino browser update catches up with Google Chrome WebCore patches Dimwit hackers use security camera DVRs as SUPER-SLOW Bitcoin-mining rig 'Seriously, this is just wasting electricity' huffs securo boffin Extended Random: The PHANTOM NSA-RSA backdoor that never was Profs' paper was all about attacking Dual EC DRBG, not a Snowden-esque spy bombshell Software News Look out, Siri! Halo AI beauty Cortana beams into Windows Phone 8.1 Build 2014 Major Microsoft mobile OS update to arrive in coming months 'Dads from the Midwest' pull down their email-spaffing LinkedIn plugin After social network for suits threatens suit Twitter scoops up Brit telly analytics outfit SecondSync Every second counts Science News Middle England trembles before roaring LOHAN Final hypobaric chamber rocket motor tests a fire and ice spectacular El Reg's Deep Outback XP upgrade almost foiled by KILLER ARACHNIDS Vid Get a load of our man's desert cannonball run of terror Want to see at night? Here comes the infrared CONTACT LENS Spook tech just got spookier Bootnotes News Dark SITH LORD 'Darth Vader' joins battle to rule, er, Ukraine Only I can 'make an empire out of a republic' intones presidential candidate 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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