The Reg: Apple plots 'HOME INVASION' [Wed May 28 2014]

Daily Headlines 28 May 2014

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Business News Watch: Kids slam Apple as 'BORING, the whole thing is BORING' Vid Are you listening, Tim? Millions have seen this Carry On YouView Regardless, BBC Trust tells the BBC I'm flabbergasted. My flabber has never been so gasted Foxconn devours $390m stake in Taiwanese 4G mobe network Tasty slice of mobile broadband market ahead of planned slurp Data Centre News Fat-fingered admin downs entire Joyent data center Cloud operator now home to most mortified sysadmin in the USA X-IO shuffles senior staffers – but this isn't an IPO prelude Analysis Internal promotions only? Sounds like a worried investor in the wings PEAK NAS? Peak NAS. I reckon we've reached it Storagebod Our man on the data centre floor thinks the filer arena will plateau French IT giant Atos is officially full of Bull.... and €620m lighter Embiggened firm expects to hit no 2 spot in EU cloud Watch this! Introduction to Amazon Web Services Video Ungated training session Sphere 3D's mini microvisor: Drilling into touchy biz tech Analysis Apps without mobility... made mobile Webcast: How to build an open cloud Reg Live TV Saying no to silos Oz company builds VSANs on Open Compute kit Hyperscale kit coming to your data centre Hardware News Four-pronged ARM-based Mac rumor channels Rasputin Guess what company would benefit if true? Hint: It's a Korean bête noire of Apple Mozilla launches Flame reference handset for Firefox OS It's big, it's beefy, it's not cheap, and it runs Firefox OS Intel marries Chinese chippery firm to SoC it to low-end tablet market SoFIA mobile platform family to get new quad-core sibling for 'entry and value' fondleslabs Asus Z97-A puts Intel's 9 Series chipset through its paces Review Revamped mobo finds its inner mojo DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? New leccy BMWs have flimsy password security – researcher Exclusive Motor giant told to try harder with mobe app Apple plots 'HOME INVASION' Open the pod bay door, Siri Networks News Still using e-mail? Marketers say you're part of DARK SOCIAL You can't make this stuff up Ask yourself, AT&T: Do you really want a Latin American adventure? Opinion If this was a defensive move, why didn't you speak to Dish instead? GSMA: There are more mobile connections than PEOPLE... but WHO'S HOGGING them all? We need to track the users Vodafone turns to EU, asks it to FORCE 'fair' fibre pricing What's that BT? You call it 'pricing freedom'? Policy News That Snowden chap was SPOT ON says China Middle Kingdom concludes big meanie USA spies online, a lot 'I was a trained as a spy' says Snowden Whistleblower reveals he was much more than just a contractor for US government FTC calls for Congress to crack down on consumer data harvesting Commission says measures needed to rein in brokers ARG! A GHOST SHIP! Pirates sunk by UK cops return from watery grave Plunderers on jolly boat Torrentz.eu be laughin' at Queen's finest Ditching renewables will punch Aussies in the wallet – Bloomberg Spiking billions of future investment not a great idea, we're told Security News BREACH! Spotify flings new app at all Android users After one user account compromised, music company pours bleach everywhere LulzSec turncoat Sabu avoids jail time for cooperating with Feds Leader of hacking group off the hook after spending years as informant iDevice ransomware stalks OZ, demands payoff Fanbois phones, fondleslabs locked, messaged that they've be 'hacked by Oleg Pliss' PC-infecting chat demon quotes THE BIBLE to summon malware plague 'He who is spiritual discerns all things' – including Trojan-toting miscreants Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you After the cyberpunks, prepare to fight a new wave of nasties Sometimes the FUD is real Authorities swoop on illicit Wolverhampton SPAM FARM Hundreds of SIM cards being brutally battery-farmed to pump out pink meat China ponders ban on IBM servers Report says Middle Kingdom worried Big Blue boxen bring big backdoors Antivirus firm Avast! takes down forums after breach You know the drill: change your passwords and prepare for the worst You've got Mail! But someone else is reading it in Outlook for Android Researchers say Redmond forgot to encrypt messages stored on Android SD cards Software News Google clamps down on rogue Chrome plugins and extensions Updated There's now just one store and Netscape plugins aren't invited Oracle shoves aside NoSQL upstarts with smart 'Fabric' tech Open source "MySQL Fabric" brings FREE high availability and auto-sharding to massive DB farms Microsoft Cortana EULA contains the Greatest Disclaimer of ALL TIME Gobby assistant to tell world 'accurate' things you're 'uncomfortable sharing' Science News Poll: Climate change now more divisive than abortion, gun control Dog bites man: The more right-wing you are, the less you think humans are toasting the planet Bootnotes News Spanish village of 'Kill the Jews' votes for rebrand Locals endorse new 'Hill of the Jews' municipal moniker

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