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

New Atom chips will be released on time later this year

The deal gives Sony a 34 per cent stake in the new factory

Aspire One with open-source OS now unlikely

Plus, enterprise social computing and Western Digital’s fourth fiscal 2009 quarter revenues

It’s a fast, heavy-duty, wide-format printer that can print everything from a memo to a poster or a banner without blinking

The Atom-based Aspire One will run Android instead of Windows XP

While the U.S. market will remain sluggish, other geographies should fare better, the report says

Deduplication boxes can now send data offsite for disaster recovery

People often use the search engine that seems familiar to them. For most people today, that’s Google

Entries must now be submitted by Aug. 7 at 5 P.M. Eastern

Channel Elite Awards deadline extended to Aug. 7

Plus, Acer and Asus reportedly freeze netbook releases and Microsoft and Yahoo still negotiating