MS Office battles growing threat from Google in the cloud

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced

Google to apply Postini policy technology across Google Apps

No timetable announced, but goal is to bolster business confidence in use of Google's online apps suite

IBM announces new beta services for cloud software development

Big Blue is prepping pay-as-you-go infrastructure as well as full-lifecycle services for private clouds, though there isn't significant demand for could-based app dev yet

Facebook, MySpace coding errors compromised users' data

Both sites have fixed the flaw, which let subdomains be vectors for data theft

Security software detects data-mining bots

Pramana's new software is aimed at protecting Web sites whose intellectual property can be easily copied

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