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Famo.us lines up mobile-app wrapper for September release
Credit: Pavel Khorenyan
Your business has gone mobile -- now what?
The self-provisioning of technology in the workplace by employees, more commonly known as consumerization, is the most dramatic opportunity disguised as a challenge that businesses should embrace. Along with the infiltration of unsanctioned personal devices, applications, and Web services inside the organization, companies are gaining workers who are increasingly self-motivated to be more empowered, engaged, and resourceful.
What enterprise would say no to a self-starter?
The Zeus botnet and the making of a cyber crime market
I recently had the opportunity to speak with two representatives from the Netherlands-based security research firm Fox-IT: Maurits Lucas, InTELL business director, and Andy Chandler, VP of WW sales and marketing. Collectively, the two shared an in-depth story of cyber-gang warfare suitable for Hollywood.
10 ways Tim Cook has made Apple his company
10 ways Tim Cook has made Apple his company
Users find fix for botched KB 2982791 and KB 2970228 Windows update
Seems like business as usual in the Microsoft Black Tuesday support arena.
The iPhone and iPad may be losing their enterprise luster
As I wrote last week, Apple seems to be reversing the Android dominance in the market as a whole or at least slowing it.
How to crack an open source community
For a community founded on peace, love, and free-flowing code, the open source community can be a difficult crowd to crack.
2014's hottest IT certifications
Stroustrup: Why the 35-year-old C++ still dominates 'real' dev
Credit: Bjarne Stroustrup
Smarter than Siri: Viv promises a truly intelligent assistant
Credit: VOLODYMYR GRINKO
Choosing a cloud provider? Follow the happy employees
Back in March, Louis Columbus reported on some numbers from Glassdoor.com showing employees' rankings of their cloud technology companies. They are not perfect indicators of company culture, but are certainly worth your consideration if you're looking to work for a cloud provider -- or trying to figure out which ones to use as a provider.
When to use Hadoop (and when not to)
When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software's open source data storage and processing framework.
There are a number of reasons why Hadoop is an attractive option. Not only does the platform offer both distributed computing and computational capabilities at a relatively low cost, it's able to scale to meet the anticipated exponential increase in data generated by mobile technology, social media, the Internet of Things, and other emerging digital technologies.
Blue Screen Stop 0x050 error reported for systems installing KB2976897, KB2982791, and KB2970228
Blue Screen Stop 0x050 error reported for systems installing KB2976897, KB2982791, and KB2970228
7 far-out technologies that are closer than you think
7 far-out technologies that are closer than you think
At last, Intel has mobile chips to reckon with
It's easy to dismiss the launch of a new Intel CPU as a ho-hum event.
With Hadoop HBase, Splice Machine breathes new life into old RDBMS
Splice Machine advertises itself as "the only Hadoop RDBMS." The idea is to give you a transactionally correct database that has the underlying scalability features of HBase.
Review: Birst brings DIY to BI
We're all aware knowledge is power and time is money.
