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In Wake of BlackBerry’s Demise, CIOs Look to Samsung, Apple and Microsoft

Arista fires broadside at Cisco/Insieme with new switches

Unveils new data center, cloud switches just ahead of Nexus 9000 launch

Apple puts the ball in Microsoft’s court

Apple's new free software and upgrade strategy is seen by analysts as an offensive and a defensive move to challenge Microsoft.

Google had opportunity to join group that won Nortel’s 6000 patents

Late last week, the consortium that won the auction for Nortel's patents (otherwise known as Rockstar) filed suit against a number of companies for patent infringement, including Google.

Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates

Combined Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 user share passes 10%

Microsoft to can Skype API, third party products will not work

Skype's Desktop API will stop working this December and so will lots of add-ons

Windows 8.1 creates mouse-control problems for gamers

Microsoft has acknowledged the issues, but it hasn't come up with a fix yet

It’s like a coffee maker, but for beer

A former Microsoft engineer has invented a machine that dumbs-down the beer brewing process.

Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing cloud app rivals

Analysts say it needs to improve its unified communications and enterprise social efforts or risk being left behind

Tech industry calls for ‘oversight and accountability’ of NSA surveillance

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies had so far asked for permission to reveal data requests to the public