Opinion

Google vs. the Grim Reaper in the fight for your life

Google takes on death itself with Calico, its new data-driven company on a mission to extend the human lifespan

iOS 7 into the wild, iPhone sales brisk — MOSSBERG: 5S ‘best smartphone’ — GOOGLE gives up cookies — More tech IPOs BUBBLING up — RIP Wayne Green

Microsoft kills OEM/System Builder and upgrade editions of Windows

Users who act now can save a bundle by upgrading from XP or Windows 7 before Windows 8.1 hits the streets

Windows 8.1 Enterprise is up on MSDN, TechNet

Microsoft released the Enterprise version of Windows 8.1 — but not through the VLSC site, confusing volume license customers with Software Assurance agreements

Adobe sketches the future of the Web

The Web will soon become a foundation for truly rich applications and immersive experiences. Adobe ponders the technologies that will likely play a crucial role

Techie, trust thyself and respect will follow

At a hospital communications job, a techie balances how much information to tell users and how much to listen to the IT team

6 lessons to learn from a happy IT organization

At DirecTV, IT stopped playing defense and took the lead, helping business management weigh key decisions. Here's how they pulled it off

Why the Microsoft Certified Master program had to end

For a variety of reasons, the program wasn't sustainable, but there's hope a better program will rise from its ashes

IBM’s $1 billion Linux investment: Buying Power

Processors, that is — new rev of high-end server line will benefit greatly from IBM's five-year investment in Linux development

Patent trolls face a new deterrent: The RICO Act

Suing patent trolls for extortion sounds like a great idea, but making the charges stick can be tricky

NetApp pitches Data ONTAP, ‘universal data platform’ for clouds

OpenStack partner promises management across private and public clouds, offers ways to further liberate VMs from proprietary environments

Bad to worse for APPLE — BOX (and everyone else) takes on Office — Inside CIA’s SPOOK VC — MOZILLA’s touch-based browser delayed — BRYAN GOLDBERG gets New Yorker treatment

Dell has just 12 months to matter in the cloud

Dell's current cloud portfolio is insufficient, but a few well-placed bets could make a champ of this dark horse

Google taps big data for universal translator

Statistical analysis beats algorithms for language translation, Google says, but which massive volumes of linguistic data will it use?

Why won’t I buy an iPhone 5s? Blame Verizon

Faster hardware at the expense of unlimited data is not a choice I should have to make

Inspired by Ruby on Rails, Grails to go beyond Web app dev

Project lead Rocher points to Hadoop support as new direction for the open source framework for Java Virtual Machines

In a cloud world, developers and admins can’t ignore each other

Infrastructure admins and application admins need to better understand one another, especially when the public cloud is involved

It’s a science fact: Ig Nobels are the best awards on the planet

Outta the way, Oscars! Vamoose, VMAs! With mouse costumes and beer goggle research, Ig Nobels steal the award spotlight

Box joins crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office

Box makes good on hiring of Google Docs creator, adds document creation to its cloud storage and collaboration service

NSA gets SWIFT — MICROSOFT and Nokia were on eve of WAR — GOOGLE dumps MySQL — EV WILLIAMS thinks big

CloudPhysics monitoring tool offers big data analytics to VMware environments

The startup's cloud-based cards provide 'Google-like operations excellence' to virtualized enterprise data centers

To make IT ‘agile,’ devops is not enough

Devops aims to heal the often bitter divide between developers and operations, but delivering more and better solutions faster demands an enterprise-wide commitment

Restore the right to privacy with self-signed certificates

If we can no longer trust the certification authorities, then we'll have to secure the Internet ourselves

Can artificial intelligence save Windows Phones?

Microsoft's mobile AI assistant may put Apple's Siri and Google Now to shame, even make Windows Phones sexy. Did I really just write that?

TWITTER IPO speeds move to real-time ad network — NSA impersonates GOOGLE — DuckDuckGo goes parabolic — ARRINGTON up to his old tricks

DuckDuckGo going straight up

Search engine aggregator-turned-privacy-paragon DuckDuckGo logs meteoric growth in the wake of NSA revelations

Want a good cloud job? Better know traditional IT, too

To deliver the cloud effectively, you have to know how it works together with legacy systems and IT fundamentals

Java EE a tough sell for Spring Framework users

Pivotal's Java framework remains ahead of Java EE technically, turning off developers from switching despite Oracle's efforts

Microsoft and Apple: Dueling disappointments

Apple’s new iPhones and Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system vie for top billing this week — but not in a good way

Open source influence for sale? In defense of sponsors

Communities have sponsors, patrons, advisory boards, even directorships, but they don't have the influence you may fear

Cisco shows how to manage 35,000 Macs

The iPhone and iPad have given the Mac new life in business — but how to handle them puzzles many IT admins

17 things you should go ahead and cloud

Some business and development tasks simply drag you down — so put them in the cloud

C jumps back to top of language popularity index

After losing the top spot to Java last month, C has regained the crown, while the refined index also finds gains for Transact-SQL and Cobol

INTEL places chips on Google — ZUCKERBERG on NSA: ‘Government blew it’ — MAYER: ‘It’s treason’ to disobey NSA — JAVA barn door still open — CUBAN from heaven

Microsoft pulls botched KB 2871630, while many Office patch problems remain

Pulling the KB 2871630 patch took Microsoft more than 14 hours after the first warnings appeared, and admins are furious. What's Microsoft doing wrong?

17 things you should go ahead and cloud

Some companies are already sky high in cloudy goodness, while others are still procrastinating. The following items should rise to the top of your cloud priority list

Verizon’s diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view

The carrier wants to charge websites for carrying their packets, but if they win it'd be the end of the Internet as we know it

Dan Bricklin: JavaScript beats native code for mobile

VisiCalc co-inventor argues for mobile JavaScript apps over native ones

Beyond the iPhone: What pundits don’t get about Apple

A focus on technology bling and cut-rate products blinds most analysts to where Apple is aiming its future

Apple’s special event, minus the special

They're colorful, they're fast, they're utterly boring: Meet the new iPhones, not terribly different than the old iPhones

Reality for Windows developers: Users want Android, iOS apps

Microsoft's own platforms take a backseat when it comes to requests for mobile apps, developers find

New iPHONE, same old Wall St. blues — New WINDOWS, same old mess –- FEDS use travel alerts to seize devices — BUSINESS INSIDER cans bigot CTO

Microsoft botches still more patches in latest Automatic Update

It must be Wretched Wednesday — the day after Black Tuesday. Watch out for automatic patches KB 2817630, KB 2810009, KB 2760411, KB 2760588, and KB 2760583

Hand over your printers if you know what’s good for you

In a corporate environment this incompetent, a tech pro takes desperate measures to satisfy basic hardware requests

Windows 8.1 Enterprise: 3 features admins should know

The top-of-the-line Windows edition has three features that businesses will love

Dan Bricklin: JavaScript beats native code for mobile

VisiCalc's legendary co-inventor argues that most developers should write mobile JavaScript apps rather than build apps in native code

APPLE answers Android with downmarket iPhone — MICROSOFT hands devs Win8.1 — HP DROPPED from Dow — BUSINESS INSIDER’s bigot CTO outs self

The problem with smart watches: They’re watches

Sadly, the focus on technology means that today's wearables aren't solving problems that people actually have

Google to NSA: You’ll have to take our data the hard way

The cloud industry is turning its focus away from blocking criminal hackers to blocking systematic government snooping

All you need to know about the new iPhone

The iPhone 5s packs a lot more power in a very familiar package, while the iPhone 5c is all about the colored cases