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

Google says Instant, which refreshes search results as people type queries, benefits users, advertisers and publishers

Released Beta 5 last week, now pushing to lock in features for final

Intel has announced that its new Sandy Bridge processors will begin shipping in high volume early 2011

The easy-to-use ArcSoft MediaConverter handles video, audio, images–and 3D

Plus, a new camera from Nikon and Intel CEO shares his view on the McAfee acquisition

The bidding war for 3Par exceeded the company’s value, executive says

Failure to prospect on a regular basis will lead to poor results

The move will add more security wares to Hewlett-Packard’s portfolio

Opportunity for channel to fill the skills gap

01 Communique seeks past and future damages for willful infringement of its patent issued in 2005

This MFP offers good speed and print quality plus access to some fun Web apps, but has pricey inks and skimpy paper-handling

Plus, Office for Mac and IBM’s new financing deal

WP7-based Phones will begin shipping later in October, Microsoft sources said to Pocket-lint Web siternrn