Opinion

Man or myth: The $3 million Google engineer

Is there really a software engineer at Google making $3 million a year? Maybe, but it would be unusual

Windows 9 due in April 2015, but coding hasn’t started yet

Windows guru Paul Thurrott says Microsoft is going back to the Windows drawing board after the Vista-level flop of Windows 8

Full speed ahead: Oracle to ship Java 8 in March, even with bugs

Company to focus on 'showstopper' bugs between now and then in JDK 8, and wait to fix lesser bugs later

Windows 8.1 pirate beta due any time, but it’s a yawner

The Windows 8.1 Update 1 leak is imminent, but a worthwhile upgrade is still at least a year out

Big data analytics star in VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 update

Log aggregation, analytics, and search platform adds support for Active Directory; improves content pack infrastructure

Coming soon: Control your computer with your brain via open source

Funds pour in for Kickstarter project to create an open source interface through which your brain controls your computer

James Gosling grades Oracle’s handling of Sun’s technology

The Java founder assesses how well Oracle has managed the technologies it acquired in the four years since it bought Sun

RIP, information security, done in by backdoors and secret deals

It seems that the very tools we use to secure our networks represent the greatest insider threat of all

Patent trolls target their next victim: Cloud computing

Cloud computing's success has caught the attention of patent trolls — so the Open Invention Networks is gearing for battle

Fear factor: Improve ALM or suffer software failure

IDC and other experts say companies need to get their acts together on software development processes

Your 2014 heat map for enterprise technology

Slept through CES 2014? You didn't miss much. The real action is behind the scenes in enterprise technology, where old models are being smashed as ingenious new tech emerges

Sense Mother, may I? The most disturbing tech of CES

What do our gadgets say about us? Probably too much, judging by the invasive and provocative goods seen in Las Vegas

The Microsoft Licensing Corner #1

Are you at risk for compliance drift?

2014 isn’t looking any better for IT jobs

Hiring for IT jobs slowed in 2013, and 2014 doesn't bode much better, thanks to continued decrease in overall labor market

GOOGLE annoys with Gmail+ — 70M TARGET customers hacked — Overstock.com, Singapore taking BITCOIN — PCs suffer ‘worst decline’ ever — SNAPCHAT apologizes (sorta)

PC shipments in 2013 dropped precipitously — and the future’s murky

Though Gartner's and IDC's predictions collided with cold, hard reality in 2013, they're oddly optimistic about PCs in 2014

Eureka! New tech shrinks cloud computing’s carbon footprint

Computer scientists say they have created the algorithms needed to make both public and private cloud computing greener

Facebook’s secret to shipping millions of lines of code each day

It's no secret at all. After hacking PHP to make it run faster, Facebook does the same with Mercurial source control

CES 2014: Desperately seeking life after the PC

As the focus of the tech industry shifts from old computing forms, vendors at CES cast a wide net for the Next Big Thing

Dead again: BlackBerry sinks hopes for a resurrection

New CEO John Chen is saying all the wrong things his predecessors did and killing all glimmers of hope

Real tech at CES? The rumors are true

Beyond the shiny TVs and smart kitchen goods, CES 2014 offered true tech breakthroughs too. Check out the highlights

Novena whips up an open source laptop from scratch

Novena Project aims to create an entirely open source laptop, from the iron down to the bits, and a prototype already exists

What’s the best programming language to learn first?

9 technologies for a supercharged 2014

Get to know the database and PaaS technologies that will run the enterprise in 2014

T-MOBILE talks speed, bargains, trash — EU, Canada snub US companies over NSA — Digital MOVIE sales surge — Snapchat for SUITS

Xen Mirage: The less-is-more cloud OS

Mirage provides an OS pared to its barest essentials for cloud operations, but its dependency on OCaml language may limit its utility

How two cities brought fiber to the home when the carriers couldn’t

Think government can't provide cheap, efficient, high-speed connectivity? Two very different locales show it can

9 technologies for a supercharged 2014

Time to walk the talk — make sure your company is grabbing 2014 by the horns and taking advantage of today's incredible tools

For four-eyes only: The Google Glass future is here

Google started it; now the peeper parade has taken over CES, where several strains of smart glasses litter the show floor

Red Hat and CentOS: You scratch my back, I scratch yours

Q: Why would Red Hat want to work with the makers of a free community build of its own software? A: Lots of reasons

TOSHIBA’s 5-in-1 PC — YAHOO increases vertical — LINKEDIN sues parasites — USERS sue Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo — BIZ STONE’s new Jelly

Microsoft pulls the plug on Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP

Microsoft has suddenly decided you won't be able to install Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows XP after April 8

Stand back — major mouse dissection in progress

In tech support, it never hurts to clarify exactly what you mean, especially the terms that seem obvious to you

Cloud storage controllers soothe cloud anxiety

Cloud storage sounds great until performance, availability, and security concerns arise. As Ranajit Nevatia of Panzura explains, cloud storage controllers offer an elegant prescription

Moving to Office 365? Dig deep into your options first

Microsoft has a handy tool for comparing options, but you need to use it carefully to get accurate answers

How am I doing? GitHub lets developers visualize project stats

GitHub Traffic Analytics service gives developers insight into interest in their projects

The spies you’ll wear: When big data gets too personal

Vendors at CES are pushing wearables as big data generators — and possibly hammering the final nail in privacy's coffin

Microsoft Licensing: Untangled

Are you struggling to make sense of your Microsoft licensing situation? PC Connection is here to help you gain clarity and control.

Apple still king of mobile apps with over $10 billion in App Store sales

Apple may have the minority mobile share, but it monetizes iOS via mobile app sales far more effectively than Google Play

Programmers without TDD will be unemployable by 2022

INTEL tries on wearables — APPLE AppStore sets $10B record — 1B DROIDS to ship in 2014 — 3D PRINTER in every pot — SCHNEIER gets a day job

Android + Windows 8 = Windows Super-Frankenstein

Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and the PC makers' desperation has led them to a three-headed Franken-PC

3 key tips cloud providers won’t tell you about app migration

These best practices will keep you from wasting time and money in your cloud migration — but few people know them

How the NSA was able to snoop on our email

Mathematician Edward Frenkel explains the mechanics behind the NSA's snooping

Nvidia Tegra K1 processor isn’t just for games

The company's '192-core' Tegra processor is a possible play for ARM in the data center

Big brains, small minds: The troubling vision of Silicon Valley’s elites

Tech mogul or movie villain? Well, they both want private islands, exempt from ethical, legal, or even logical standards

The Android ‘un-PC’ is no real threat to the PC

Flood of Android notebooks and even desktops at CES 2014 bode well for Android, but they still can't replace a full-featured PC

10 big virtualization and cloud stories from 2013

2013 saw big news around acquisitions, community takeovers, new products, new markets, product deaths, and more FUD

NSA won’t deny SPYING on Congress — ANDROID eats world: Laptops, desktops, and cars — EVERNOTE gets slammed — ZYNGA takes Bitcoin — SIRI hates ‘Her’

Windows plus Android: A solution to a non-problem?

The biggest pre-CES rumor says Asus and others will combine Android and Windows on a device, but the idea has inspired more head scratching than enthusiasm