Opinion

Missing pieces of Chrome

At first glance, Google's plans for building an extension/plug-in framework for Chrome look quite promising

By Randall Kennedy

Dec 2, 2008 4 mins

A book about the software market is news?

A Microsoft veteran believes that open source is the future of software. Why is this news?

By Savio Rodrigues

Dec 1, 2008 2 mins

Open source: It’s all about the value add

BusinessWeek declares the open source model is broken. Or did Stuart Cohen miss out on the fact that companies are already making and saving money with open source?

By Zack Urlocker

Dec 1, 2008 3 mins

Asustek launches bamboo laptop

Launch date for U.S. and Europe has yet to be set

Dec 1, 2008 1 min

Flex/AIR IDE for Visual Studio coming soon

The new Amethyst IDE from SapphireSteel Software will provide ActionScript and MXML editing plus project management hosted in Visual Studio 2008

By Martin Heller

Dec 1, 2008 2 mins

The Julie Amero case: A dangerous farce

The Julie Amero case may be over, but revelations about how it all happened have only just begun. And the truth is both stranger and uglier than you can imagine. Cringely has the 411.

Dec 1, 2008 4 mins

The shoemaker’s children get new shoes

Deck the labs with long overdue updates

By Paul Venezia

Dec 1, 2008 5 mins

Where SOA meets cloud computing

The act of tossing information, services, and processes outside of the firewall without a clear strategy won't be productive at all.

Dec 1, 2008 2 mins

Dave speaks with NASA’s Jeff Estefan about open SOA standards.

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Nov 30, 2008 1 min

A job-hunting challenge

Always remember — you aren't looking for work. You're selling a product with your name on it.

By Bob Lewis

Nov 30, 2008 4 mins

This software brought to you by Ovaltine

Is an advertising-supported model the way forward for the software industry?

By Neil McAllister

Nov 27, 2008 7 mins

Missing CD/DVD drives

PC Hell comes to the rescue

By Brian Chee

Nov 26, 2008 2 mins

Saving through network convergence

Combining building systems and IT on a single IP network can reap efficiencies, savings

Nov 26, 2008 4 mins

My dinner with Bruce Eckel

Q&A with Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java"

By Zack Urlocker

Nov 26, 2008 1 min

Giving thanks — Off the Record style

Sometimes a day in the IT trenches brings the feeling of a job well done. We present eight such stories from the archives

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Nov 26, 2008 2 mins

Data Management

Deciphering a bank’s privacy policy

Combing through the fine print to find out what happens to a customer's information after they close accounts is the only way to find peace of mind

By Christina Wood

Nov 26, 2008 3 mins

Peering into Microsoft’s Azure sky

Can Microsoft compete with Amazon, Google, and other rivals in the cloud computing space?

Nov 26, 2008 5 mins

Why Microsoft won’t dominate the cloud

Microsoft is the wrong company at the wrong time to dominate the cloud computing architecture of the future

By Bill Snyder

Nov 26, 2008 4 mins

Biggest turkeys of 2008

What has feathers, can't fly, and likes to stick its neck out at precisely the wrong moment? Cringely cries fowl by naming the biggest tech turkeys of the year.

Nov 26, 2008 3 mins

Preventing self-fulfilling prophesies

Provide solutions, not just predictions.

By Bob Lewis

Nov 26, 2008 2 mins

Is the BlackBerry Storm doomed for lack of Wi-Fi?

RIM's design-out of Wi-Fi dooms the BlackBerry Storm in the same way that lacking essentials have buried the iPhone 3G and Wii — not at all.

By Tom Yager

Nov 25, 2008 7 mins

Trying to keep up with Microsoft

Martin has been trying to keep up with Microsoft's new developer-oriented releases, and having a tough time of it. He's made some progress with Windows Azure, and started to look at the jQuery IntelliSense support for VS 2008 and the new Ch

By Martin Heller

Talking small business with Cisco

Cisco is getting serious about the small-business market. Curtis Franklin interviews Cisco's Mark Monday for details on the company's plans.

By Curt Franklin

Nov 25, 2008 6 mins

Pano Logic moves beyond RDP with its VDI solution

Pano Logic wants their silver box on your desk, and to make that happen they plan to overcome today's RDP limitations

Open source SOA provides some major advantages

Requirements should come before technology, but open source SOA typically is much less expensive and easier to use than proprietary tools

No Windows 7 public beta until 2009

How my scathing rebuke of Windows 7 scared Microsoft into delaying the Windows 7 public Beta until 2009.

