Opinion

First look: Avaak’s Vue taps wireless mesh for Webcams

The Vue video monitoring system for consumers and small business offers a number of advantages over traditional and Wi-Fi setups

Mar 2, 2009 5 mins

Happy Square Root Day, math geeks

You may not be aware of it, but tomorrow's a national holiday for the pocket-protector-and-slide-rule crowd. But why settle for just one numerically inspired celebration each year? Cringely goes in for a little arithmetic therapy.

Mar 2, 2009 3 mins

Silverlight data visualization

Infragistics' new NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization is a package of user-interface controls

By Martin Heller

Mar 2, 2009 1 min

There is a clear opportunity to make your SOA even more valuable by linking it with Twitter

By Dave Linthicum

Mar 2, 2009 2 mins

VMware recognizes virtualization evangelists with vExpert award

VMware rolled out its virtualization red carpet in honor of its newly awarded vExpert recipients

Mar 2, 2009 3 mins

Opening up Open Sources

For nearly two years, Open Sources, written by Savio Rodrigues and Zack Urlocker, has been one of InfoWorld's most popular blogs. Now we're opening it up — to contributions from you

By Eric Knorr

Mar 2, 2009 2 mins

What do we know about open source pricing?

Is there a formula for what open source software should cost? Maybe not, but open source vendors should endeavor to make pricing transparent

By Guest

Mar 2, 2009 5 mins

Is cloud computing inherently evil?

Electronic Frontier Foundation chairman Brad Templeton weighs in on the dark side of cloud computing

By whurley

Mar 2, 2009 9 mins

Cloud Computing

Choosing between a buyout and a salary cut

When faced with voluntary layoffs, compare the cash flows and your expectations of how hard you expect your job search to be. Then add some pessimism to your assumptions.

By Bob Lewis

Mar 1, 2009 3 mins

When paranoia isn’t enough

The most paranoid geek I know, Steve Bass of TechBite, gets hacked

By Christina Wood

Feb 27, 2009 4 mins

Apress Publishing at SCALE 7x

You're worried about finding or keeping a job right now. One way to improve your chances of getting or keeping an IT job is to improve your technical skills. You could spend thousands of dollars on training for certifications in Cisco or Micros

Feb 27, 2009 2 mins

Twit’s all, folks

When the elite tweet, you know something big has changed. Twitter has become this year's Web 2.0 darling. Cringely wonders how long the infatuation will last.

Feb 27, 2009 3 mins

The opportunity crisis

Rather than indulge in knee-jerk layoffs and cut-rate outsourcing, companies should try to use the downturn as an opportunity for transformation

By Eric Knorr

Feb 27, 2009 3 mins

Gazelle: The browser that thinks like an OS

A new browser prototype from Microsoft Research offers a glimpse at the next stage of computing's evolution

By Neil McAllister

Feb 27, 2009 5 mins

Marshall Electronics USB Microphones

http://www.mxlmics.com Marshall Electronics 1910 E. Maple Avenue El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone: (310)333-0606 or 1-800-800-6608 Fax: (310)333-0688E-mail: sales@marshall-usa.com The hiss and crackle of the low quality analog audio connectors has been the

Feb 27, 2009 6 mins

Windows 7 compared to Vista

A look at the utilization and performance numbers of Windows 7 and Windows Vista on the same hardware

By Martin Heller

Feb 26, 2009 2 mins

Open source panel at Accel Symposium

Observations from some of the brightest business people in open source

By Zack Urlocker

Feb 26, 2009 3 mins

JavaScript Technology Industry

Racing JavaScript: Safari vs. Firefox

Apple's Safari 4 beta trumps Firefox 3 in JavaScript performance, according to WebKit's own SunSpider benchmarks

By Tom Yager

Feb 26, 2009 5 mins

Neverfail helps VMware vCenter with high availability

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat gets help from Neverfail to protect VMware's management software from unplanned downtime.

Feb 26, 2009 3 mins

Open Video Conference: Call for participation

Introducing transparency, interoperability, and participation in online video

By Savio Rodrigues

Feb 26, 2009 2 mins

Microsoft’s forthcoming cloud must support Linux

Survey results from Gartner highlight the joint use of Windows and Linux

By Savio Rodrigues

Feb 26, 2009 2 mins

IT deserves better than IBM or Microsoft

Times are tough, but that's no excuse for the meanness at IBM or the initial clumsiness at Microsoft

By Bill Snyder

Feb 26, 2009 5 mins

Four big reasons to get behind the smart grid

With venture capital flooding in and stimulus money on the way, the smart grid is taking shape — and the business world stands to benefit

By Ted Samson

Feb 26, 2009 10 mins

Microsoft and Citrix announce Project Encore; and DataCore announces updates for its products

Microsoft isn't finished announcing new and renewed partnerships. In recent podcasts, we talked about some unexpected partnership announcements with EMC and Red Hat. But now, the company is trying to deflate VMware's balloon a bit more with

Feb 26, 2009 1 min

Social media is on the rise, and so are the privacy and security risks. Is it time to dial back on the whole Web 2.0 'friend' thing?

