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Microsoft turns off advertising supercookies on MSN.com
August 22, 2011 – 5:46 am | No Comment

Tracking software persisted after deleting cookie cache Microsoft has disabled an online tracking technology that a Stanford University researcher said allowed the company to track users on MSN.com, even after they deleted browser cookies and other identifiers.

A Look at Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab
August 22, 2011 – 1:27 am | No Comment

Linux.com: Those of us in the open source community depend heavily on Oregon State University’s Open Source Labs (OSUOSL), but may not even realize just how much.

Depth Perception
August 21, 2011 – 11:00 pm | No Comment
Post-HP: Dell or Apple?
August 20, 2011 – 5:41 pm | No Comment

With Hewlett-Packard moving into the post-PC world by attempting to unload its PC business, Dell and Apple will duke it out in the U.S. Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Linus Torvalds’ Take on Android
August 19, 2011 – 8:54 pm | No Comment

During the recent LinuxCon convention in Vancouver, Linux creator Linus Torvalds took the stage to answer some questions about Android. During the past few years, there has been a lot of debate in the open source community over whether Android is or is not Linux.

Microsoft’s CRM Online, Office 365 Services Restored
August 19, 2011 – 4:22 pm | No Comment

Microsoft’s Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online have had their service restored following outages on Wednesday, August 17. For CRM Online, the issues reportedly included a performance slowdown to the point of being unusable. For Office 365, the status dashboard during the outage had indicated that “all users are unable to access their email, and [...]

Oversight
August 18, 2011 – 11:00 pm | No Comment
Microsoft Feels Quake Of Google’s Motorola Gobble-Up
August 18, 2011 – 4:27 pm | No Comment

Google announced earlier this week that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, primarily for Motorola’s intellectual property portfolio which includes more than 17,000 patents.While it may be a great move for Google, it will undoubtedly affect its competitors like Apple and Microsoft as well its Android device partners like Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and [...]