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Facebook Stalks Google with $2B in Social-Ad Spend

Facebook led the market in social-network advertising in 2010, racking up $1.86 billion of the ad revenues in the U.S. and abroad, thanks to...

Western Digital Expands Line of SAS Hard Drives

Western Digital is offering its second-generation WD S25 server-attached-storage drives and its latest WD RE server-attached-storage 3.5-inch drives for the traditional enterprise market.Shipping now,...

Quest Software Moves Deeper into Storage with BakBone Acquisition

Quest Software, which used to concentrate on producing software tools that made dealing with complicated Oracle database deployments bearable, continues to add to its...

Internap Cloud Storage Runs on OpenStack Platform

Internap XIPCloud Storage, which just went into a limited beta test release, is the first major application using the OpenStack open source cloud computing...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Aims to Battle Salesforce.com, Oracle

Microsoft's cloud strategy reached another stage Jan. 17 with the announcement of a worldwide launch date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version...

Google as Phone Carrier Theory Mostly Well-Received

eWEEK started the new year by skewering the popular, but quite speculative notion that Google could become a phone carrier, offering these five reasons...

Wikipedia Turns 10, Looks Forward to Next Decade

Against extraordinary odds, Wikipedia turned 10 years old Jan. 15, celebrating a decade of providing free information about almost any topic conceivable.Wikipedia, managed by...

Fresh Mozilla Firefox Beta 4 Drops for Testing

Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 browser beta to the public Jan. 14, offering a new look with an emphasis on speed for users...

Google Explains Why It’s Abandoning H.264 in Chrome

Google said it would not support H.264 as a baseline video codec standard for HTML video because it refuses to accept the licensing requirements...

Verizon iPhone to Curb Android Sales, but How Much?

Most high-tech analysts in the free world agree the CMDA-based Verizon iPhone 4 will impede both AT&T's iPhone sales and the growth of Google...