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Windows Phone 7, Kinect, Cloud Defined Microsoft’s 2010

Windows Phone 7, Kinect, Cloud Defined Microsoft's 2010 by Nicholas Kolakowski Entering the Tablet Game Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 6 keynote address at the...

Skype Suffers Massive, Multi-hour Network Outage

Skype suffered a serious server outage Dec. 22 that left swaths of its 560 million or so worldwide users without PC-calling capabilities for most...

IBM, NATO Collaborate on New Cloud Computing Project

IBM has a big new international project on its agenda as of Dec. 22.Big Blue is going to show the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

Twitter Buys Fluther Social QandA Service for Talent

Twitter has acquired a small startup called Fluther for its engineering talent, the microblog power said Dec. 21.Pronounced like "mother," Fluther offers a social...

Motorola Buys Zecter to Enhance MotoBlur Experience on Smartphones

Motorola has purchased Zecter, a startup company with synchronization and streaming technologies for on-demand media consumption, it announced Dec. 22. Motorola officials plan to...

Apple Drops WikiLeaks App from App Store

Apple joins the growing list of U.S. companies that have cut ties with WikiLeaks in recent weeks by removing an application from its online...

Privacy, Hacktivists, Insider Threats: Security Predictions for 2011

Privacy, Hacktivists, Insider Threats: Security Predictions for 2011 by Brian Prince More Privacy Regulations In the past few weeks, the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Commerce and...

Data Warehouser Teradata Buys Cloud Marketer Aprimo for $525M

Teradata, the world's largest independent data warehouse provider, revealed Dec. 22 that it intends to acquire Aprimo, which makes marketing support software, for $525...

Dell Acquires InSite One to Ease Medical Image Sharing, Storage

Dell has announced it will buy InSite One, the developer of a medical archiving cloud application to make it easier for physicians to share...

Google Shared Spaces Leverages Google Wave Gadgets

Google made good on reheating leftover scraps from its failed Google Wave experiment by launching Shared Spaces with gadgets from the defunct real-time collaboration...