Opinion

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

San Francisco startup Famo.us is doing amazing things with JavaScript, radically raising the bar on what cross-platform Web and mobile apps can do

The hidden challenges of using cloud backup to replace tape

Replacing tape backup with cloud backup raises all sorts of thorny issues

Trouble’s brewing in Android land

Indications of desperation at Samsung, chaos at HTC, and reduced focus at Google suggest Android faces rough sailing

3 rules for getting top enterprise cloud performance

Even though they're derived from proven principles, these rules are often ignored by cloud deployers

Continuous delivery revs up software updates

Implementing the concept can automate software delivery, but companywide buy-in is needed

D-Link’s backdoor: What else is in there?

The backdoor discovered recently in D-Link routers is the last example of the company's lax stance on security

The shutdown gets real for science and high tech

Think the shutdown only hits panda cams and national parks? Hardly — scientific research will feel impact for years to come

Greed is good: 9 open source secrets to making money

How open source companies are embracing self-interest — and winning

FACEBOOK buys Israeli mobile player — MICROSOFT’s Windows Phone update — NETFLIX on the cable clicker? — Senior TWITTER dev earns, um, $10M

Google Glass: Yes, it’s that bad

I craved a Google Glass until I wore one, when I found out it's an idea whose time hasn't come yet

Old NFS is the new darling in virtualization

The resurgence of NFS in virtual environments shows that some good ideas do not fade away

How federal cronies built — and botched — Healthcare.gov

Many contractors for Healthcare.gov site seem to have been picked based on past government work rather than IT expertise

Video: How to hack PHP sites with SQL injection

The elegant simplicity of PHP leaves it open to an elegantly simple attack

Groovy breaks into top 20 list of programming languages

Dynamic JVM language claims small share in Tiobe's popularity index, but ranking jumps dramatically over the past year

‘Core Internet institutions’ snub U.S. government

ICANN, IETF, WWWC, and regional Internet address registries call for globalization of Internet functions, away from exclusive U.S. government oversight

ANDROID swallows Google TV — ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ swats ‘fruit flies’ — Lawmakers target x-device tracking — ZUCK stymies developers

Goodbye, tracking cookies? Don’t celebrate just yet

Microsoft and Google are both rumored to be working on replacement ad-tracking technologies, but maybe cookies are the lesser of two evils

Complex clouds must be managed with automation

Native cloud interfaces don't scale in real-world business deployments — so spring for a cloud management system

The end of the CIO as we know it — and IT feels fine

Fifteen years after it became a top-level job, the CIO notion no longer makes sense in the emerging post-IT world

GNU’s novel proposal: A cloud that puts privacy first

As Richard Stallman's GNU Project turns 30, the Free Software Foundation aims for a cloud that foils state-sponsored snooping

Tech sector shrugs as shutdown drags on

The silence by most tech giants is puzzling given the industry’s high stakes in government IT

Where you can’t (and can) get government data during the shutdown

Here's a rundown of what major government data sources are still offline and how to work around some of them

PC shipments CRATER again — APPLE phablet coming? — CHROMEBOOK pushes price envelope — FOXACID secret server program — WHITMAN lashes at WINTEL — Selfie surgery

PC shipments crater and tablets are the bogeymen

Worldwide PC shipments fell in Q3 for the worst back-to-school quarter in five years. The holidays won't be much better

Ruby scripting language makes embedded play

Main Ruby version, however, is viewed by founder Yukihiro Matsumoto as needing only minor improvements

Another botched Black Tuesday: KB 2878890 patch brings back two-year-old KB 951847 — repeatedly

Microsoft's four-month body count: 23 bad patches. It's past time for Microsoft to improve the quality of its Automatic Updates

JavaScript killed the Flash player plug-in star

Mozilla's Shumway project promises to eliminate Flash plug-ins, replace them with pure HTML5/JavaScript-based solution

Why MongoDB is worth $1.2 billion

If document database startup MongoDB is looking to thank someone for its hefty valuation, Larry Ellison should be first in line

Why the pundits are wrong, wrong, wrong about Apple

Can a company that sells 9 million iPhones in 72 hours really be under siege? In a word: No

Meet Lavabit’s founder: An American hero hiding in plain sight

Ladar Levison rebuffed government demands for total access to his secure email service — and lost his livelihood as a result

Firefox OS 1.1 needs more of a boost to soar

Mozilla's contender for the budget mobile space claims performance boosts and new features, but is still missing too much

Apple’s US mobile surge may not translate to rest of the world

Apple smartphones are No. 1 in the US and iOS is gaining share, but Google's Android platform continues to dominate across the globe

New iPAD & OSX Mavericks debut Oct. 22 — BALLMER loading Office on iPad (eventually) — Raspberry Pi rising — DORSEY work for FACEBOOK?

New Windows 7 feature in KB 2852386 reclaims wasted space on your C: drive

Microsoft's new patch lets you clean up Windows bloat from earlier patches and quickly reclaim 1GB to 3GB of space

Making broadband business-ready

Hughes Networks systems offers a new quality of service solution to raise broadband reliability to business levels

Microsoft’s enterprise cloud strategy begins to take shape

A wave of new offerings shows that Redmond is serious about dominating public and hybrid clouds

How many backups are enough? One more than you planned for

Minor details and misunderstandings expose the cracks in a techie's carefully calibrated backup plan

Windows Server 2012 R2: It’s Azure Lite

Microsoft's newly updated server operating system and tools sport more of Azure's feature set, writ small for private clouds

IT experts: HealthCare.gov is still a mess

Experts see issues in front and back ends of problem-plagued health care portal; fixes are likely in government hands

FED pours $$ into MS CLOUD — NSA data center melts down — FOX NEWS goes big big screen — ERIC SCHMIDT, jokester — XP stays alive

Microsoft’s new wave of server products all the more Azure-centric

Enterprise Agreement customers get discounts on Azure; SQL Server 2013 and Windows Server 2012 R2 to have Azure extensions

Heed these 10 expert tips for mobile app design

Too many iOS and Android apps are hard to use due to poor design — follow this advice to make sure your app isn't one of them

The 10 hottest JavaScript framework projects

Community strength is a huge factor is determining which JavaScript framework to adopt. Here's a close look at the activity swirling around AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Ember.js, and more

3 barriers between Amazon Web Services and businesses

Amazon Web Services is a huge success, but three obstacles have slowed enterprise adoption of the No. 1 cloud provider

The Steve Ballmer farewell tour is officially under way

Microsoft's soon-to-be-ex CEO couldn't leave without sending a final shareholders' letter, full of platitudes and empty phrases

Pivotal adds mobile platform development with Xtreme Labs acquisition

VMware- and EMC-backed startup moves beyond cloud, big data, and platform as a service by adding mobile to the mix

Google’s new desktop strategy: Invade and conquer

Google's new strategy to make Chrome OS into everyone's OS: Build it straight into Windows by way of Chrome itself

Fed may auction seized BITCOINS — ‘PRISM on steroids’ for Sochi Olympics — TWITTER hiding financial data — MONGODB takes NYC with $1.2B valuation

BlackBerry shareholder sues, claims company misled investors

Lawsuit alleges BlackBerry deceived its stockholders about the company's future, but allegations of fraud may be hard to prove

Enterprise architecture shows its business value

In the fourth annual <a href="/t/enterprise-architecture/2013-infoworldforrester-enterprise-architecture-awards-228248">Enterprise Architecture Awards</a>, we recognize five companies whose EA practice ha