This raises an interesting debate: should collaboration technologies be a separate vertical stack of tools with links to and from existing tools?

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Dr Mahathir can stack his cabinet with loyalists, who would then be in a strong position to win top party jobs.

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But how long will it be until the average homemaker will trust a walking stack of silicon components with sorting laundry or chopping vegetables for dinner?

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Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.

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