Opinion

Open source startups: Don’t try to be Red Hat

VCs are realizing the next billion-dollar software company won't make money from software, but from what open source enables it to deliver

IPython founder details road map for interactive computing platform

Developer Fernando Perez says JavaScript and multi-user capabilities will be highlighted in coming upgrades of data analysis/visualization project

VIBER purchase = landline DOA — BITCOIN falls below $300 — VFW, Silk Road 2.0 HACKED — WINDOWS 8 tragedy — PANDO’s inconvenient truth

Pump or dump? Bitcoin’s moment of truth draws nigh

The question underscores bitcoin's problem: What started as an experiment in virtual currency is now a high-risk commodity

Meet AOSP, the other Android, while you still can

There's more to the Android ecosystem than the branded Android devices, though the future is iffy

3 CIO no-no’s when moving to the cloud

If you want your cloud efforts to fail or struggle, ignore these three warnings

Ultra-hip Elasticsearch hits commercial release

With 6 million-plus downloads, Elasticsearch is a major name in search and open source — even before yesterday's 1.0 release

BrandPost: Windows 8.1 first impressions

Is the update a viable business platform?

If UK health service can get XP extended, why can’t we?

Britain's National Health Service is negotiating with Microsoft to extend XP support by at least a year. Can we get in on that?

COMCAST boosts broadband lead with TWC — iTV! YouTV! (Maybe) — VERIZON data caps up, prices down — Android noses under MICROSOFT tent — $25M Gary V fund

As IT hiring slows, freelancers are getting more work

Your next job may be as a hired gun as more companies recruit outsiders to fill positions once held by full-time staffers

Glimmer of hope or dying embers? Net neutrality flares up again

Politicos get behind Net neutrality with the Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014, but the real power lies with us

How I learned to stop worrying and love my creepy smartphone

As our contextual information reaches the cloud, smartphones will get more personal and anticipate everything we want

Famo.us: We’re building a better PhoneGap

The JavaScript/HTML wizards look to top Adobe's mobile dev framework by using the same core technology in a slick new way

Google and VMware advance plans for the death of the desktop

VMware's Horizon View partners with Google's Chromebooks as both outfits seek to make the most of the waning desktop PC

Video: John Oliver chews up, spits out techies at TechCrunch Awards

Uber, commuter buses, out-of-touch execs — 'The Daily Show' vet leaves no target untouched in Crunchies opening remarks

Microsoft needs to explain changes made in Windows 8/8.1 apps

Microsoft doesn't publish changelogs for updates, with chilling implications — because there's no way out of a bad Metro patch

Largest-ever DDoS strike rocks CLOUDFLARE — China’s censors to enlist MICROSOFT? — KLOUT scores $100M — ALIBABA coming to America — TWITTER apes Facebook

Google Cloud SQL debuts, following Amazon’s RDS lead

After lengthy limited beta, Google's MySQL database hits general availability, offering more storage and SLA-backed uptime

Big data demands more than commodity hardware

A Hadoop cluster of white-box servers isn't the only platform for big data. IBM's Dexter Henderson argues that enterprise analytics require specialized, high-performance iron

Developer survey: HTML5 gaining, Windows slipping

In Sencha poll, developers say they want to build with HTML5 technologies, while desktop interest dips

Building a private cloud? Don’t overlook orchestration

Using virtualization does not automatically mean you have a private cloud, contrary to popular belief

Sorry about that virus — I didn’t want to bother you

If it's not one virus alert, it's another, especially when the accounting manager's short-term memory goes MIA

BrandPost: The top 8 changes to Windows 8

Are you ready to upgrade your OS?

The key knowledge gap hindering your cloud

SOA foundations go a long way in cloud computing

Report paints bleak picture for IT jobs in 2014

Employment report shows 1,400 IT jobs were lost in January, hiring is at a standstill, and IT wages lack growth

Digital NSA protest day — NOKIA pimps Android ride — HP says ‘no free firmware’ — BITCOIN: growing pains or death rattle? — MS BUS protests in Seattle

Scorecard: Windows 8.1 Update 1 fails the Windows Red test

In the battle of Windows 8 fixes, Microsoft falls far short of InfoWorld's expectations in its latest OS update

North Korea switched from Windows to OS X — should you?

As the PC market wavers, the Mac may dominate it despite poor Microsoft apps

The key knowledge gap hindering your cloud

SOA is critical to effective cloud computing, most people who build cloud don't have a clue about SOA or its principles

Visual Basic.Net on the upswing with developers

Microsoft programming language climbs into the top 10 of monthly Tiobe language popularity index

Let us now bury Sony and Flappy Bird, not praise them

Unlike those quitters, real tech leaders like Microsoft, AOL, and Dell hang on, market share and analyst reaction be damned

Hadoop made easier, courtesy of Red Hat and Hortonworks

Red Hat and Hortonworks join forces to make Hadoop easily deployable across public and private clouds

VMTurbo drives the software-defined data center

Company expands Operations Manager across storage with support for NetApp and FlexPod, across compute fabric with support for Cisco's UCS platform

The sorry state of Windows 8.1 Update 1

If you're hoping for some relief with Windows 8.1 Update 1, you're in for a not-very-pleasant surprise

BITCOIN flaw flagged — Top Windows analyst curses MICROSOFT — SNOWDEN jacked NSA with basic crawler — AWS mystery bandwidth THROTTLE

Top 5 technology failures of government

The United States faces difficult problems, but these five threaten to derail the nation's technological and economic leadership

Java 8 will likely strip out Stripped Implementations

Oracle executive cites licensing issues and platform fragmentation as obstacles, will consider it for Java 9

Apache Libcloud: One Python library for all clouds

Open source library also supports block and object storage, key management, load balancing, and CDN features

Did you hear the one about the tech-savvy senator?

Trick question: They don't exist! Yet they still try to enact stupid laws governing technology they don't understand

Where PCI compliance fails: Security testing, network monitoring

Verizon report shows better, if incomplete, PCI compliance, but also raises long-standing questions about the standard

BrandPost: Take advantage of VDI technology upgrades with Windows 8

Learn more about these beneficial changes

IBM ponders further makeover — GOOGLE’s pride doodle — TWITTER mum on its ‘dark pool’ — SILICON VALLEY arrogance — BITCOIN tumbles

No, a phablet version will not save the iPhone

Everyone is telling Apple it needs a big-screen iPhone to rekindle sales — but a look at the data shows that won't work

The 3 stages of cloud computing resistance

Some IT departments follow a familiar pattern when it comes to cloud computing — it's time to change that

Retro repo SourceForge learns new tricks

Reacting to feedback, SourceForge has improved its revenue-sharing download service for open source projects

Adobe Flash: Insecure, outdated, and here to stay

Given its lax security and incompatibility with mobile, Flash should be gone — but it lingers for reasons that are tough to get past

Microsoft finds its leader — now good luck on finding a vision

New CEO Satya Nadella must articulate, execute an innovative vision for Microsoft or risk following the path of Tim Cook

The mobile data explosion: All signs point upward

Mobile data usage in 2013 almost doubled year over year, says Cisco, and tiered pricing hasn't had the affect you'd expect

The dirty truth about big data and NoSQL

As the supply of high-concurrency, low-cost, flexible data storage increases, so will demand