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smartphone maker gets
TALKY over HUGE
Xiaomi sales

Norks SCOLD Prez

Obama over Sony mega
hack payback sanctions

Hey look! Microsoft's

workforce isn't all white
men

'Groundlessly stirring up bad

blood', moans official

But it is pretty white, and there

sure are a lot of men

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Not so tight-lipped on
thunderous growth spurt

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Google un
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Microsoft has made

excellent software, you
pack of fibbers

Renault Captur: Nobody

who knows about cars
will buy this

Three expat Brits explain

their move to Australia

Healthcar
answers,

THE EXPAT FILES Down under

COTW Plus: Nobody likes

forecast: expensive but fine

Ugly Micro
report

governmental lawbreakers

Sadly, this car is tous les

bouche et aucun pantalon

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anywhere you like for

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who knows about cars will buy this

WORSTALL @ THE WEEKEND

Americas healthcare
Clusterf**k offers no solutions
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Networks

Acer WAVES AROUND

15.6-inch Chromebook
WHOPPER

Ugly Microsoft code

NUKED Bing and Yahoo!
report

It's big AND hard, apparently

Apparent blunder led to brief

search blackout on Friday night

Music fans FUME over

PJ Harvey ticket CHAOS
as Somerset House site
buckles

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Arts centre blames high level of

traffic for customer woe

The Jus

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Government

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Weekend Edition

US watchdog boss
pencils in net neutrality
February showdown
report

Enemy Eerie double

trouble from indie
doppelganger chiller
FILM REVIEW Jake Gyllenhaal

Want to shoot
FIREBALLS from your
wrists, SPIDER-MAN
style?

FCC chairman said to be finally

ready for vote

turns in a suitably creepy

performance

NOT for your kids ... but a

whole lot of fun for grown-ups

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I'm sooooo green: The

Beginner's Guide to
Krautrock

The Just City: A brilliant,

if puzzling, philosophical
dialogue

In the Year of Our Bong,

2015

FEATURE 'Were not musicians,

PAGE FILE AI as debated by

we are universal dilettantes'

Socrates

permissionless disruption in
review

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Games

Business

Security

Sony grovels, offers

freebies after
PlayStation network
spent Xmas TITS UP

Cops think Mt Gox

meltdown was an
'INSIDE JOB' report

Google unveils Windows

8.1 zero-day vuln
complete with exploit
code

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Games giant rolls over, starts

the year on its knees

Research shows less than 1%

of missing funds lost to attacks,
it's claimed

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BONG! 12 months of

Sorry, Microsoft, your time's up

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Government

Mobile

Apple's 16GB iPhones

are a BIG FAT LIE,
claims iOS 8 storage
hog lawsuit

Prez Obama slaps

sanctions on Norks in
payback for Sony hack

Huawei? Apple and

Samsung's worst
nightmare, pal

Size DOES matter, two fans

gripe to court

Never mind deadly labor camps

and famine, Hollywood is under
attack!

3 of the top 5 smartphone

vendors now Chinese

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Media

Security

Business

Magic streaming beans?

Sure, have my cow music biz

Islamic script kiddies

aim killer blow - at
Bristol bus timetable
website

1,000mph ROCKET CAR

project dogged by
beancounters

Any day now, they'll suddenly

have a Giant IPO Beanstalk
2 days

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West (of England) travel info

crayoned over by idiots
2 days

Bloodhound put back on trail by

motherly Jaguar
2 days

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Jobs

Security

Business

UK.gov: Sod SIGINT,

let's turn GCHQ into a
TECH CRECHE

Sony-blasting Lizard
Squad suspects quizzed
by UK and Finnish cops

Fill 'er up: 'Leccy car

firm Tesla brings back
PUMP SERVICE

Israel-style 'grad trainee'

scheme mooted by ministers

Hey, David Icke! Quick man,

check your PayPal account!

Charger plugs itself in

2 days

2 days

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Laptops and Tablets

Really, g
PRIZE-W

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hunt for

29 Comments

Media

Science

UK ban

Brit iPad sellers feel the

pain of VAT-free imports
Blighty sellers face collapse
unless tax laws are tightened
2 days

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Let it go, let it go ...

Sales of games, video
and music up for second
year

Ground control to 2014:

A year in
SPAAAAAAAAAACE

But kid flick Frozen still

massively outselling FIFA 15

landings and history-making

comet-chasers

2 days

2 days

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REVIEW OF 2014 Four-legged

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Business

Mobile

Mobile

Zuckerberg asks the

public to tell him where
to go in 2015

El Reg's Giant Mobile

Industry Roundup of
2014: Part Deux

Now be polite people

30 years ago today, the

first commercial UK
'mobile' phone call was
made

2 days

It was 1 Jan 1985 ...

not-spots and ... cloudobile?

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PART 2 BlackBerry squares,

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Government

Science

Security

UFOs in the '50s skies?

CIA admits: 'IT WAS US'

SpaceX six days from

historic rocket landing
attempt

Want to have your

server pwned? Easy:
Run PHP

How Musks rocketeers are

hoping X marks the spot

Over three-quarters of all

installs are insecure, research
shows

Don't put away the tinfoil hat yet

- only half of sightings
accounted for
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Business

Media

Media

World, face Palm: PDA

brand to RISE FROM
THE GRAVE

Universal Pictures told

off for scaring kids with
nasty vid

No wind-up: Second
New Year's honour for
Baylis music box

Chinese mobe maker bags

trademarks from HP

ASA asks: 'Won't somebody

please think of the children'

4 days

4 days

Hoberman and former Dragons'

Den star Caan also awarded
medals

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Phones

CIO

Mobile

QWERTY-tastic
BlackBerry Classic
actually a classic

Stale pizza, backup

BlackBerrys, payroll
panic: Sony Pictures
mega-hack

T-Mobile US CEO on
wearables: 'Apple Watch
is the tipping point'

REVIEW Back to the future with

jolly useful tool

4 days

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What went down when it all, er,

went down
4 days

...and contracts are history,

says crystal-ball-gazing bigwig
4 days

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Security

Mobile

Government

Office MACROS PERIL!

Age-old VBScript tactic
is BACK in biz attack

El Reg's Giant Mobile

Industry Roundup of
2014

Really, govt tech profit

cash grab is a PRIZEWINNING idea?

'Office macro exploits only cool

thing Visual Basic used for,'
quips securobod

PART 1 iPhone-gasms, a Wintel

WORSTALL ON WEDNESDAY

for phones and more...

Where's the incentive to

innovate?

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4 days

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Mobile

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Science

If BT gets EE, it will

trigger EU treasure hunt
for fixed lines

El Reg tests portable

breathalyzers: Getting
drunk so you don't have
to

NASA preps lobotomy

for Opportunity rover to
cure amnesia

OPINION Examining the

A decade on Mars and it's

motives of EU telco 'old boys'
losing its marbles
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