- China approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility
- HP's layoff plans and what they mean
- How to avoid 5 common email management mistakes
- iPhone 5 rumors for the week ending May 18
- Anonymous hater claims responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS attack
Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012
Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking, and big data analytics.
2012 Outlook: The end of everything?
Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ...
Windows 8 can scrub data from disk, but not up to tough security specifications
Windows 8 includes a reset function that restores the operating system to a clean state and scrubs data applications from the disk, but falls short of making that data unrecoverable, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft researcher: Passwords aren't dead but they need fixing
Password use needs an overhaul that is driven not by guesswork but by actually understanding the real damage that can be done when password security is compromised, according to a Microsoft researcher.
Tips from IT professionals on how to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues
Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their top IT issues and what they do to handle them.
Is vulnerability an objective?
I ended last year with a death-of-the-Internet column, and I'm starting off the new year with a death-via-the-Internet one.
5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012
2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth.
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday.