Microsoft loses three more cloud-savvy heavy hitters

From InfoWorld: Keeping track of the revolving doors to Redmond's executive washrooms is turning into a full-time pursuit.

Cloud visionary Ray Ozzie announced his departure in October (see Ray Ozzie's leaving Microsoft: What took him so long?). Cloud savvy Bob Muglia announced his...

Nokia's Profit Drops, Faces Need to Change Faster

From PC World: Nokia reported an increase in sales for the fourth quarter, but profit declined as the company continues to struggle in the high-end smartphone segment.

Sales for the quarter totalled €12.7 billion (US$17.4 billion as of Dec. 31, the last day of the period reported)...

Report: Hulu in danger of losing more content

From CNET News.com: Hulu's owners are bickering amongst themselves and the company's management over how much free content the online video service should offer, according to a published report.

The dispute is over how much Hulu's ad-supported service is competing with traditional...

Is Netflix trying to embarrass certain ISPs?

From CNET News.com: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said it is "inappropriate" for Internet service providers to require his company to pay all the costs of delivering streaming video to a subscriber's home, and tomorrow he plans to do something about it.

In a letter from Hastings to...

Sony Unveils PSP Successor, the NGP

From DailyTech: Sony today unveiled its next generation portable entertainment system, codenamed NGP --another follow-up to the widely successful PSP.

"This new system offers a revolutionary combination of rich gaming and social connectivity within a real world context, made...

ATI Lowers Prices on Performance-Mainstream Graphics Cards

From X-bit Labs: Graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices - ATI - this week decreased pricing of certain performance-mainstream graphics cards and also introduced a new offering in order to better compete against Nvidia Corp.'s GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics solution.

Starting...

Intel Develops Hardware-Based Antivirus - Company

From X-bit Labs: While antivirus software gets updated fairly quickly to oppose even the newest malware, sometimes viruses manage to infect a large amount of computers in just a few hours while the cure is in development process. Intel Corp. said in an interview that it was...

Intel developing security 'game-changer'

From InfoWorld: Intel's chief technology officer says the chip maker is developing a technology that will be a security game changer.

Justin Rattner told Computerworld on Tuesday that scientists at Intel are working on security technology that will stop all zero-day attacks. And...

Amazon Adds CloudWatch to Management Tool

From PC World: Amazon has added CloudWatch to the list of services that are integrated with its AWS (Amazon Web Services) Management Console, allowing IT staff to create alarms and troubleshoot from a browser.

The new CloudWatch tab on the AWS Management Console gives administrators...

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