Opinion

Quick update on the Terry Childs case

It seems that the prosecution has requested more time to prepare their motion

Ultimate cell phone: Sumsing Turbo 3000

If you're a gadget freak, you'll love this cell phone as seen on YouTube

Google Chrome and SOA

The presence of Chrome will drive much SOA in the short term

Google Chrome: A developer’s perspective

Google's new Chrome browser sets a new standard for the Web as an application platform

Google plays Big Brother

The Chrome browser is spiffy, but it may threaten your privacy.

Measuring your green IT baseline

Forrester offers some simple equations to calculate how much you spend annually to power your IT gear and how much CO2 it produces

E-mail deliverability: steps to take

Why I’m dumping IE for Chrome

A die-hard Internet Explorer user jumps ship to Google's new browser.

Google’s Chrome’s a shining beta

My angst about using Google Chrome

Why I'm switching to Google Chrome; hint: it's for the same reason that I originally went to Firefox

The state of scripting

Industry perspective from leading lights in the scripting communities

Cyber-scammers are entrenched, even in the U.S.

New reports from KnujOn, SpamHaus and others detail the way bent and phantom Internet Registrars shelter sites that promote illegal drug sales, malware, and pornography

HP cuts notebook shipping waste with innovative packaging

Pavilion dv6929wm ships in a reusable, protective messenger bag, lowering fuel costs to transport

Deloitte cuts waste through app centralization

Company's CIO tells <i>Network World</i> that by reducing demand for redundant platforms, it finds it needs fewer machines

Sun and Tek-Tools integrate products

Sun Microsystems expands its strategic alliance with Tek-Tools Software and will sell its partners software alongside its Sun Common Array Manager software, which is used to manage Sun's storage arrays.

Chrome sweet Chrome?

It's all Chrome, all the time, here on the InterWeb. Does Google's browser beta live up to the hype? Well, yes and no. Cringely has more.

Can executives do real work?

Big companies and small ones have different leadership dynamics.

MS strips Server 2008 of free Exchange backup feature

Redmond removes previously free Exchange backup functionality from Server 2008, only to sell it as part of a new backup product

Developers should skip Google’s Chrome, and jump straight to WebKit

For Web applications, the framework's the thing, and the browser framework that will win the day is WebKit

Owner’s capitalism vs manager’s capitalism

What you can predict about how a company is managed based on the existence of a shareholder's lawsuit … and how not to interview there.

VMware Fusion 2.0 reaches RC1 stage

Fusion 2.0, VMware's latest desktop virtualization software for the Apple Mac, is almost ready for release

Google Chrome, or ‘Great, yet another browser to support’

Google's beta browser looks fine, though plug-in support is limited. But what's the deal on Google owning anything you submit through it?

Mobile apps, passwords, and security

As I move more and more towards using my phone for tasks that I might otherwise use a laptop, I can't help but notice that passwords are a problem. Strong passwords, like wI34$Rg5%Ttg (obviously, not one of mine) are fine when you have a normal

MacBook Air update is kind of a big deal

I've been running my MacBook Air pretty hard in the six months since I received it. It's become my main laptop, in fact. I still use my 17" MacBook Pro, but I'm on the Air probably 80% of the time now, and overall I'm quite h

Upcoming open source & web conferences

Watch for Zend, MySQL, Asterisk, PHP and Apache conferences coming to a city near you!

SOA Governance Monday (Okay Tuesday): Design time, and the missing pieces, part II

Core issue with design-time SOA governance technology is how deeply the technology goes toward serving the true notion of 'design'

Smuggling IBM

Back in the 1980s, I was a very green software developer working for a large company that had offices all over the world. I was assigned the task of updating software and supplying training at one of our South American offices. The country where this

IE 8 consumes more RAM than Windows XP

exo.performance.network is declaring IE 8 to the be one seriously bloated piece of software. Not only is it fatter than IE 7, it's also more resource-intensive

Master your terms before you master your data

As master data management becomes a business imperative, IT needs to make sure every department is on the same page

Xen 3.3 is live, time to propose new features for 3.4

The open source Xen community is moving quickly to enhance the feature set of the Xen hypervisor technology

Will Chrome render Windows obsolete?

Google's new brower aims to make the Web the OS of choice

Google’s new open source Web browser

Can Google's Chrome reshape the Internet browser landscape?

Catbird joins McAfee’s security alliance program

Security concerns do not go away with virtualization. And thanks to a new security alliance, Catbird and McAfee customers will enjoy a common security management interface across their physical and virtual environments.

Is would-be VP Sarah Palin a hacker?

Does the GOP VP nominee possess hidden computer skills? Can she possibly bring the White House into the 21st century, technologically at least? Cringely has a few thoughts.

Advice for marketing a start-up

Advice for marketing a start-up (or any other tough situation): Give yourself the same advice you'd give anyone else.

Kindle 2.0 next year?

Kindle 2.0 rumors debunked by Amazon

Former PlateSpin employees return to small companies

Novell loses two key employees gained from the acquisition of long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin.

Uptime chief: Don’t believe the PUE hype

Uptime's Kenneth Brill says some companies are misusing the popular metric as a "tool of marketing manipulation"

Chinese democracy meets U.S. justice

The feds have arrested a 27-year-old blogger for posting unreleased Guns N' Roses songs to his site, and Cringely is steamed.

A global Chinese software company in the next 20 years?

As China's appetite for technological advancement through acquisition grows, will we see a global Chinese-based software vendor emerge?

Quest LiteSpeed 5.0 update

My initial look at the new version of LiteSpeed

When cloud computing fails

<p> Cloud computing doesn't relieve you of business continuity responsibilities </p>

More thoughts on open source piracy

Is piracy of paid support a problem in the open source software market?

Who needs identity theft when you have identity gifts?

Hot on the heels of my post earlier this week comes a perfect example of the negligence I was talking about. In this case, nobody had to hack into anything to get access to "[d]etails of customers of three companies, including the Royal Bank of

Really free Linux takes hold

Use of community Linux distributions like Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian are on the rise in the enterprise

California Academy of Sciences leverages IP to cut waste, costs

Switching over to various IP-based services is saving the academy more than a million dollars in redundant equipment and cabling

JavaScript performance turns the tide

ECMA standards committee will steer toward a lighter JavaScript 2

Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug

Is it realistic to expect stem-to-stern application platform support from any one vendor?

Telecommuting on the rise in U.S. and Canada

42 percent of American companies and 40 percent of Canadian say they let employees telework

Citrix application virtualization announcement around XenApp 5

The Citrix flagship product of Presentation Server has been improved and renamed to Citrix XenApp 5 in keeping with the company's Xen product line of XenDesktop and XenServer.