Opinion

Careers Technology Industry

Indians express little sympathy for snagging U.S. IT jobs

Survey finds that some Indians appreciate American ire over outsourcing — but also blame United States for the problem

By Ted Samson

Aug 25, 2010 3 mins

Pac-Man for president: Hack highlights e-voting flaws

University researchers remind people that electronic voting machines are still easy to manipulate by loading the venerable Pac-Man video game

Aug 25, 2010 2 mins

Hacking

Adobe Flash cookies are at the heart of three federal lawsuits alleging they violate your privacy and help advertisers track you across the Web

Data and Information Security Privacy Technology Industry

Aug 25, 2010 4 mins

Computer troubleshooting vs. finding a quick solution

In this IT tale, a techie lands his first job working at a support center — and learns to really listen to what a caller is saying

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Aug 25, 2010 4 mins

Data Management

When the boss likes to create conflict, you have to learn how to win

There's no point fighting a manager who likes to create internal conflict — but you can play to win

Access Control Microsoft Exchange

Aug 25, 2010 4 mins

Careers

The joys of Microsoft Exchange 2010’s RBAC

Role-based access control offers enterprises flexible security settings for customized access

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Aug 25, 2010 5 mins

Heads up: A whole new class of zero-day Windows vulnerabilities looms

Hundreds of applications you use may need fixing because of a quirk in the way Windows looks for missing programs

By Woody Leonhard

Aug 24, 2010 5 mins

Hacking Malware Small and Medium Business

iPads are about to pour into your business

A new survey shows business use is a major reason that employees are getting iPads — it's not just for videos and surfing

Aug 24, 2010 3 mins

RIM BlackPad: No BlackBerry OS included?

According to reports on the forthcoming BlackPad, RIM may debut an OS based on technology from QNX Software Systems

By Josh Fruhlinger

Aug 24, 2010 3 mins

The rise — and risk — of the composite clouds

Many cloud computing providers are using other cloud services to form their offerings. Is this adding invisible risk?

By David Linthicum

Aug 24, 2010 2 mins

Careers SaaS

Work/life balance: What it does and doesn’t mean

Achieving work/life balance is a commendable goal — but if you aspire to be on the executive track, prepare to put in the hours

Aug 24, 2010 5 mins

Careers

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 SDK downloads lag Android

The 300,000-download figure touted by Microsoft may not mean all that much

Development Tools Technology Industry

Aug 23, 2010 2 mins

In Google’s search experiment, we’re all guinea pigs

Google watches as you type in search words and displays "live" results in real time — is anybody else creeped out by this?

Aug 23, 2010 4 mins

Smartphone wars: The PC wars all over again

How RIM, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are re-enacting the desktop wars of the '80s and '90s

By Paul Venezia

Aug 23, 2010 5 mins

The Internet is dead!

No, wait — the connection is back up again — it seems to be working now

By Eric Knorr

Aug 23, 2010 3 mins

Microsoft tech support bot goes rogue

Pressed for explanation, Microsoft support chat bot concocts its own Office 2007 download rules

By Christina Wood

Aug 23, 2010 3 mins

Careers

How to deal with a storage capacity crisis

Sometimes, despite best-laid plans, storage capacity hits the wall and creates an emergency situation. Don't panic — fix it right

By Matt Prigge

Aug 23, 2010 7 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

VMworld 2010 is fast approaching, with important changes

VMware is implementing new fixes to solve lab and session problems at VMworld. Have they also patched things up with Citrix and Microsoft?

By David Marshall

Aug 23, 2010 8 mins

Commercialization of volunteer-driven open source projects

Open source projects driven by volunteer developers are essential, but, eventually, commercialization must take hold for the good of the project

By Dries Buytaert

Aug 20, 2010 4 mins

Can you trust Facebook Places?

How long will it be before Facebook's new check-in service, Places, starts sharing your movements with the world?

Privacy Technology Industry

Aug 20, 2010 5 mins

Android UIs unite! Time to end the forced use of custom skins

The fragmentation of UIs slows Android upgrades and removes customer choice

By JR Raphael

Aug 20, 2010 5 mins

Don’t be duped by fake software offers online

One reader learns the hard way that you need more than faith alone when dealing with some online vendors

By Christina Wood

Aug 20, 2010 5 mins

Intellectual Property Java

Enterprise Java: Oracle’s real reason for suing Google?

