VietNamNet Bridge – Right after Windows 8 made its debut in the Vietnamese market, technology firms have also marketed laptop models with touch screens, priced at between 8 million and 20 million dong.

Not all social networks work well as professional networks. (I'm looking at you, Facebook.) But there's no question that businesses—especially small ones and startups—could benefit greatly from a social network with a professional bent.

Most cloud storage services already offer apps for accessing their servers from every major platform, but Microsoft is taking the model one step further by weaving its cloud storage service directly into Windows 8—if not every major component of the new Windows universe, including Windows Phone 8 and the new Office Web app.

Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned.

The managed file transfer (MFT) industry has a players ranging from big-name tech titans to up-and-coming next-generation cloud-based vendors. Below is a list of some, but not all, players in this industry and a brief description.

The $1549 (as of 11/07/2012) Xerox Phaser 6700/DN produces some of the smoothest photos you’ll see from a workgroup color laser printer, albeit a little orangey until you tweak the palette. It's also fast, and it offers lots of paper capacity. The price of supplies is very inexpensive, with the price per four-color page as low as 8.6 cents (with high-yield supplies).

A preview version of Microsoft's Skype for Windows Phone 8 is now available delivering exclusive features to the mobile OS and raising some privacy eyebrows. Skype is Microsoft's free VoIP app and was recently announced to be the successor to Windows Live Messenger , the company's instant messenger service.

Microsoft will shine the spotlight this week on SharePoint's new 2013 version at a conference devoted to the popular collaboration server, but recently-acquired Yammer may grab substantial attention.

Nearly one in four PC users run out-of-date or obsolete versions of the most popular browsers for a month or longer with Mozilla Firefox users the slowest to update their software, Kaspersky Lab has found.

Holiday wish lists may deal another blow to the PC industry, according to a new survey.