Opinion

Nginx joins the big leagues in Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu Server 14.04 is set to include Nginx Web server as standard, along with the old favorite Apache

The private cloud is giving way to the public cloud

Public clouds have matured greatly in recent years and are often the better architectural choice, as well as better value

It’s time to get over the BYOD obsession

IT's New Year's resolution should be about enablement, not fighting yesterday's wars

Surprise winner tops JavaScript and Objective-C in popularity

Transact-SQL claims victory over programming mainstays in Tiobe's language popularity index for 2013

New year, new you: The IT slob’s road map for 2014

Predictions, schmedictions — here are the real changes we IT workhorses can expect in the new year

IBM’s homomorphic encryption could revolutionize security

IBM gets a patent on an encryption method that could make it possible to run fully encrypted programs or VMs without first decrypting them

Snapchat and Skype get HACKED — NYT defends SNOWDEN — NEST raises $150M at $2B value — SWISHER & MOSSBERG’s Re/code debuts

10 likely nightmares for 2014

From China hacking the cloud to Oracle becoming open source enemy No. 1, these dark predictions should be allowed to marinate slowly

More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era

With Jon DeVaan and Grant George officially retired and most of rest of Windows 8 team out to pasture, Microsoft silently acknowledges complete lack of faith in Windows 8

10 likely nightmares for 2014

From China hacking the cloud to Oracle becoming open source enemy No. 1, these dark predictions should be allowed to marinate slowly

My 3 favorite tools for migrating to Office 365

More users are moving to Office 365, but they're finding a few areas that require some help. These three tools can bridge the gaps

The 5 mobile technologies to watch in 2014

64-bit apps, motion coprocessors, iBeacons, Miracast, and MBaaS all could be on the brink of achieving great things

5 cloud computing takeaways for 2013

In 2013, cloud computing took a step closer to becoming the default computing platform, with breakthrough technologies accelerating the trend

Scaling and querying large NoSQL databases

The NoSQL revolution has happened so fast, few have a handle on the key architectural issues. Rahim Yaseen of Couchbase walks us through several crucial points

Flame wars! The hottest Microsoft topics of 2013

These 10 topics hit home for many readers, as their passionate responses show

Protect our privacy! A pact for 2014

Stop smoking, exercise more, lose weight — and guard our privacy? This New Year's resolution can succeed if we work together

Better angels: 7 tech tycoons who gave very, very generously

Not all of tech's nouveau riches are selfish bozos — some have donated hundreds of millions to research in medical science, hospitals, and universities

Keeping Up with Microsoft

How You Can Benefit from Their Accelerating Product Update Schedule

All I want for Christmas from Santa Cloud

Although I'd love to see a lot of cloud goodies under the tree, a few gift ideas top the list

Even on cruise control, mobile still blew past the PC

The irony is that as smartphones and tablets slowed to PC-like innovation they overtook PCs in sales

Should everyone learn how to code?

The gap is growing between the number of programming jobs versus qualified software developers to fill them

Should everyone learn how to code?

Developers scoff at the idea for good reason. But as the gap grows between the number of programming jobs and qualified coders to fill them, we need to inspire those who have potential

Asm.js JavaScript subset picks up the pace against C/C++

Mozilla-backed Asm.js narrows the performance gap with C/C++, cutting the speed advantage in half

Give thanks for technology that actually works

With an occupation that's immersed in solving problems, it's not a bad idea to contemplate now and again what goes right

You shouldn’t have! Secret Santas of Silicon Valley

They're (relatively) young, smart, and loaded — so what gifts might tech's secret Santas hand out this year? Here's a guess

MAC supply chain breaks — EU wants GOOGLE to pay up — VERIZON stands up to feds — WHATSAPP hits 400M users — More calls for Valley to SECEDE

Blame a bad cloud deployment on the CIO, not the provider

Even in today's maturing cloud market, there are poor products from naive or opportunistic vendors — weed them out up front

The NSA’s other victim: U.S. business competitiveness

The impact of NSA intrusion on our civil liberties can't be overstated — but damage to America's business reputation is serious, too

Edward Snowden has stripped us of all illusion about our digital world

There can no longer be an illusion that our information is private or used only for good purposes

Mobile app developers’ interest in HTML5 is slipping

Quarterly survey of developers also finds NSA revelations are not having much impact on mobile development in the U.S.

10 things you don’t need to worry about in 2014

Your programming job is not on the line in 2014 – and neither is Google Glass

OBAMA panel yanks NSA leash — Your MacBook’s CAMERA says ‘Hi’ — TARGET skunked by huge skim scam — LYFT growing faster than Uber

Microsoft yanks second botched Surface update in as many months

Microsoft pulls the bad December firmware update for the Surface Pro 2 — with no hint as to when a fix is coming or what afflicted customers should do

The brewing iPhone war: It’s Apple vs. the carriers

Ma Bell and the Cupertino Colossus are prepping for a bloody fight over iPhone prices and subsidies — it won't be pretty

10 things you don’t need to worry about in 2014

The more things change, the more they stay the same, especially when marketing bots make grandiose predictions. Here's what'll stay put in the coming year

Video: Meet the homeless man who learned how to code

Leo Grand had been living on the streets when he learned some coding and, ultimately, built and launched a mobile app

Chrome OS’s best new use case: The all-in-one PC

LG's Chromebase PC looks like a good fit for public computers as well as modest end-user machines

China rejects BITCOIN — META PRO challenges Google Glass — New MAC PRO goes on sale — Former Microsoft exec to RESCUE Healthcare.gov

Our searches, ourselves: The year’s top tweets, trends, and more

Behold the biggest topics on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo in 2013 — you have no one to blame but yourself

4 ways network virtualization improves security

Network virtualization is not only essential to a mature cloud infrastructure, it also beefs up security, argues VMware's Rod Stuhlmuller

IDC: Job growth for pro developers to slow

After major gains since 2011, there are now nearly 20 million software developers worldwide — a third of whom are hobbyists

Expect a season of new beginnings from Microsoft in 2014

The wave of product updates may be drawing to a close, but the very direction of Microsoft's technology is shifting this year

Go Google Go! A language on full throttle

Java frameworks still rule the roost, but Go and Facebook's new HHVM PHP environment are gaining fast

Steal this data: Volunteer spies in the night

It's no ordinary day on the job when a tech team is sent on a top-secret mission to copy a suspect user's computer files

Microsoft ‘compiler-as-a-service’ project emerging from secrecy

'Roslyn' under development since 2011, and recent Microsoft blog post hints rewrite of Visual Basic and C# compilers could preview soon

Hold onto your (red) hat: Fedora 20 is out

Latest version of Red Hat's edition of Linux has ARM support, JBoss and Ruby on Rails updates, and much more

SNOWDEN seeks asylum in Brazil — Judge: NSA violated Constitution — QUALCOMM ‘freaking out’ — GOOGLE poaches machine genius — Obama calls Digerati to office

When a smartphone is not a smartphone, and a tablet is not a tablet

Like PCs, mobile devices have many types of use — which don't necessarily map to market share stats

3 surefire ways to screw up a cloud deployment

From migrating the wrong applications to not understanding governance, it's easy to blow things up in the cloud

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?