Mobile and cloud are areas where Oracle wants to protect and grow Java licensing — yet both are slipping into others' hands

By Savio Rodrigues

Aug 20, 2010 6 mins

Symantec boosts VMware with high availability and storage optimization

Symantec ApplicationHA and VirtualStore are expected to help VMware users confidently virtualize their business-critical applications and minimize storage costs

By David Marshall

Aug 19, 2010 4 mins

Malware Technology Industry

Is Intel buying an also-ran?

A poor showing for McAfee's software in independent test results adds to the general 'huh?' reaction to the Intel-McAfee merger

By Woody Leonhard

Aug 19, 2010 2 mins

SAP’s ‘duh’ strategy for mobile

Grand pronouncements are vague and disappointing

Aug 19, 2010 4 mins

Intel + McAfee = Desperate mobile move

In grabbing the security vendor, chip giant Intel may be using McAfee as a back door into mobile devices

Aug 19, 2010 3 mins

Tasks and timelines: The keys to successful project management

When you're in charge of a project, you need more than trust and team members' promises of being "on track"

Careers Software Development

Aug 19, 2010 4 mins

Why Oracle was right to sue Google

Oracle's Android lawsuit is just the first step in the long-awaited resurrection of the Java platform

By Neil McAllister

Aug 19, 2010 7 mins

AT&T Technology Industry Verizon

Open source .Net-based content management aims for the enterprise

The DotNetNuke platform now boasts staging capabilities and beefed-up support

By Pete Babb

Aug 19, 2010 2 mins

Software Development

Finally! iPhone users have given up on AT&T

An independent survey shows that AT&T's crummy network performance and terrible customer service are slowing sales of Apple's new iPhone 4

By Bill Snyder

Aug 19, 2010 6 mins

Oracle’s Android lawsuit: A Pandora’s box of serious evils

A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source

By Martin Heller

Aug 18, 2010 6 mins

Intellectual Property Technology Industry

How to find the right company culture

If you discover you don't quite fit in with the office environment, don't blame yourself — but don't spend your career there either

Aug 18, 2010 5 mins

IT Jobs

The Class of 2014: What these kids don’t know

Beloit College's Mindset List reminds us that today's college freshmen have never used wristwatches, dialed a phone, or written in cursive — that's not all they've missed out

IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Aug 18, 2010 3 mins

Block ‘Flash cookies’ to thwart zombies

Those who fail to block Flash Local Shared Objects — so-called flash cookies — make themselves vulnerable to cookie-like snooping

By Woody Leonhard

Aug 18, 2010 4 mins

Malware Privacy Software Development

Bowing to IT demands, cloud providers move to reserved instances

Offerings that promise reserved portions of clouds could get enterprises off the fence around the use of public clouds

By David Linthicum

Aug 18, 2010 3 mins

Cloud Computing

How SharePoint 2010 brings BI to the next level

A survey of the key enhancements to Microsoft's business analytics capabilities

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Aug 18, 2010 4 mins

Business Intelligence Small and Medium Business Software Development

Who needs an IT department, anyway?

Chaos ensues when a school principal gives every student a laptop and admin rights, but no usage guidelines and no IT involvement

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Aug 18, 2010 4 mins

Data Management

The culprit behind Network Solutions' fourth major attack this year, which added infected code to its parked domains? A Web 2.0 widget

Aug 17, 2010 2 mins

Hacking Malware

Android threatens Oracle’s embedded Java business

Oracle's motivation for the lawsuit: Google's Java-derived hybrid must die for a profitable Java Mobile Edition to live

By Josh Fruhlinger

Aug 17, 2010 4 mins

Java Technology Industry

Got Adobe ColdFusion? Start patching

Tens of thousands of Web servers may be at risk due to a flaw that Adobe rates only as "important"

Patch Management Software

Aug 17, 2010 3 mins

An iPad at the office: Can it work as a PC?

In some cases, you can get rid of your laptop — but only after figuring out app, data-access, keyboard, display, and power issues

Aug 17, 2010 17 mins

Open Source Technology Industry

Oracle scorns open source: How to respond?

The message is clear: Fork all the main open source projects that Oracle owns or transfer energies to a replacement

By Glyn Moody

Aug 17, 2010 10 mins

The danger of cloud silos

In many instances clouds will just become a set of new silos, diminishing the value of IT if we're not careful

By David Linthicum

Aug 17, 2010 3 mins

Cloud Computing

God 1, Best Buy Geeks 0

Best Buy is suing a Wisconsin priest over a 'God Squad' logo he painted on his car. This is yet more evidence that copyright attorneys are the handmaidens of Satan