Accenture/Avanade, Bulletproof, winners at Microsoft’s global Partner of the Year Awards

Google+ Pages for businesses still have some glitches

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As companies clean up their act, Greenpeace is updating its rankings to encourage change in new areas

An excellent (if pricey) choice for users that value the safety of their data

The Facebook CEO also said his company’s focus is on partnerships, not rivalries, during an interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose

Saunders is a former Windows product manager for Microsoft and ex-developer relations chief of QNX Systems

NetApp has refreshed its product offerings to help partners capitalize on the midmarket storage opportunity

Welcome to the era of cars that connect to the Internet, to each other and to the public infrastructure

Agency’s Open Source Center said to use social media to assess reaction to world events

Under Opel, IBM ushered the world into the PC era

This 14-inch all-purpose laptop offers competent performance and features at a netbook-level price

Plus, Best Buy UK’s demise and snom’s new VoIP phones for SMB

Synology finally hits the midrange sweet spot in price, performance, and capacity with the 10-drive, rack-mount RS3411RPxs

Take the reins of any of these five forward-looking initiatives and become an IT hero in the eyes of upper management

If Microsoft can’t manage to make Windows Phone a success, it will have to rely more heavily on business-focused software