The week in news: Big tech comes clean

	Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage | Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking
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	Privacy-conscious Apple suffering leaks in China Outsourcing to countries like China may save a company on employment and manufacturing costs, but those savings come at a price, a lesson that Apple continues to learn the hard way through its controversial relationship with Foxconn. Read More In this Issue Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking Microsoft's own numbers suggest declining Windows market share Developers' frustration with Android growing RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Is Microsoft Desktop Virtualization for you? Desktop Virtualization provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables companies to give their employees flexibility to work everywhere; simplifying compliance and management through a centralized and unified infrastructure. Learn how IT is empowering users with Desktop Virtualization with this on-demand roundtable. Click to continue Amazon comes clean about the great cloud outage It appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the EBS (Elastic Block Service) accidentally took up the entire network traffic in the U.S. East Region, overloading it, and jamming up the system. Read More Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking On Monday, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) asked both Apple and Google to testify at his hearing. Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and smartphones. Read More Microsoft's own numbers suggest declining Windows market share Microsoft bragged Friday that it had licensed 350 million copies of Windows 7, but that number doesn't even keep up with the total number of PCs sold. Read More Developers' frustration with Android growing The latest Appcelerator/IDC mobile survey has uncovered a growing well of frustration among Android developers, with underwhelming tablets, OS fragmentation and multiple app stores cited as the main worries. Read More
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