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Sees NBN as enabler for 2014 launch

Having effectively killed off TiVo in Australia, TV broadcaster Seven West Media is considering its IPTV options, telling investors it has plans to create a “broadcast to broadband” operation in 2014.…

By Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI last month gave temporary security clearances to scores of U.S. bank executives to brief them on the investigation into the cyber attacks that have repeatedly disrupted online banking websites for most of a year. Bank security officers and others were brought to more than 40 field offices around the country to join a classified video conference on "who was behind the keyboards," Federal Bureau of Investigation Executive Assistant Director Richard McFeely told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit on Monday. ...

One hundred teams battled for the crown in the Team America Rocketry Challenge over the weekend. Only one rocket was victorious.

Bidding for the coffee meeting with Apple's CEO has less than a day left, and appears to be holding steady at $605,000.

By Deepa Seetharaman WARREN, Michigan (Reuters) - General Motors Co said it is investing $546 million in two new Michigan data centers in hopes it will free up millions of dollars to boost vehicle quality more quickly. The largest U.S. automaker unveiled a $288 million data center in the Detroit suburb of Warren on Monday, which went online in January. Construction of a $258 million companion center at the GM vehicle proving grounds in Milford, Michigan, will begin this summer. ...

Articles on supported mobile Web sites can now point Google+ users to related stories popular on Google's social network.

The 90-second trailer catches up with the Bluth family seven years after we last saw them. Netflix will stream all 15 new episodes starting May 26.

A new company is being launched in Birmingham to combat computer-based attacks. The University of Alabama at Birmingham is starting an intelligence company called Malcovery in a public-private partnership. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Unruly, one of London's hottest tech companies, has made its first acquisition, buying Germany's Shareifyoulike to gain the leading position in viral video marketing in the country. Unruly and Shareifyoulike work with advertisers and their agencies to create viral campaigns, whereby ads are viewed, shared and talked about on social networks, creating millions of pounds worth of marketing for brand owners. "Germany is a key market for us, it's the largest advertising economy in Europe," Unruly co-founder Sarah Wood told Reuters in an interview. ...

Get your stories the old-fashioned way, you lot

Bloomberg has blocked its journalists from eavesdropping on users of its financial data terminals after it emerged that reporters were obtaining stories through their snooping.…

By Kaustubh Kulkarni PUNE, India (Reuters) - An Indian payment card processing company acknowledged on Monday that hackers breached its security to increase the limits on some pre-paid card accounts in a global ATM heist in December. ElectraCard Services said no customer data was stolen from it and any tampering of ATM cards occurred elsewhere. "To withdraw money from a pre-paid card, one needs an ATM card that has a magnetic strip, which has encoded data. You also need a PIN. ...

(Reuters) - General Motors Co unveiled a $288 million data center in the Detroit suburb of Warren on Monday it says will save the company millions of dollars in product development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. GM has outsourced many of its computing and information technology (IT) functions in recent years, which it says were more costly and not as effective as the two data centers will be for the Detroit-based company. Construction of a $258 million companion data center at the GM vehicle proving grounds in Milford, Michigan, will begin this summer. ...

The director of "The Avengers" and creator of such shows as "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" has finally joined the the ranks of Twitter.

By John O'Callaghan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Cyber security and warfare are on par with a credible nuclear deterrent in the defense priorities of the United States, the U.S. Navy's top admiral said on Monday, after the Pentagon accused China of trying to hack into its computer networks. Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, told Reuters the defense department's cyber program had continued unabated despite the political gridlock about the U.S. budget deficit and enforced spending cuts in other areas. ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — The girlfriend of a U.S. software engineer whose parents insist he was murdered in Singapore said at a coroner's inquest Monday that he had been unhappy at work and feared "heavy hands coming after him."

In an emotional interview on "60 Minutes", the Microsoft chairman speaks of visiting Steve Jobs in his last days and marveling at how well he understood the concept of brand.

Everyone = Silicon Valley ad platforms tech companies

Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr?…

Wraps switches in Active Fabric Manager v1.5

One of the bright spots in Dell's business these days is its networking unit, which doubled its sales last year thanks in large part to the acquisition of Force10 Networks nearly two years ago. Now Dell has to keep pace with its many competitors in the networking racket – which it has just done with the launch of a new modular switch that handles both server-to-server and server-to-storage traffic.…

What do you mean you don't like what EVERYONE ELSE is listening to...

Twitter is set to finally make some noise as it prepares to launch a new music service.…

A central office router staff won't trip over

Juniper Networks has caught the “smaller is better for routers” bug, kicking off a 300mm form factor member of its PTX family which it says targets the traditional telco exchange, where rackspace was designed for the phone switching kit of the 1970s instead of the computer racks in data centres.…

Time for Ethernet to steal something else – open source – from InfiniBand

Switch and adapter maker Mellanox Technologies will take its own switching and management software open source, and allow companies to run their own open switching and routing code atop its physical switches.…