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Business News NO SALE! Rackspace snubs all buyout offers, appoints new CEO Claims strong results from 'managed cloud' strategy leave it better off alone Docker scores 40 MILLION greenbacks to pop business into boxes 18 million downloads in three months? Call the money men SUSE Linux owner Attachmate gobbled by Micro Focus for $2.3bn Merger will lead to mainframe and COBOL powerhouse Data Centre News Oi! You noisy servers! Talk among yourselves and stop bothering that poor router! RDMA-over-Ethernet steps up to v 2.0, promises less chatter so servers can get on with it Run little spreadsheet, run! IBM's Watson is coming to gobble you up Big Blue's big super's big appetite for big data in big clouds for big analytics Huawei: Our servers are a flash in the DRAM – thanks, SanDisk Chinese box builder flings ULLtraDIMMs into processor memory bus – IBM, Dell next? Got your NUDE SELFIES in the cloud? Two-factor auth's your best bet for securing them Infosec made simple: 2FA, its good points and bad points Xpliant targets white-label Ethernet switch vendors with shiny new silicon SDK and simulator now, sample product by year's end Is your data boring? MapR wants you to bore it back with Apache Drill New release adds support for Google-y SQL-on-Hadoop tech Permabit builds shrink-your-SAN dedupe box SANblox compresses too Oracle slurps another storage upstart: Front Porch Digital joins Ellison's crew Nice Big Data market niche biz y'got there, partner Is your cloud server in the same bit barn as your DR site? Microsoft will warn you, Amazon zips the lip Hardware News Huawei: There'll be BLOOD spilled in the smartphone sector soon No economies of scale? Shut up shop and go home, Chinese firms tells rivals Oi, Tim Cook. Apple Watch. I DARE you to tell me, IN PERSON, that it's secure State attorney demands Apple CEO bows the knee to him One sixth of the ENTIRE PLANET will buy a new smartphone this year 1. Make cheap mobe. 2. ???? 3. WORLD DOMINATION Drones CAN'T deliver goods ... oh. Air traffic control system backed by NASA, you say? Yes - a (sort of) Google Car system for the skies A SCORCHIO fatboy SSD: Samsung SSD850 PRO 3D V-NAND Review 4Gb/s speeds on a consumer drive, anyone? Networks News Would you pay $9,000 to flee Facebook bores? There's a web country club for you Two-factor authentication is for the hoi polloi Bonking with Apple has POUNDED mobe operators' wallets ... into submission. Weve squeals, ditches payment plans Providing a secure and efficient Helpdesk A single remote control platform for user support is be key to providing an efficient helpdesk. Find out about Vector's Series 12 PC-Duo. Download here > Policy News Big Content Australia just blew a big hole in its credibility AHEDA's research on average content prices did not expose methodology, so appears less than rigourous Court flushes VirnetX's $368m check from Apple down the toilet Patent damages payout kicked back to lower bench by appeals judges in US Deutschland, Uber allowed (for now): Ban on taxi app lifted Sour krauts can't stop car hire service right this second, says Germany judge OECD lashes out at tax avoiding globocorps' location-flipping antics You hear that, Amazon, Google, Microsoft et al? PLEASE STOP with the snooping requests, begs Google as gov data demands skyrocket Whadya know, spies are still spying. Transparency? Pah Give us a digi-Czar and more bureaucrats, begs UK tech-services biz +Comment Come on everybody, let's upload all our stuff into Government by Cloud 'Speargun' program is fantasy, says cable operator We just might notice if you cut our cables Security News Cisco sprinkles Sourcefire goodies on ASA firewalls FirePOWER can be licensed into existing kit Amazon REINTRODUCES Kindle swindle vulnerability Malware gives book thief grief Rejoice, Blighty! UK is the TOP of the WHOLE WORLD ... for PHISHING Thanks, gullible chumps - now everyone knows we're a soft touch Israeli spies rebel over mass-snooping on innocent Palestinians 'Disciplinary treatment will be sharp and clear' vow spy-chiefs Attackers tapping on SNMP door to see if it's open SANS spots new, dumb attack THREE QUARTERS of Android mobes open to web page spy bug Metasploit module gobbles KitKat SOP slop Hackers-for-hire raided 300 banks, corporates for TWELVE YEARS Phony cracker biz looked legit Software News iPhone 6 will make you fork over with Apple Pay if you want to BONK No NFC access for third-party developers, apps 'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux Multiple desktops and live tiles in restored Start button star in new vids Science News Screw you Russia! NASA appoints Boeing and SpaceX as space station ferrymen Musk charging nearly half as much as Boeing for crew delivery Was Earth once covered in HELLFIRE? No – more like a wet Sunday night in Iceland Geoboffins DEBUNK long-held scientific belief Cracked it - Vulture 2 power podule fires servos for 4 HOURS Pixhawk avionics juice issue sorted, onwards to Spaceport America India's MOM Mars mission makes final course correction Mangalyaan probe will feel the burn of orbital insertion on September 24th Bootnotes News Every billionaire needs a PANZER TANK, right? STOP THERE, Paul Allen Angry Microsoftie hauls auctioneers to court over stalled Pzkw. IV 'deal' Providing a secure and efficient Helpdesk A single remote control platform for user support is be key to providing an efficient helpdesk. Find out about Vector's Series 12 PC-Duo. Download here >

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