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Top performers in the company are rewarded with a four-day vacation anywhere in the United States. Few technology companies from the seventies, besides Apple and Microsoft, are still around. Yet, Resource Technologies is still kicking

1. Microsoft has closed its guerilla design/thinktank lab Pioneer Studios--the group behind the highly-praised but then cancelled Courier tablet concept.

I'm picturing what it must be like at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Washington these days. First, consider the Xbox divison that has sold more than 10 million Kinect gaming systems since its launch last Fall, making it the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever.

1. Apple and Google will be called back to testify before the Senate hearing on digital privacy on Thursday, but this time they'll also be joined by Bret Taylor, the CTO for Facebook

How better to deal with Monday morning than with our handy news summary, iFive? What's that? With a wordcloud

As Microsoft's Bing increasingly focuses on enabling search to "help you complete tasks," rather than simply "find stuff," Skype could become an important part of the user experience. We’ve written before about how Bing is trying to turn search into an app.

When I worked at Microsoft in the late 1990s, Alex St.

Do you ever feel like all the great programmers already have jobs?

Tech giant acquires the Internet phone service for a staggering $8.5 billion.

Defending the $8.5 billion

Microsoft is bringing Skype--the firm that basically kicked off the home VoIP revolution--into its ever-expanding universe. Will it be worth the huge price tag? Microsoft 's purchase of Skype for a reported $8.5 billion is as good as done

1. After the repeated and damaging hack attacks on its network, Sony has yet to bring key parts of its online systems back up. Now it looks like the PlayStation Network and Qriocity service will remain off for a longer interlude --maybe as much as six weeks in total, though Sony itself is uncertain.

Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android, just as new stats confirm Android is "winning" the smartphone war. What comes next? Apple is rumored to be adding a host of new features to its iPhone and iPad OS to make it a better rival to Android.

So much for trade secrets.

The new conferencing system will get you up to speed so fast you can pick up the thread of the meeting even as it drones on, and on, and on... Do you have low-grade narcolepsy, or a low threshold for boredom