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New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.

LATEST SOFTWARE NEWS

Color Microsoft solution providers unimpressed with the limited details Google provided this week on its forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS.

November 20, 2009

IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.

November 20, 2009

At Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer found himself answering the same questions that he's been fielding for several years, and his answers weren't much different than in the past.

November 20, 2009

Company sets alliances with CA and BMC Software that expand the Force.com cloud computing ecosystem.

November 20, 2009

A new video making the rounds shows Microsoft employees dancing in organized fashion at one of the company's newly opened retail stores. Is this just another ham-fisted guerilla marketing campaign from Microsoft?

November 19, 2009

Microsoft spent much of this week sharing its vision of the cloud computing future with developers, but CEO Steve Ballmer wants people to know that Windows 7 sales are chugging along at a record pace.

November 19, 2009

CIO panelists at Interop New York tell cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, Joyent and Google that security is still a big risk for cloud computing.

November 19, 2009

Google's YouTube offers automatic video captioning.

November 19, 2009

Google is providing more detail around its plans for Chrome OS, much of which centers on addressing the complexity that has long plagued users of a certain widely-used proprietary operating system.

November 19, 2009

Just four months after releasing Silverlight 3, Microsoft has launched the beta of Silverlight 4, which builds more bridges to line of business applications and takes Silverlight further into the enterprise.

November 18, 2009

Microsoft has a strategy for regaining its stature in the mobile device space, and there were plenty of signs of what it entails at this week's Professional Developer Conference.

November 18, 2009

Google's Chrome OS is expected to be previewed Thursday.

November 18, 2009

Microsoft is now offering the Office 2010 beta to the public, giving all interested parties a chance to check out the expanded collaboration features and cloud computing support the product offers.

November 18, 2009

The company also unveils new releases of its on-demand sales and service applications at its annual Dreamforce conference.

November 18, 2009

Google could be priming the pump to launch its own Android phone in 2010, which would inevitably burn bridges with partnering manufacturers Motorola and HTC, who currently utilize the Google's mobile operating system for their existing smartphones.

November 18, 2009

Microsoft looks to dominate cloud computing with its bold Windows Azure Platform. Will it succeed?

November 18, 2009

Google is expected to introduce an early version of its forth coming Chrome OS Wednesday.

November 18, 2009

The New Oxford American Dictionary's decision to add 'unfriend' as its word of the year for 2009 has sparked debate amongst people who use social networks.

November 18, 2009

Microsoft's Bing search engine continues to make incremental gains against rivals Google and Yahoo.

November 18, 2009

As more details emerge on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, cloud computing is set to take center stage for developers.

November 17, 2009

Search engine giant, Google, and new Microsoft browser, Bing, reported gains in market share, while Yahoo continued its steady downward trend after suffering a market share decline.

November 17, 2009

At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie ushered in the next chapter of the Windows Azure cloud computing development platform with a view of the back-end improvements in the offering.

November 17, 2009

New service will feed amateur videos to media organizations.

November 17, 2009

The move will allow channel partners to provide cloud-computing services to their customers, company says.

November 17, 2009

Mobile support is near, and support for hardware decoding as well as touch screens is here.

November 17, 2009

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