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Box has been thinking outside of the cloud

Perhaps gearing up for an IPO, Box is becoming a collaboration platform for the enterprise

Google dives headfirst into robotics with Boston Dynamics buy

With robots like Atlas and BigDog, Boston Dynamics makes Google a big robotics player

Canada’s competition agency takes Google to court in antitrust investigation

The company has again come under fire for its search and advertising business practises

’60 MINS’ gives NSA wet kiss — MICROSOFT flavor o’ the month: Nadella — Sprint and T-Mobile HOOKING UP — VALLEY’s arrogance bubble

NSA debates amnesty for Edward Snowden

The NSA is worried about the unknown amount of information Snowden may have collected from NSA computers

Microsoft promises to fix Windows XP SVCHOST redlining ‘as soon as possible’

Microsoft finally posted explanation for the redlining, 100% CPU utilization lockup frustrating many Windows XP users

Oracle’s still the No. 1 database, but MySQL is on the rise

The DB-Engines site currently ranks Oracle as the top database, but it's losing ground to open source competition

Botched Black Tuesday patch KB 2887069 freezes, fails to configure, triggers a BSoD, and/or zaps sound drivers

KB 2887069 patch went down the Automatic Update chute last week with an array of problems, but there are workarounds

Life’s too short for ‘fragile’ networks

The solutions to problematic networks are generally simple -- if you know where to look, or whom to ask

Good riddance! 25 percent of IaaS providers will be gone in a year

Some will shift into cloud specialties, some will be acquired, and some will die -- it's natural selection in action