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Cloud services for mobile developers: Google vs. Amazon vs. Azure vs. Parse

Cloud-based back-ends for mobile applications combine key services with varying degrees of complexity

Hardware torpedoes IBM’s Q4 revenue

Sluggish sales of IBM mainframes and other hardware put a damper on the company's latest quarterly earnings report

Buying a hard drive? Stats say get Hitachi, avoid Seagate

Cloud backup outfit Backblaze crunched data on low-cost hard drives in its data centers to figure out failure profiles for consumer brands

Brocade exits network adapter business

The company says its future lies in data center fabrics and software defined networking

Hortonworks brings Hadoop 2.0 to Windows

Windows shops gain access to a distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.0 certified for production usage on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012

Chrome spammers duped users, developers — and Google too

Loopholes in Chrome's add-on technology allowed spammers to get past several security checkpoints -- including Google's

IBM drops $1.2B to significantly expand its global cloud footprint

Following a huge investment in SoftLayer, IBM plans to build 15 new cloud-based data center facilities worldwide

Update: Microsoft pushes firmware fix to more Surface Pro 2 owners

'Looks like the problem is fixed,' says one user referring to battery, sleep/hibernate glitches

BIG YoY jump in iPhone sales — HP launches Win7 PC promo — EBAY’s digital currency marketplace — YAHOO tops Google 6th straight month

Fon working with Qualcomm to expand Wi-Fi hotspots

The free Wi-Fi aggregator has also received new funding from the chip maker as well as from Google and Deutsche Telekom