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Office on the iPad is a foregone conclusion. It's been that way since Microsoft dipped its toe in the water with OneNote on iPhone a year ago, then crossed the Rubicon with OneNote, SkyDrive, and Lync on the iPad last December.

| 22 February 2012, 4 pm

I want to love the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its new Version 2.0 operating system released yesterday. After all, the PlayBook OS will be the basis of Research in Motion's future BlackBerry smartphones' BlackBerry 10 OS, and it has a clean, simple, inviting...

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

The story of Node.js reads like it came from a Hollywood script assembly line: Some kids are monkeying around with scrap they picked up around the Internet and find a new way to snap it together. The next thing you know, they're lapping the pack at the racetrack and...

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

Adoption of mobile devices has reached a tipping point in the workplace, with most businesses in a recent Symantec survey pondering development of custom applications or already running line-of-business applications on these handheld units.

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

Facebook users have become dramatically more protective of not just revealing who they are, but also who they know. Significantly fewer Facebook users make their Friends list public now compared to just a couple of years ago. The trend is driven by the increased attention Facebook has received since 2010 over its privacy policies, dramatic site changes, and increased awareness that third...

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

APIs are fine-grain services that may be called by other systems, applications, or even people to provide access to core cloud services. They can be used for putting information into cloud storage, pulling information from cloud storage, updating a cloud-based database, validating data, monitoring a network -- pretty much anything you can think of.

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with improvements over Vista such as a friendlier UAC mechanism, the ability to encrypt removable media as well as hard drive volumes, broader support for strong cryptographic ciphers, hassle-free secure remote access, and sophisticated protection against Trojan malware in the form of AppLocker, to name a few.

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

As part of my duties, I run the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) at our office. The system for the most part is self-sufficient and doesn't require a lot of troubleshooting -- I'm called maybe a few times a week. But certain instances are more time-consuming, including a...

| 22 February 2012, 11 am

Google garnered a lot of attention last week. And not in a good way. But does it really deserve the shellacking for its tracking cookie practices?

| 21 February 2012, 1 pm

Google garnered a lot of attention last week -- not in a good way. But does it really deserve the shellacking for its tracking cookie practices?

| 21 February 2012, 1 pm