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Business News Facebook's mobile ad bonanza brought it record returns in 2014 Social network Zucked up more cash than ever Facebook kills pic of Mohammed weeks after Zuck's Je suis Charlie! Don't harm the profit, I mean, prophet. No, wait, profit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 CPU dumped from flagship smartphone While China woes rumble on: Watchdog on one hand, deadbeat partners on the other Man trousers $15,000 domain name for $10.99 amid registry cockup Nice little earner once he flogs it – before everyone gets real tired of gTLDs Turnbull's Digital Transformation Office has NO PLAN, but awesome power There's a mission statement-y kind of thing and an FAQ but that's it for now Billionaire Bill Gates: There's ONE THING I can't do – and I feel so STUPID Je suis Charlie? Je suis imbécile IBM jobs axe: 'The cuts have STARTED and are spreading' sigh staff Here comes Ginni Rometty to chop off your head Docker unveils new top team: Added hires to look after enlarged container biz Hykes trio in expanded roles Juniper in the red as product biz bleeds sales in 'challenging' Q4 CEO Rahim: 'we are moving with urgency' GoDaddy in doghouse over puppy-flogging Super Bowl ad Domain giant: You'll still see us in the Big Game Hungry UK IT biz, VC firm to swallow former Ericsson arm Damovo – sources Daisy Group to take UK ops, Oakley Capital the rest: tipsters Care.data refuseniks will be DENIED CANCER SCREENING invites Exclusive Your privacy or your life. Pick one, says omnishambolic NHS project Sleepy Ofcom glances at Internet of Things, rolls over, takes nap UK watchdog prepares 37 pages of nothing Data Centre News Who's afraid of a virtual switch? Not big bad Brocade Vyatta now available on free trial license, routers get port crypto Will Amazon's big-biz WorkMail be another Fire dud – or a Kindle? If there's one thing we all really need, it's another enterprise mail service, right Exchange? Veritas is home. Symantec’s storage split-off adopts old name Moniker re-emergence the final unravelling of a doomed deal Spinning rust into gold: WD profit grows ... though sales dip +Comment Rival Seagate being outsold by Milligan’s Mob Cluster-grappling kids clash: Battle of the Big Iron in the Big Easy HPC Blog Bring your HPC weapons to the Mississippi NexGen polishes guns, prepares to face hybrid array legions Analysis State of independence brought revenues X-IO fights global hybrid warming, keeps ISE age going Gen 3 overhaul and superfast new top end Boffin finds formula for four-year-five-nines disk arrays Build arrays with spare disks - LOTS of 'em - it's cheaper than fixing drives Hardware News Friends, Canadians, countrymen: Would you buy a GOLD PLATED BlackBerry Passport? Review It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that bling A year with Canada's Volvo-esque smartphone – The BlackBerry Z30 Comment It's a phone! It texts! It calls! It surfs the web. OK, it's rather nice Windows fondleslab price war FINALLY pulls in the punters All it took was a reduction of 70 per cent. Margin, what margin? Fanbois to gamebois: Apple paperwork reveals iOS FUNPAD Hey, Nintendo – look here. No, here, not at this patent. Don't want to make you cry Which firewall performs best? Download the full report and read learn how the most popular firewalls tested in the areas of security, performance and total cost of ownership. Download here > Networks News FCC will vote to cut off 41 million broadband users this Thursday* * This headline brought to you by the cable companies Listen up, AT&T, this could be YOU NEXT: $40m sting for throttling 'unlimited' mobile data TracFone has to give peeps what it advertised – whoa Let's be clear, everyone: DON'T BLOCK Wi-Fi, DUH – FCC official ruling We're jammin' and I hope this jam is gonna last ... NOPE! EE squashes Orange UK: France Telecom's been 'destroying it for years' Kumquat may, fruits of BT merger won’t include Moss' baby YouTube flushes Flash for future flicks HTML5 <video> tag will henceforth shift video whenever possible US looks at plan to hand over world's DNS – and screams blue murder Assistant Commerce Secretary starts playing Twenty Questions over IANA power shift Security News Researcher says Aussie spooks help code Five Eyes mega malware QWERTY keylogger code alleged to name Defence Signals Directorate Scouts take down database due to 'security vulnerabilities' Full security audit for Compass database I ain't afraid of no GHOST – securo-bods Serious – but it's no Heartbleed Regin super-malware has Five Eyes fingerprints all over it says Kaspersky Keylogger plugin built on source code known to come from spookhauses Oz spooks hack, wreck Middle East 'cooling system': report Homebrew malware dropped on foreign state servers Software News Speaking in Tech: FREE Win 10 upgrade 'NOT really a big deal' Podcast Plus: IBM rep says layoff rumours are 'STUPID' Spartan on Windows 7? Microsoft is 'watching demand' Extensions plan coming Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen' Offensive word 'bulldyke' still being served up by ad giant Five years of Sun software under Oracle: Were the critics right? Oracle-Sun anniversary They said Java, MySQL and Solaris were all doomed Win Sun, lose Sun: How Larry's bet on old-world systems hurt Oracle Oracle-Sun anniversary AWS and Salesforce match up to Ellison's hardware Science News SpaceX simulates FLIGHT of the FALCON HEAVY mega-rocket MASTER-BLASTER Teaser of low-cost rocket ahead of expected full test this year Virtual Vulture 2 swoops into Spaceport America Vid Spaceplane lands itself, in hot hardware-in-the-loop sim I'll get my coat – there's a dusty one flying off Comet 67P Rosetta analyses dust jacket around everyone's favourite comet Which firewall performs best? 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