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The evil that IT does and the software silver bullet

We're all happier, more productive users now that the rise of clouds and apps has ended IT's dark rule ... right?

Why ‘innovation management’ isn’t an oxymoron

To foster innovation, IT leaders must balance blue-sky thinking and practical goals

Parallels says key to success is cloud virtualization, not Mac desktop virtualization

Containers in the cloud can provide increased density, elasticity, and scalability efficiencies

Box has been thinking outside of the cloud

Perhaps gearing up for an IPO, Box is becoming a collaboration platform for the enterprise

Google dives headfirst into robotics with Boston Dynamics buy

With robots like Atlas and BigDog, Boston Dynamics makes Google a big robotics player

Canada’s competition agency takes Google to court in antitrust investigation

The company has again come under fire for its search and advertising business practises

’60 MINS’ gives NSA wet kiss — MICROSOFT flavor o’ the month: Nadella — Sprint and T-Mobile HOOKING UP — VALLEY’s arrogance bubble

NSA debates amnesty for Edward Snowden

The NSA is worried about the unknown amount of information Snowden may have collected from NSA computers

Microsoft promises to fix Windows XP SVCHOST redlining ‘as soon as possible’

Microsoft finally posted explanation for the redlining, 100% CPU utilization lockup frustrating many Windows XP users

Oracle’s still the No. 1 database, but MySQL is on the rise

The DB-Engines site currently ranks Oracle as the top database, but it's losing ground to open source competition