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• 19 April 2011

• News: Free movies, TV, Seinfeld available on Crackle app

  Other video services may be raking in the eyeballs and subscription dollars with their movie and TV offerings for the iPhone and iPad, but Sony's new Crackle app may become master of its domain for one simple reason: It has Seinfeld.

• News: Microsoft announces Office 365 public beta, Marketplace

  Last October, Microsoft launched a private beta of Office 365, an evolution of its Web-based version of key business products like Office, SharePoint, and Lync Server. The offering is designed to take on competitors like Google Docs, Salesforce, and Zoho.

• News: Royal Wedding: Will & Kate & YouTube

  If you really can't wait for a recorded version of the Royal Wedding come April 29, Google's YouTube unit has announced that the Royal Family will provide a live video stream of the big day's events.

• News: Rackspace adds load balancing to cloud-based servers

  Rackspace's cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability.

• News: Asda parent Walmart scoops up social networking firm

  Walmart, the owner of UK supermarket chain Asda, has acquired a social networking firm in a major bid to grow its online and mobile shopping businesses.

• News: NHS trust dumps CSC over lack of confidence

  CSC is facing fresh trouble in its £3 billion contract on the National Programme for IT, after the Pennine Care NHS trust said it was abandoning the supplier over a “lack of confidence” in its ability to deliver a system quickly.

• News: Twitter said to be in talks to buy TweetDeck

  Twitter may be trying to pull the rug out from under a potential new direct competitor.

• News: Microsoft prices, lack of help push one firm to Google

  When manufacturing firm Cinram International migrated from Microsoft Exchange to Google Docs, the company saw 'a night-and-day difference,' according to Andrew Murrey, Cinram's vice president of IT Infrastructure.

• News: Microsoft broadens Office 365 beta, launches app store

  Microsoft is almost doubling the number of countries and languages the beta version of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite is available in.

• 18 April 2011

• News: Justices question Microsoft's vision of patent law

  The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a Microsoft patent case.

• News: Security Manager's Journal: Keeping in-house code safe

  We have a major problem, which explains why I'm sitting in an airport right now. I'm heading off to visit some third parties that develop portions of our software for us.

• News: Iranian general accuses Siemens of helping U.S., Israel build Stuxnet

  An Iranian military commander accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country's nuclear facilities.

• News: Microsoft's Office 365 cloud beta now public

  Cloud-based versions of Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and other products became available in Office 365's public beta Monday.

• News: WoodWing announces support for Adobe Creative Suite 5.5

  WoodWing Software has announced that its updating its digtial publishing tools for use with Adobe's Creative Suite 5.5.

• News: Security firm to Facebook: Clean up your act

  Facebook needs to make some simple, yet crucial, changes to secure users more effectively, according to security firm Sophos

• News: Microsoft broadens Office 365 beta, launches app store

  Microsoft is expanding the beta testing program of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite, almost doubling the number of countries and languages it's available in, the company said on Monday.

• News: EU sets ground rules for rural 4G broadband

  The European Commission has adopted technical rules on how the 900MHz and 1800MHz radio frequency bands should be opened up to LTE (Long-Term Evolution) and WiMax, to help spread the availability of broadband on the continent, it said on Monday.

• News: Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside

  Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur sometime later this year.

• News: Skype for Android leaks user data

  A flaw in Skype for Android could let criminals harvest private information from smartphones, including the user's name and email address, contacts and chat logs, the Internet calling software maker confirmed.

• News: Centrica plugs into desktop services deal

  Centrica has signed a five year managed desktop services deal with Fujitsu.

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