By David Sobotta

As cloud computing services become ever more popular, you might begin to wonder how much you can really trust them to perform when you need them? I decided to find out – by testing the top file-transfer/file-storage/file-backup services.

By Tero Kuittinen.

The new comScore smartphone market share numbers are out and the weirdest number by far is the Windows Phone market share shift between October and January, when it actually shrank by 0.1 percentage points over three months to 3.1%. Of course, Nokia’s (NOK) Lumia 920 has been one of AT&T’s (T) top 3 models for the past two months.

By Scott Nichols.

Finding new uses for the old Kinect.

By Tom Cheredar.

One of the many undying questions from web publishers, marketers, and regular web users is “what makes something go viral?” which, coincidentally, is also something Microsoft is working on.

By John Paczkowski.

If Microsoft is being coy about revealing Surface sales data, it may be for good reason.

By Will Shanklin.

Microsoft pinned a lot of hope on Surface. The company fell way behind in mobile, and it hoped its own tablet would spark a monumental comeback.

By Alex Wilhelm.

Oh, Microsoft. On the heels of growing momentum for its Windows Phone platform, Microsoft has managed to find more than enough space in its mouth to fit both its shod heels.

By Nick Summers.

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has issued a statement about the “Do Not Track” settings which will be used in version 10 of the Microsoft-owned Internet Explorer browser.

By Mike Lewis.

As social marketing champions, we at Awareness eagerly devour new reports on the state of the industry.

By Mary Branscombe.

The Surface tablets that Microsoft will start selling on 26 October at Microsoft Stores (and in temporary ‘holiday stores’ in twelve US cities including New York) are only the first of a planned family of Windows devices and Surface 2.0 is already under development.