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Microsoft's Xbox One: What's Windows got to do with it? | ZDNet

Apple avoided billions in taxes, aimed for 'holy grail of tax avoidance', panel says | ZDNet

How Microsoft dodged the Yahoo bullet | ZDNet

With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing | ZDNet

Microsoft's most profitable mobile operating system: Android | ZDNet

Nokia launches $99 Asha phone, reveals new OS | ZDNet

Gartner: 'Prepare now' for the death of Windows XP; security at risk | ZDNet

BYOD: From optional to mandatory by 2017, says Gartner | ZDNet

Google Glass: Let the evil commence | ZDNet

Twitter warns of more hacks, threats to come; issues media memo | ZDNet

CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited | ZDNet

Want the most reliable Windows PC? Buy a Mac (or maybe a Dell) | ZDNet

Twitter 'rolling out two-factor authentication soon' | ZDNet

Microsoft rolling out two-factor authentication across its product line | ZDNet

Google services go down, access spotty | ZDNet

Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer | ZDNet

Microsoft's Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start b**ton, boot to desktop | ZDNet

Microsoft goes head-to-head with Amazon Web Services on price, cloud VMs | ZDNet

Google Glass is finally here: Tech specs released, first units shipped | ZDNet

Windows: It's over | ZDNet

Next-gen iPhone, iPad mini may scan your fingerprints | ZDNet

IDC: Global PC shipments plunge in worst drop in a generation | ZDNet

'Android is a below-cost trojan horse': Nokia, Microsoft, Oracle take Google complaint to EU | ZDNet

HP launches Project Moonshot, powered with Intel's Atom at first | ZDNet

Ubuntu 13.04 goes beta | ZDNet

The 21st Century Data Center | ZDNet

Microsoft's Windows Blue looks to be named Windows 8.1 | ZDNet

April Fools' 2013: The best techy pranks of the day | ZDNet

12 reasons why public clouds are better than private clouds | ZDNet

Video-based guides won't replace text manuals despite benefits | ZDNet

Why your enterprise private cloud is failing | ZDNet

Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to meld Kindle with social | ZDNet

India fines Nokia $383M over tax evasion claims; stay issued | ZDNet

BlackBerry Q4 better than expected; 1M BlackBerry Z10 devices sold | ZDNet

BlackBerry earnings: 10 key things CEO Thorsten Heins said on the call | ZDNet

Five security risks of moving data in BYOD era | ZDNet

Windows 8 moved the cheese, Windows Blue doesn't put it back | ZDNet

BlackBerry Q4: Lives to die another day? | ZDNet

Windows Phone outsells iPhone in seven markets, BlackBerry in 26 | ZDNet

The largest DDoS attack didn't break the internet, but it did try | ZDNet

Department of Defense dumps Blackberry for iPhone: report | ZDNet

Google Fiber approved for expansion | ZDNet

Microsoft now allowing business customers to buy Surfaces in volume | ZDNet

Adobe Q1 earnings soar as Creative Cloud subscriptions surpass 500K | ZDNet

Microsoft offers developers cash to write Windows 8 apps | ZDNet

Chromebook Pixel: Run Ubuntu alongside Chrome OS | ZDNet

RSS inventor doesn't see what all the fuss is about closing Google Reader | ZDNet

Microsoft in the clear to add Google CalDAV support to Windows Phone | ZDNet

Sad to see Google Reader go? Come on, folks...it's 2013. | ZDNet

Phil Schiller bashes Android on eve of Galaxy S4 announcement | ZDNet