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

Extension suggests fewer than 2.5 million copies of the beta have been downloaded so far

A new model and additional smart phones set for release in the coming months

Chip planned for release in the second quarter of this year

Plus, Microsoft’s declining Zune revenue stream and cloud computing observations

CEO Eric Schmidt expressed optimism that Google will be able to weather the global economic recession

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics recorded a rare quarterly net loss for the last three months of 2008

The chipmaker is expecting even lower revenue in the next quarter, with shipment down in all segments

Mississauga, Ont.-based solution provider provided this fitness franchise with a personal computer-based coaching system