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The EPA doesn't know what clouds it has -- and neither do you
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.
Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps: The ultimate guide
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:
How to get started with GitHub
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.
PHP gets its own formal language specification
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.
Take home more! The best cities for 6 top tech jobs
Take home more! The best cities for 6 top tech jobs
The myth of slower iPhones and the truth of our upgrade addiction
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
Happy 10th anniversary, Ruby on Rails -- but watch your back
Credit: Berit Myrekrok
Fresh attacks on open source miss the mark
Despite hefty successes like Hadoop, Linux, and Android, the open source movement has come under intense pressure recently.
Gartner gets the 'data lake' concept all wrong
I didn't want to write about "data lakes" or
Microsoft looks to woo developers with Windows Phone upgrade
Still struggling to gain a foothold in the smartphone market, Microsoft continues to fight on with improvements to its Windows Phone platform.
LibreOffice 4.3 boosts document compatibility
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
The two major open source PaaS (platform as a service) offerings are Red Hat's OpenShift and Pivotal's Cloud Foundry.
The bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014 (so far)
Company Casanova leaves trail of broken hearts, busted servers
Credit: Svitlana Pidburtna
Microsoft comes clean on 'weird things' in Windows Server 2012 R2, Server 2003
Mobile management: Making sense of your options
Smartphones, tablets, social networks, and cloud services are all popular, incredibly useful — and a security risk. These days, the security focus is on mobile devices, as they tend to be used a lot to work with corporate information, but the variety of platforms, the fact many are employee-owned, and uneven security capabilities mean it’s a real challenge — sometimes an impossible challenge — to manage them in the same way as the corporate PC.
Android vulnerability allows malware to compromise most devices and apps
The majority of Android devices currently in use contain a vulnerability that allows malware to completely hijack installed apps and their data or even the entire device.
The core problem is that Android fails to validate public key infrastructure certificate chains for app digital signatures, said Jeff Forristal, chief technology officer of Bluebox Security, a San Francisco company whose researchers discovered the issue.
The Tizen smartphone flopped -- and open source is to blame
You know the saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
