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

If money is no object, Sony’s VAIO SB may be the ultraportable to get. It has the best performance we’ve seen in its class

Plus, Apple may be upping iPhone production and how to get the new Firefox

IBM says we’re moving into the post-PC era, but Microsoft begs to disagree

Acer says it’s the first 7-inch tablet to run Honeycomb

Changes without user notification may breach European law

‘Holy mother of God, here we go again,’ said one IT consultant when told of the dispute

Kindle Cloud Reader isn’t just for browsing books and can be used on pretty much any Mac or PC

Distributor adds cloud technologies from N-able, Symantec and Trend Micro

Plus, channel partners are welcome to Dell’s summit and Angry Birds’ creators are billionaires

Plus Sophos’ new distribution agreement and strategies for Google Apps resellers

Cabling and connectivity products vendor launches dedicated site for channel partners

Free, open-source file compression utility 7-Zip supports the advanced 7Z format, as well as standard ZIP

Cisco’s sales rose slightly but net income dropped from a year earlier