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Microsoft Office Web Apps to get new challenger: IBM Symphony
IBM today announced it's taking Lotus Symphony, a productivity suite based on open-source OpenOffice, to the cloud to compete with Microsoft's Office Web Apps. NPD: 'Windows Phone 7 off to a slow start'
Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's new mobile operating system, got off to "a slow start" during the fourth quarter, research firm NPD Group said today, debuting with a 2 percent share of new phones sold in the U.S. Helicopter from Paul Allen's yacht ditches off S. America
A helicopter from Seattle billionaire Paul Allen's yacht made an emergency landing today in a bay off the Argentine city of Ushuaia, at the tip of Tierra del Fuego, Reuters reports. The news service reported the Microsoft co-founder was not aboard the helicopter, but said the co-pilot was injured and taken to a hospital. Reuters reported the yacht, the 414-foot Octopus, was planning a trip to Antarctica. Firm: Android passes Nokia as Microsoft's mobile share drops
Google's Android has become the world's most popular mobile operating system, surpassing Nokia's Symbian in the fourth quarter of 2010 as Microsoft's market share plummeted, according to analysis firm Canalys. Gates annual letter: Helping world's poor is good investment
The Associated Press reports: "Bill Gates says he feels a responsibility to speak up for the world's poorest because they're likely to be hit hard as economic woes force governments to reduce contributions to foreign aid. In his third annual letter, issued Monday, the co-chairman of the world's largest charitable foundation expressed concern about budget cuts to the programs that transfer dollars from rich nations to poor ones, providing medical assistance, food aid, vaccines and other help." Read ... 
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