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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced Monday a bevy of tablets and “smart device” were on their way from the company in the next “several months.” Ballmer made the announcement during his keynote speech at the open day of the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C.

As part of its Worldwide Partner Conference keynote today, Microsoft announced that the second public beta for its cloud-based PC management and security platform, Windows Intune, is now available.

Microsoft released a beta version of developer tools for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) to enable software makers build applications and games for WP7 devices.

It’s official: Google plans to debut its Chrome operating system in the fourth quarter of this year, although the company has yet to provide an exact launch date. Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management, made the announcement Wednesday at the Computex trade show in Taipei, according to IDC News.

Harbour MSP has joined the data centre rush with the announcement of a new facility in Melbourne.

The fall of Palm from groundbreaking innovator of handheld PDA’s, to ailing developer of capable-but-waning smartphones is complete with the announcement that HP will acquire Palm to the tune of $1.2 billion. The primary asset of Palm is the WebOS mobile platform–an asset that puts HP in a strong position to create a tablet device to compete with Apple’s iPad.

Advanced Micro Devices took another step towards the release of its Fusion family of microprocessors, with the announcement it’s extending an existing partner program to include channel partners that primarily sell to businesses, instead of consumers.

The announcement of Bloom Energy’s no-emissions energy server drew the world’s attention to Silicon Valley yesterday. But, even after the announcement and demonstration, many questions remain.

Since 1996, the whistleblower site Cryptome has been posting sensitive government and corporate documents. Now Cryptome has been stricken from the Web after releasing the Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook , a “spy guide” for law enforcement detailing what data Microsoft has, keeps, and can relinquish. Since most of you are Microsoft users, there are a few tidbits of information you’ll need to know before purchasing Xbox Live points, logging onto Office Live, or sending an e-mail through Hotmail.

Microsoft today withdrew its demand that Cryptome.org yank the “Microsoft Global Criminal Spy Guide” document from the site, and said it never intended for the whistleblower’s domain to be knocked offline.