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

Plus, Oracle acquires BEA and banning writers from Facebook

The former direct darling’s embrace of the retail channel is paying dividends

Admits in plea he schemed to defraud Cisco though its SMARTnet service contract program

Prototypes of Intel’s Terascale chips should be achieved sometime next year

New 2.5-inch drives from Hitachi open worthwhile possibilities for laptops and storage arrays

Called Air, the notebook measures 0.8 to 1.2 inches in thickness, while weighing only three pounds

Ads will be delivered through Microsoft’s Atlas, Windows CE and SQL Server technologies

Published report has the industry speculating over a potential high profile acquisition

Mac users will need to be more cautious in the future, says security vendor

Release comes one day after shareholders approved the company’s sale to IBM