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Blame the iPad for the crash in tablet sales

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00

Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly told the tech industry blog Re/code this week that tablet sales have "crashed"

Categories: IT General

Sneaky broadband data caps imperil the Internet's future

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00

Credit: loops7

Categories: IT General

Black Hat 2014: How to crack just about everything

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00
From cell phones and cars to IPv6, security researchers have turned their skills against a world of technology Dek:  From cell phones and cars to IPv6, security researchers have turned their skills against a world of technology External Source:  networkworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/160362
Categories: IT General

The EPA doesn't know what clouds it has -- and neither do you

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00

Do you know how much cloud computing is really going on in your organization? If you're like IT management in most companies and government agencies, you don't have a clue.

Categories: IT General

Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps: The ultimate guide

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00

Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps have raised the bar for cloud productivity suites. Formerly pale shadows of available desktop programs, the two suites are now more than enough for many offices and businesses. But are they right for you?

In this exhaustive review, InfoWorld covers multiple aspects of the cloud suites, starting with the many Office 365 SKUs and Google Apps for Business options and proceeding to:

Categories: IT General

How to get started with GitHub

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:00

If you've ever wanted to learn Git, but didn't want to configure a server, GitHub may be the place to do it.

That thought isn't mine alone. During a recent site visit, Groupon's lead talent scout told me the company searches for candidates not on a resume site but, rather, by searching through recent GitHub commits.

Categories: IT General

PHP gets its own formal language specification

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 13:52

Although the PHP scripting language has been around since 1995 and is a staple of Web development, it does not actually have a formal language specification -- just extensive user documentation. But that is all set to change.

Categories: IT General

Take home more! The best cities for 6 top tech jobs

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00
We drill into IT salary data to help uncover hidden hot spots that pay top dollar for your IT skill set Dek:  We drill into IT salary data to help uncover hidden hot spots that pay top dollar for your IT skill set External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160479
Categories: IT General

Take home more! The best cities for 6 top tech jobs

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00
We drill into IT salary data to help uncover hidden hot spots that pay top dollar for your IT skill set Dek:  We drill into IT salary data to help uncover hidden hot spots that pay top dollar for your IT skill set External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160479
Categories: IT General

The myth of slower iPhones and the truth of our upgrade addiction

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00

You've probably seen the stories that all popped up this week asking, often in worried tones, whether Apple deliberately engineers new releases of iOS to slow down older iPhones and designs smartphones to fall apart just in tim

Categories: IT General

Happy 10th anniversary, Ruby on Rails -- but watch your back

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Berit Myrekrok

Categories: IT General

Fresh attacks on open source miss the mark

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 12:00

Despite hefty successes like Hadoop, Linux, and Android, the open source movement has come under intense pressure recently.

Categories: IT General

Microsoft looks to woo developers with Windows Phone upgrade

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 17:59

Still struggling to gain a foothold in the smartphone market, Microsoft continues to fight on with improvements to its Windows Phone platform.

Categories: IT General

LibreOffice 4.3 boosts document compatibility

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 17:34

Version 4.3 of LibreOffice, the free and open source productivity suite developed by the Document Foundation and derived from the OpenOffice.org project, was

Review: OpenShift shines for developers and ops

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:00

The two major open source PaaS (platform as a service) offerings are Red Hat's OpenShift and Pivotal's Cloud Foundry.

Categories: IT General

Microsoft gets smart to the 'dual user' -- and to reality

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Jana Blank

Categories: IT General

The bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014 (so far)

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:00
Microsoft leads the way, but it has plenty of company when it comes to cutting jobs Dek:  Microsoft leads the way, but it has plenty of company when it comes to cutting jobs External Source:  networkworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/159653
Categories: IT General

Company Casanova leaves trail of broken hearts, busted servers

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Svitlana Pidburtna

Categories: IT General

Microsoft comes clean on 'weird things' in Windows Server 2012 R2, Server 2003

Top Tech Stories - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:00

I hesitate to use the terms "Microsoft" and "clear" in the same sentence, but you should see

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