The Google outage confirms what everyone should already know: If it seems too good to be true, watch out! Google’s failure is a lesson for everyone who is putting too many eggs in one basket, whether the basket is cloud computing or those who’ve ditched wired telephones for a wireless-only world.
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Casual hacking is almost as established a part of teen life as downloading music to an iPod, a new survey of the age group has claimed.
According to Panda Security, we should take seriously the statistic it gathered from a survey of over 4,000 15 to 18 year-olds that nearly one in five of them have [...]

Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then follow the program up with a public testing phase ahead of the Office 2010 release in the first half of next year.
Earlier this week at its annual TechEd conference, Microsoft said the Office 2010 beta [...]

Just over a week after Microsoft handed Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) to the public, the new operating system’s market share gains have started to slow, according to data from Web metrics vendor Net Applications.
As of Thursday, Windows 7’s overall share of the operating system user base was 0.39%, an increase of 18% over the [...]

Amazon.com Inc.’s new Kindle 2 has created a huge public splash — and not undeservedly. The $359 device offers a thin, portable, easy way to purchase and read books, magazines and other documents — especially for those who have never been all that comfortable with technology or (on the other side of the spectrum) are [...]