Tech News Week ending 05/15/11, Cloud Worries, Devices

What Microsoft's online outage says about its cloud strategy
Last week, Microsoft had four separate issues that knocked its cloud-based e-mail services offline for up to 9 hours. Those incidents highlight the most important thing to keep in mind when buying any cloud service ..

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/what-microsofts-online-outage-says-about-its-cloud-strategy/3308

Microsoft beefs up Office Web Apps

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20062609-75.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Pyramid: Why Windows Phone will beat Android

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20061820-75.html#ixzz1MQMsTXJa

Amazon cloud used in PlayStation Network hack

This isn't the first time that Amazon's EC2 service has been used by a third party for shady purposes. A German researcher showed earlier this year that one could use EC2 to launch brute-force attacks against a WPA-ASK-protected wireless network. For the grand cost of $1.68 and twenty minutes of time, Thomas Roth successfully forced his way into the secured network without issue. A brute-force attack isn't the most sophisticated of techniques, but it's certainly cheap, easy, and successful: Roth estimates that he'd be able to cut the time down to six minutes.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/amazon-cloud-used-in-playstation-network-hack-10022454/

Chromebook, Netbook, or iPad: Which to spend your $500 on?

 

http://news.cnet.com/chromebook-netbook-ipad-which-would-you-rather-spend-$500-on/8301-17938_105-20062229-1.html

Are Leaked iPhone 5G Cases a Sign Apple is 'iPad-izing' the iPhone?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385405,00.asp