By Randall Kennedy

IT’s latest defense against patent trolls

Membership-based patent aggregator RPX takes aim at nefarious non-practicing entities

By Ephraim Schwartz

Dave Speaks with Forrester’s Mike Gilpin

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Nov 24, 2008 1 min

New Xerox toner to cut power costs

Ultra Low-Melt EA toner requires less heat to melt

Nov 24, 2008 2 mins

Why technical professionals can’t find employment

It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Technical professionals need to focus on what they should do in response.

By Bob Lewis

Nov 24, 2008 4 mins

Advice for a new CEO: Focus on execution

What does Marc Andreessen say about the big company turnaround? There's plenty of good advice here for CEOs trying to right their company.

By Zack Urlocker

Nov 24, 2008 3 mins

Schools, fools, and the tools of ignorance

If not for help from a handful of geeks, Connecticut school teacher Julie Amero would be in prison right now for crimes she didn't commit. What's wrong with this picture?

Nov 24, 2008 3 mins

Self-made monitoring tools: The gift that keeps on giving

The beauty of simple home-grown network monitoring tools. All it takes is a requirement and a little time.

By Paul Venezia

Nov 24, 2008 4 mins

VMware loses its security chief to OpenDNS

Where is VMware going with its security initiative? Not sure. But it will be without its security head, Nand Mulchandani, the latest executive to leave the company.

Nov 24, 2008 2 mins

Killer open source monitoring tools

If you run a network, you should be running these free utilities

By Paul Venezia

Nov 24, 2008 13 mins

Is Symantec moving to workspace virtualization?

Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization group is stepping up their virtualization game with the Beta of Workspace Virtualization.

Nov 23, 2008 2 mins

iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn’t fix key business flaws

The iPhone is great, but not as great as it needs to be with the BlackBerry Storm now here

By Galen Gruman

Nov 23, 2008 6 mins

VMware updates Mac Fusion product to 2.0.1

VMware updates its Mac OS X virtualization solution, keeping the race between it and Parallels alive and well.

Nov 22, 2008 1 min

Wall Street as the first business infrastructure as a service

The financial markets have been riding a roller coaster in the dark for several weeks. The uncertainty and fear clogging the flow of currency is causing governments of the industrialized world to examine how global markets conduct themselves, with an

By Tony Bishop

Nov 22, 2008 3 mins

Desktop computing ready for the cloud? What are Moderro and Lenovo doing?

Are you ready to bring your desktop computing into the cloud? If so, you might want to check out Moderro Technologies to find out more about their Internet computer. Or what about Lenovo? What are they up to in the desktop computing space and what ar

Nov 22, 2008 1 min

Dead on arrival

HP rights some wrongs, with a little prodding from the Gripe Line

By Christina Wood

Nov 21, 2008 3 mins

IBM looks to warm homes with datacenter heat waste

Big Blue's Zurich Research Lab envisions reusing liquid cooling water

Nov 21, 2008 1 min

Downturns and upticks

Even grim economic news and bloated operating systems have an upside if you're willing to look closely enough

By Eric Knorr

Nov 21, 2008 2 mins

SOA World focuses on enterprisewide solutions

Conference highlights how there is so much crossover between cloud computing and SOA

Nov 21, 2008 2 mins

Is Vista Capable? Maybe. Microsoft, not so much.

What do Microsoft and OJ have in common? Highly public court cases with lots of incriminating evidence. But no amount of lawyerly magic may be able to save Redmond from the public's verdict.

Nov 21, 2008 4 mins

Sun joins in call on Congress for clean energy economy

Coalitions seeks CO2 emission cuts, clean-energy investments, and coal plant limits

Nov 20, 2008 3 mins

IBM supercomputers are super efficient

The top 20 most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world are built on IBM high-performance computing technology

Nov 20, 2008 2 mins

Camtasia Relay Server

That whooshing sound you hear is knowledge escaping your organization. I hear this noise all the time at the University of Hawaii whenever a great lecturer does a one-of-a-kind masterpiece on free electron lasers, undersea observatories, modern art o

By Brian Chee

Nov 20, 2008 6 mins