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When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Adobe's offices to meet with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on Thursday afternoon, rumors began circulating that Microsoft was negotiating the purchase of Adobe. The meeting agenda reportedly included discussions about Apple, suggesting Ballmer wanted to talk abo...

From Google, where privacy's just another word, and the idea of augmented humanity is one in which zombies whose memories are stored in Google's servers shamble around the streets, comes news that we need political reform. It's shocking how the system works, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an editor fo...

Facebook is holding an invitation-only press event on Wednesday. The brief announcement -- that is, the prelude to the actual event -- has thrown the social media and blogosphere rumor mills into overdrive. What, the burning question is, will Facebook announce? Much of the speculation has centered ...

The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly th...

By all accounts, cloud computing is the future. The market will grow at five times the rate of traditional IT products, IDC has predicted, estimating it will be worth $55.5 billion by 2014. While the future should be rosy, some policy groups are warning that without proper protections, the sector ...

The White House is working with several federal law enforcement agencies to draft legislation that would make it possible to monitor all Internet communication services, including social networking sites, peer-to-peer messaging and encrypted email systems, according to a New York Times report. "Soci...

Java Creator James Gosling explained why he quit Oracle in an interesting interview on eWeek. It is clear he had no understanding about what happens in an acquisition, particularly for an old school open source unit that has been the exact opposite of a profit center. I've been part of a lot of merg...

From Russia, where winters are cold and vodka is the best-known potato product, came news earlier this month that authorities there had cracked down on an environmentalist group, Baikal Environmental Wave, on the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. The Putin government -- which is a...

The Stuxnet worm, which made headlines last summer when it hit one version of a system that controls critical infrastructure systems governing power grids and industrial plants, is once again creating a buzz. This time, there's speculation that it was created by Israel to target Iran. However, secur...

Facebook on Monday denied a weekend report that it is preparing to launch a branded phone designed to make the mobile phone experience more social, Facebook style. Although rumors spread following an anonymously sourced report that first appeared on TechCrunch purporting that such a phone is coming,...