Huddle offers Microsoft-Office friendly alternative to Google Apps

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Named as one of BusinessWeek's Fifty Best Tech Startups, Huddle lets users post profiles, initiate discussions, share files, edit documents, set up meetings and web conferences, and share calendars." Huddle already claims many enterprise users including companies such as P&G, Panasonic, Nokia, Toshiba, Kia, Unilever, Xerox, Shell and Samsung. Best of all, it lets IT stay in control. Read full story Related News: Microsoft confirms Hotmail lost thousands of passwords to phishing scheme Microsoft is admitting that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account user names and passwords have indeed leaked to the Internet as reported by Neowin.net. But the company also said the problem was not caused by an internal security breach but was the result of a massive phishing attack. 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