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During Microsoft's recent Smoked by Windows Phone challenge, Microsoft-based devices were almost always faster at completing everyday tasks compared to Android and iPhone handsets. But even the fastest Windows Phone can't run away from the fact that nobody's buying Microsoft-powered handsets.

Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on Thursday.

U.S. Senator Al Franken has in a letter asked the Department of Justice for information on its practices in requesting location information from wireless carriers, following reports that law enforcement agencies are requesting such information sometimes without warrants.

Keynote Systems and Scribe Software in three-way tie with Google Apps; best integration solution also sees two winners

The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other social networking sites.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of Facebook's proposed acquisition of Instagram that could delay the closing of the deal, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

In an effort to diversify its cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the cloud.

Google is testing a new type of search result that provides extensive topic information alongside the usual list of links.

The network infrastructure market has evolved rapidly, from one in which most organizations adhered to a single-vendor architecture to a more business-driven network architecture that increasingly uses a multivendor, best-of-breed approach. Gartner research found there is no operational advantage to maintaining a single-vendor approach; therefore, analyzing the functional and financial differences between vendors is key for building a network that best fits business requirements. This white paper reviews the enterprise networking market dynamics and reveals Gartner's recommendations on how to proceed.

The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics.