Microsoft’s Office 365 was hit by outages in North America but Europe and the Pacific Rim were not affected
Organisations are transmitting sensitive data without any security due to improper SSL configuration
A Facebook executive has hit out at Google's increasingly popular social networking site, Google+
Amazon Web Services has launched a tightly secured cloud offering, AWS GovCloud, for the US government
Microsoft has launched a Windows 8 blog as the beginning of its massive marketing campaign
Google+ has introduced social games with competitive developer rates as it looks to challenge Facebook
A distributed denial of service attack hit the HK Stock Exchange News Web but trading was relatively unaffected
Lush Cosmetics avoided an ICO fine for a recent security breach but had to pay for an expensive redesign
RingCube controls security and file access to authorise various mobile devices to access a VDI system
Amazon has bypassed Apple's strict app policies after allowing Kindle e-books to be read in a browser
As London burned, Team Poison hacked RIM's Inside BlackBerry blog to protest against company helping police
Google+ has been updated with more Huddle messaging controls and support for Apple iPad and iPod Touch
Lightning strikes in Dublin disabled two major data centres and knocked back-up power supplies offline
AMD is offering developers a SDK in order to the exploit the capabilities of its Fusion processors
A malware infection, based on known flaws, has hit millions of e-commerce Web pages in the past two weeks
At Black Hat, a researcher showed how facial-recognition could link passers-by to Facebook profiles
Google+'s real-name policy is an abuse of power and harms privacy, according to Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd
Mission critical Web applications can be supported and monitored 24x7 under Rackspace's latest service
Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software
Amazon Web Services launches VPC globally and announces Direct Connect and identity management
Microsoft and Apple are being questioned about Nortel's former wireless patents and Android-bashing
Intel is opening two new university research centres that will focus on cloud and embedded computing
HP has pushed out an OS update for the TouchPad tablet, with tweaks to everything from scrolling to security
WANdisco offers uberSVN and its app store to unify the software Apache Subversion development process
Spanish authorities are examining HP's claims of anticompetitive practices by Oracle relating to Itanium support
Apple has given developers the chance to play with its new syncing and storage website, iCloud.com
The Document Foundation has put out what it calls the first version of LibreOffice that's ready for business
Gorilla Logic has released FlexMonkey 5, updatin its testing platform for Adobe Flex and AIR applications
Chinese networking giant Huawei has appointed the former Government CIO as its cyber security boss