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Video: How Google backs up the Internet

You think your company's backup needs are challenging? Google has an World Wide Web-sized backup plan

Forrester: HTML5 apps still not as good as native apps

FACEBOOK’s Super Bowl tweets more fun than game — Lots of talk about WHISPER — Hints of TWITTER commerce emerge — Secret to happiness in SEATTLE

VMware plays up network virtualization momentum in 2014

VMware NSX is in use by several major global brands, along with three of the top five investment banks

Windows 8.1 Update 1 leaks — to widespread yawns

Three-week-old version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 will leave you shaking your head; fortunately, another version awaits

Windows XP rules, at Windows 7 and 8’s expense

Internet usage for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 stagnate between December and January, even as XP's share grew

12 predictions for the future of programming

12 predictions for the future of programming

We gaze into our coding crystal ball to find the sure bets and intriguing developments developers should target in the next five years

Watch the utter destruction of hard drives holding Snowden’s data

In newly released footage, computer equipment belonging to the Guardian is destroyed by order of the U.K. government

Happy privacy news even paranoids could love

Perk up, buttercup -- the Blackphone and MIT researchers offer glimmers of hope amid our NSA- and hack-filled landscape