Week in Review: Madness, iPadness and joblessness

published 4 June 2010

Making Microsoft mad

Steve Ballmer and his Microsoft colleagues have been busy biting back at the competition this week.

After Google employees revealed the search giant's workers will be ditching Windows because of security concerns, a Microsoft communications manager said Google has its own security flaws to worry about.

Ballmer himself responded to Steve Jobs' suggestion that PCs are on their deathbed with a much more positive stance.

All three of the tech big boys were squeezed into one headline, as rumour had it Microsoft's Bing search engine may replace Google as the default on Apple's next-gen iPhone.

What's an iPad?

Tablets were yet again under the spotlight this week as the Dell Streak was launched across the UK check out our Need to Know here.

Elsewhere, Asus confirmed it was getting a tablet ready.

Oh and sales of something called the iPad hit the two million mark. Can this many people be wrong about the device's credentials?

Best of the rest...

Facebook couldn't keep away from controversy this week, with Bangladesh banning it and Zuckerburg busy defending the much scrutinised privacy changes.

The recession still hasn't disappeared from view as HP announced job cuts and a number of IT workers at RBS were told their jobs could be at risk.

In more upbeat developments, the world took another big step towards the quantum computer with the invention of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode. Exciting times.

Tom Brewster is currently an associate editor at Forbes and an award-winning journalist who covers cyber security, surveillance, and privacy. Starting his career at ITPro as a staff writer and working up to a senior staff writer role, Tom has been covering the tech industry for more than ten years and is considered one of the leading journalists in his specialism.

He is a proud alum of the University of Sheffield where he secured an undergraduate degree in English Literature before undertaking a certification from General Assembly in web development.

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