Want to Organize Your Email? Go for High Thread Count, Not Folders.

It’s Clean Out Your Inbox Week! But hang on — you don’t necessarily want to go folder-crazy.
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Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog

If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon’s Web Services? Google’s cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? How about Microsoft?

Intel Slashes Sales Outlook by $1 Billion on Hard Drive Shortage

With PC sales suffering from the shortage of hard drives caused by flooding in Thailand, Intel slashes its sales expectations for the quarter.
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Activision Raises Outlook After Reporting Strong Call of Duty Preorders

Activision reported that an unprecedented level of preorders for its first-person shooter, Call of Duty, will help it annihilate previous expectations for the fourth quarter.
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As Skype Skips Through Approvals — What’s the Deal With the Deal?

As the deal officially closes, what’s next?
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Cisco Shares Climb as Analysts Give a Tentative Thumbs Up

Analysts are giving a cautious stamp of approval after Cisco Systems reset its growth expectations for the next three years. They also seem to like how Cisco has picked a fight with Juniper.
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Microsoft Offers Big Money to Nudge Resellers Into the Cloud

The software giant wants its resellers to start pushing the cloud on their customers, and today committed $5.8 billion in incentives and other enticements to do it.
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Texas Instruments Cuts Outlook, Citing Nokia

Semiconductor maker Texas Instruments Inc. reduced its expectations for the second quarter because of weaker demand from wireless customer Nokia Corp.

Xobni Launches App Market Using OpenSocial

Xobni, the email-as-a-platform company, is opening up its Microsoft Outlook sidebar app to other developers. The sidebar will now include a “Gadget Store” with free and paid apps like Evernote, Yammer, Facebook and Salesforce.

Strong ARM Delivers Results

U.K. chip designer ARM once again delivered the goods, Wednesday reporting solid first quarter results ahead of market expectations on the back of its processor business. It’s also quietly confident about the outlook; reiterating its annual revenue guidance.

Record Earnings for Dell

Cisco Shareholders Scramble for Sick Bags