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Verizon facing 65,000 worker walkout
Fiber fracas
Mega American telco Verizon Communications is just three days from a possible union strike that would see the company lose 65,000 employees - about a third of its workforce.?
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Rackspace cages lackluster IPO
Your financial future looks cloudy
Rackspace appears to have a knack for ill-timed IPOs.?
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Apple challenges Reg to patent duel
New invention has familiar ring
Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests. There's just one problem: Much of Apple's "invention" was dreamed up by Reg readers several years ago - and one embodiment is already on the market.? 
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Stretchy 'bucky-gel' promises touchscreen video-stockings
Interactive nano-Spandex iPants for all
Japanese boffins have developed a material which they believe could be used to make stretchy, highly flexible electronic circuitry. It goes almost without saying that their elasto-conductor miracle sheet is based on fashionable carbon nanotubes.?
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Senator slams DHS boss over border laptop searches
Hey, Chertoff, seize this
A US senator has accused the head of the Department of Homeland security of ?blatant mischaracterization? over the searching of laptops at US borders.?
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1&1 botches Microsoft Exchange update
Linux escapes mail fail
Budget hosting provider 1&1 Internet has hit problems while updating its Microsoft email platform. Customers have been unable to access web mailboxes for more than 24 hours.?
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Boris boots Transys off Oyster contract
Nothing to do with failures or cloning, definitely not...
Transport for London and London's mayor Boris Johnson have ended their contract with Transys, the group of companies which provide Oyster cards - the card ticketing system for the capital's buses, trams, some trains and tubes.?
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Fujitsu leaks netbook news
Amilo Mini coming to IFA, Berlin
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has expanded its Amilo PC range with a netbook addition.?
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CERN: LHC to fire first proton-smash ray next month
Hadron headbanger machine chilled to ramming speed
Scientists operating from a hollowed-out lair deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border have announced that their enormous, unprecedentedly powerful 27-kilometre proton cannon will shortly be ready to open fire. To be precise, "first beam" is scheduled for 10 September.?
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GPS tracking slapped on laptop recovery service
Absolute knows where your PC lives
Absolute Software has added GPS tracking to its laptop theft-recovery and asset-tracking service.?
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