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What is Microsoft's strategy for slates and tablets, exactly?

Thursday, at the annual Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer gave a somewhat baffling explanation about Microsoft's position on tablet/slate computing that seems to run contradictory to the strategy of one of the company's biggest manufacturing partners.

Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google CEO, funds $1.4M X PRIZE Challenge for oil spill cleanup

At the National Press Club in Washington, DC Thursday, the X PRIZE Foundation launched its $1,4 million oil spill clean-up competition called the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge.

Researchers find 80 different Android wallpaper apps skimming sensitive data

While the superstar of the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference in Las Vegas this week was Barnaby Jack from IOActive showing off techniques for "Jackpotting" Windows CE-based ATMs, research from security company Lookout has had a much broader impact on consumers, especially those using Andro

Personal data of 170 million Facebook users exposed, collected, and shared without any hacking

Using publicly available information on Facebook, a researcher has been able to gather personal details of nearly 170 million users of the service, or about a third of all users.

Motorola beats the street, but smartphone sales haven't rebounded yet

Shaumberg, Illinois electronics company Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted its earnings for the second quarter of 2010. The company's total revenue was $5,41 billion, which beat Wall Street's estimates of $5,19 billion, but was still down against last year's $5,49 billion.

Microsoft wants to park a cloud container in your driveway

Cloud computing dominated the morning's Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2010 presentations. COO Kevin Turner and Chief Research Strategy Officer Craig Mundie spent more time talking cloud computing than any other topic.

70% of Microsoft cloud 'wins' are new customers

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner made the bold statement this morning during the company's annual FInancial Analyst Meeting.

Amazon debuts 3rd generation Kindle e-reader: smaller, lighter, cheaper, better

Amazon, online retailer and e-book pioneer announced Thursday the latest generation of its popular 6" Kindle e-book reader.

'Facebook Questions' launches, lets you poll Facebook's 500 million users

Facebook today officially introduced a new feature called Facebook Questions, the social network's take on crowdsourced question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers, Quora, and Hunch.

Steve Ballmer has one more chance to save his job

July 29, 2010 may be remembered as the most important day in Steve Ballmer's career at Microsoft. Tomorrow, the company hosts its annual Financial Analyst Meeting, or FAM.