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Google to encrypt Cloud Storage data by default

Users can choose if they want to hold the encryption keys themselves

Dell profit slides 72 percent as privatization battle drags on

Dell has been cutting prices to win business, which hurt its profit

Wishful thinking won’t reverse Microsoft’s misfortune

Microsoft advocates ignore new power of users in believing Surface tablet will improve with better marketing or in phantom update

Microsoft’s ‘terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad’ week

This week's damage: Surface RT lawsuits, botched security patches, SkyDrive and Outlook.com outages, and a subpar Windows 8.1 leak

Serious action is needed to undo NSA’s damage to U.S. cloud providers

As U.S. cloud providers face customer backlash, the feds treat the electronic spying controversy as merely a PR problem

Do devs and IT pros get Windows 8.1 early? Not even Microsoft knows

Conflicting statements by company reps cause confusion, and Microsoft won't clarify

Intel to customize chips for big data applications

Intel is looking to solve software gaps with on-chip accelerators and cores

Windows 8 comes to open source PCs with GizmoSphere board

The new entry in the market will compete with the MinnowBoard

Google patches Android after Bitcoin wallet issue

Patch fixes a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications