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Cynthia Harvey

Cynthia Harvey is a freelance writer and editor based in the Detroit area. She has been covering the technology industry for more than fifteen years.

Apple Unveils a Host of Updated Products, Along with the iPad Mini

Everyone expected Apple to unveil the iPad Mini at its Tuesday press event, but the company gave attendees a...

Facebook Shares Rise After Better-Than-Expected Revenue

On Tuesday, Facebook reported its first good financial news in a long time. The company's third quarter revenue grew...

Multiple Vendors Roll Out New Hadoop Offerings

Multiple vendors, including Microsoft, IBM and Cloudera, have made major Hadoop-related announcements this week. And VMware's Serengeti Project is...

Surface RT Tablet Gets Mixed Reviews

Microsoft's Surface RT tablet will hit store shelves Friday, but several reviewers have already had a chance to try...

Amazon Web Services Experiences Outage

On Monday, Amazon Web Services' North Virginia data center experienced yet another outage, knocking many popular websites offline. By...

Yahoo Beats Expectations in Mayer’s First Quarter as CEO

On Monday, Yahoo turned in a solid financial report for the third quarter. In her first quarterly conference call,...

Gartner Predicts Tech Spending Will Hit $3.7 Trillion Next Year

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, senior VP Peter Sondergaard predicted that tech spending will continue to rise in the coming...

Rackspace Launches Cloud Block Storage

Open source cloud computing vendor Rackspace has announced the availability of a new cloud storage offering. Called "Cloud Block...

Critics Take Aim at the Windows 8 Interface

Later this week, Microsoft will officially debut its Windows 8 operating system, and the success or failure of the...

HP Service Anywhere Takes the IT Help Desk to the Cloud

HP has launched a new product aimed at moving the enterprise help desk into the cloud. Called HP Service...