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The latest of Microsoft’s mega cloud computing facilities cost $550 million and takes up nearly half a million square feet.

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After Google’s Android, a gPod?–Now that the Google brand has entered the world’s top 10, what kind of products might company think of marketing?

Robot prototypes battle for cash prize in Singapore–TechX Challenge, the Singapore death-bot battle, has spit out six finalists who are competing for a prize and a chance to further city state’s vision of an army on autopilot.

Is that really your buddy on IM–All the responses from your friends’ computer may not actually be coming from your friend. Some may be inserted by malicious software running on your friend’s computer.

MIT wheelchair steers clear with Wi-Fi–Wheelchair with memory can self-navigate to any preset location. But instead of relying on a satellite signal like GPS, it uses Wi-Fi and can work indoors.

Can’t keep up with the profusion of Google blogs? Company offers two new ways: an iGoogle gadget and a directory.

Google’s strength is that it has no firm grounding on the desktop, allowing it to build out the Web in ways that injure incumbent vendors like Microsoft.

The new f/1.4 lens has better optical performance, but it’ll cost more. Also: Nikon says it built 5 million lenses in the last year and 45 million over its history.

After creating a network of wildly popular blogs for the Us Weekly crowd, the company is letting its users create their own Sugar-hosted blogs–and import existing ones.

A small but influential group of open-source entrepreneurs are double-timing their startups, which might be just what the doctor ordered.

Software maker forms plans to buy back stock through 2013, boost its quarterly dividend by 18 percent. Hewlett-Packard also announces a buyback program, of up to $8 billion.

TechX challenges Singapore robot builders.

Will “share” buttons on stories supplant the popularity of the aggregation powerhouses? The real trick, of course, will be for ShareThis to succeed financially.