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Microsoft TechEd focuses IT pros on the 'Cloud OS'
For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Read More

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The Future of Identity in a world of Cloud and Mobility
Cloud, Mobility, Social Identity and BYOD are forcing small businesses, major enterprises and government agencies to re-think their interaction with customers and partners. Learn More>>

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Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus
OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings. Read More

Japanese Internet icon, free from prison, starts app design firm
A Japanese entrepreneur who founded one of the country's largest web portals and was a national celebrity before being jailed for securities fraud is now free and has launched a firm to develop smartphone apps. Read More

5 tips for avoiding private cloud failures
According to Piston Cloud Computing's CTO, the rate at which his customer's pilot projects turn into production private clouds is pretty typical of most OpenStack-based providers – and it's pretty low. Read More

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Leveraging SaaS to Drive Innovation and Results
Learn how sales, finance, marketing, procurement, and supply chain leaders are leveraging SaaS to become more agile and serve the customer better. Learn More.

Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip
Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. Read More

Looks like Feedly wins the Google Reader expat crown
Feedly, the free RSS service that has been the safe harbor for millions of Internet refugees fleeing the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader, announced Monday that several popular RSS apps will access its API free of charge. Read More

Targeting cloud, Microsoft set to revamp major enterprise software platforms
Microsoft is showing off improvements to most of its enterprise infrastructure software designed to make it simpler for businesses to deploy hybrid cloud services that can allocate resources as needed. Read More

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The New World of Mobility Management
Mobility management continues to evolve as BYOD and mobile application deployments become more commonplace. There isn't a "one size fits all" strategy. Read Now

IE10 steals user share from IE9, jumps 53%
Microsoft's Internet Explorer boosted its user share last month by 53% as the company's enforced upgrade for Windows 7 continued to take effect. Read More

Hitachi adds Amazon Web Services to cloud lineup in Japan
Hitachi said Monday it will officially support Amazon Web Services as part of its cloud solution offerings, a victory for Amazon over rival Microsoft Azure. Read More

7 things you can do to make Internet Explorer more secure
How well Internet Explorer--or any Web browser, for that matter--protects against attacks and malware greatly depends on whether you keep it up to date and have the right security settings. Here's how to take the proper security measures with Internet Explorer 9 and 10. Read More

TechEd: Microsoft preps system software for cloud usage
Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server. Read More

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The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

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