Feb 25, 2009 4 mins

10 reasons not to upgrade to Office 2007

I love Office 2007, but migration will be easier if IT knows about some legitimate concerns

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Feb 25, 2009 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Keep your smartphone safe

As mobile malware becomes an increasing threat, users get a hand from AnchorFree

By Amber Bouman

Feb 25, 2009 2 mins

AMD’s six-shooter is loaded and ready

AMD's next big thing for servers is the Istanbul six-core Opteron CPU; it's much more than the sum of its cores

By Tom Yager

Feb 25, 2009 6 mins

SCALE 7x an Excellent Event and an Impressive Value

This past weekend (Feb 20-22) was the 7th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). SCALE has grown larger, but is still very much a community, not corporate, event. Half of the exhibitors at SCALE are "dot-orgs", various Free &am

Feb 25, 2009 3 mins

Where to look for work

One rejection doesn't mean a strategy doesn't work. It means one employer turned you down.

By Bob Lewis

Feb 25, 2009 2 mins

Accel Symposium at Stanford

Will open source adoption accelerate? Seems like a no-brainer to me

By Zack Urlocker

Feb 24, 2009 1 min

Compliance Software Development

HIPAA, EDI, HL7, ICD, and DataDirect

Martin visited DataDirect and learned about the new HIPAA and ICD standards.

By Martin Heller

Feb 24, 2009 3 mins

Could the Childs case put all network admins in danger?

If Childs is convicted of some charges actually brought against him, any network admin could go to jail for doing their job

By Paul Venezia

Feb 24, 2009 5 mins

Microsoft Hyper-V licensing guide for hosting

Microsoft hopes to clear up Hyper-V licensing confusion by offering hosting providers a new guide

More SOA and cloud computing confusion

We need to understand cloud computing in the context of SOA

By David Linthicum

Ingres software appliance another step toward open source consolidators

Solution-based consolidators seek to simplify customer usage scenarios

By Savio Rodrigues

Software Development Technology Industry

Psst, I can get you that service for free

A junior tech learns the hard way that nothing is free that would normally be paid for, and that it's not right to abuse IT skills

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Feb 24, 2009 6 mins

Data Management

More specialty Linuxes to the rescue

Whether your focus is security, storage, music, or religion, there's a flavor of Linux that fits the bill

By Rick Grehan

Feb 24, 2009 19 mins

Windows 7: The compatibility blame game

How Windows 7's rock star status is helping to erode barriers like pesky software incompatibilities to entry in the corporate world

By Randall Kennedy

Feb 24, 2009 3 mins

Get smart about the future of IT

Intelligent sensors will further integrate the physical and digital worlds, thereby unleashing ever more chaos on IT

By Ephraim Schwartz

Feb 24, 2009 5 mins

Bartz to put more top-down control in Yahoo

Will accountability and better execution save Yahoo? It's a start

By Zack Urlocker

Will the cable guy break my computer?

One reader finds language in his cable service agreement that makes him think twice about letting the repair guy in

By Christina Wood

Feb 23, 2009 4 mins

The new tech interviews

A new way to validate techie skills

By Sean McCown

Feb 23, 2009 4 mins

Databases

An outsource that prevents important work

When a strategic outsource causes problems it's a political hot potato. Be as low-key as possible when raising the issue, ask the CIO and account manager what they can do to help you, and if the answer is that they can't, don't push. I

By Bob Lewis

Feb 23, 2009 4 mins

Wikileaks springs a leak

The famous whistle-blower site just blew its own whistle, leaking the e-mail addresses of dozens of its financial supporters. Is this the beginning of the end of Wikileaks?

Feb 23, 2009 3 mins

Is SOA governance DOA?

Many things are going right in SOA-ville, but good governance is hard to find

By David Linthicum

Feb 23, 2009 2 mins

Symantec set to spring its Endpoint Virtualization Suite

Symantec ups the ante of its virtualization strategy by pulling together and building on top of its Altiris, AppStream, and nSuite acquisitions.

Feb 23, 2009 3 mins

Application lifecycle management moves beyond VMware

VMLogix and Citrix have signed a new strategic OEM agreement that will provide interoperability by bringing VMLogix's hypervisor-agnostic virtual lab automation and stage management capabilities to both XenServer and Hyper-V.

Feb 23, 2009 5 mins