$533 MEEELLION – the cost of Apple’s iTunes patent infringement [Thu Feb 26 2015]

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Business News NBN fibre: activations accelerated as footprint expanded Revenue, ARPU and capex all on the rise HP sets net to snare Aruba: reports Seeks top-up to WiFi business Flash flushed: Google's AdWords to convert ads to HTML5 automatically You want your ads to show up on mobes, don't you? Google deal means game over for mobile payments firm Softcard App and all wallets to go dark 'in the near future' Google tackles enterprise BYOD with Android for Work New Work Profile separates business and personal data WANTED: A plan to DESTROY metadata, not just retain it Australian Police keep leaking or pinching data: if we must have metadata retention, laws must stop their stupidity What exchange rate blues? Our storage revs have grown – HP Comment Don't know what the rest of you are doing, but... Say cheese! Europe's antitrust chief has Google boss in her sights – reports Schmidt meeting Competition Commissioner soon Big data = big loss for Hadoop-flinger Hortonworks Professional services the future, for now Chaos reigns as Coms plc CEO tries (fails) to stage boardroom coup London-listed biz questions chief's purchase of 20k shares Ads watchdog: Er, what does woman in her undies have to do with ‘slim’ phone? We said ASA, not... oh, never mind It's the EU and me against the world – Euro digi-chief Union needs data protection, copyright laws, says Oetti Soz SMEs, we're not interested in your direct biz Gov fudges overall small biz spend figures, claims success Denmark tops European tech table, two other Scandis right behind There’s more digital things than we dreamt of Who uses the Universal Credit system? ALMOST NOBODY, says report Analyst: It'll take just 120 years to complete. Phew! $533 MEEELLION – the cost of Apple’s iTunes patent infringement Smartflash reportedly happy with the verdict. Pope, Catholic Bloody TECH GIANTS... all they do is WASTE investors' MONEY Worstall on Wednesday ... and thank heavens they do Juniper okays Elliott Management's board nominees Figure out a strategy, boys, says activist investor Who's un-dot-pressure? .com overlord Verisign sues .xyz kingpin The big V flicks V-sign at upstart over 'ad lies' Channel News Azlan UK boss made 'redundant' amid restructure Gareth Hansford confirms split, looks for next role in channel Data Centre News US Army plots new petascale monster and 'tactical cloudlets' Plan calls for big iron to out-scale China's finest to preserve 'information dominance' PernixData RAMs in yet more speed to FVP Can’t say it doesn’t rise to the occasion NetApp shows hybrid love, revamps products for Amazon's cloud All woven in to DataFabric concept There's more than one way to back up your data Here's how to tell them apart Solidfire offers unlimited SSD wear guarantee, punts software at market And its flash will 'never' become obsolete. Bold claim New Dell boxes reverberate with Blue Thunder Lightening the hyper-converged load XenData’s storage Jurassic Park: PC tape backup is BAAAAACK Ask your granny about external tape drives, son Storage modernisation reality check Are you a zero or a hero? F5 and Citrix alumni build CAFE to relax cloudy apps Upstart plans to garnish apps with all the essential bits to make a meal palatable Cloud boffins build cheap content delivery network in the cloud Who needs Akamai when a few bucks can send video around the world? Microsoft's patchy patchwork extends to Virtual Machine Manager Recent Rollup fixed after it broke VM replication and made it hard to spawn big VMs Avaya joins SDN club with ONA-nism Casts code upon fertile ground with support for Open: Daylight/vSwitch/Stack Networks News Nokia blasts Ericsson out of water, demos 600Mbps data speeds Finns finding MIMO: But even that won't be enough in 5 years Speaking in Tech: 'He's walking around with a rubber horse's head on' Podcast Brocade VP's family Xmas sounds ... er, fun Microsoft cuts Facebook Messenger, Google Talk from Outlook.com Skype, anybody? Executive's guide to Windows Server 2003 EOL An advanced security solution that your business can deploy as a compensating security control in lieu of regular patching and updates that are no longer available. Download here > Security News SIM hack scandal biz Gemalto: Everything's fine ... Security industry: No, it's really not Why so confident, infosec bods wonder LenoLOL! Lizard Squad hijacks Lenovo.com, flashes swiped emails Updated Emo-takeover better not be a viral marketing stunt to win our hearts Europol shuts down darn RAMNIT botnet Cops analysing command and control server ... in Hampshire Not even GCHQ and NSA can crack our SIM key database, claims Gemalto If snooping was done, it was done via comms intercept Zeus scumbag infects itself, buddies, with rival Trojan See what happens when you don't run antivirus? Gemalto: NSA, GCHQ hacked us – but didn't snatch crucial SIM keys 'Investigation' admits to attacks, but says phone crypto secrets stayed secure OK Lenovo, you're no longer shipping Superfish. What about that POKKI, man? Reg reader up in arms about bundled bloatware Google offers 'INFINITY MILLION DOLLARS' for bugs in Chrome Pwnium challenge goes 24/7 to flush out bug-hoarders Software News W3C recommends Pointer Events standard – but it's a touchy subject. Right, Apple? Comment Is Cupertino now the web standard bearer? Elementary, my dear penguin: It's the second beta of Freya Review Never mind the bugs... love the skin Ubuntu's in Snowden's favourite Linux - Tails - rushes sec-fix version to market Sweeping up the dead bugs Science News Boffin: Use my bionic breakthrough for good, and not super cyborgs Volunteer amputees get neural implants to wield mind over matter COSMIC FATTY from the DAWN of TIME simply can't exist – astroboffins Now that's a black hole, my boy Russia considers keeping its own half of the ISS alive after 2024 Glorious Soviet modules to outlive degenerate capitalist space-slum, comrade Executive's guide to Windows Server 2003 EOL An advanced security solution that your business can deploy as a compensating security control in lieu of regular patching and updates that are no longer available. Download here >

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