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The open source way of being

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 06/16/2014 - 12:00

Open source software is now the shortest route to bringing innovation to market.

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Windows 2003: Microsoft's next support sinkhole

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 06/16/2014 - 12:00

Quick: Name a Microsoft operating system whose end of support will soon create major problems for the businesses that depend on it.

Categories: IT General

Intel pushes JavaScript changes to support parallel processing

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 06/16/2014 - 12:00

Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although it could be a while before their

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Watch 'The Daily Show' skewer Google Glass wearers

Top Tech Stories - Mon, 06/16/2014 - 12:00

Remember when that annoying PR person made news because she went into a San Francisco bar while wearing Google Glass, ran afoul of the regular clientele, then fabricated hysterical charges like "assault" and "hate crime" to describe what happened to her? Didn't you think, "Man, 'The Daily Show' would have fun with that kind of stupidity!" Well, "The Daily Show" has obliged, as shown in the video below.

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10 'geek dads' share tales and tips from the IT trenches

Top Tech Stories - Sat, 06/14/2014 - 12:00
Tech pros weigh in on fatherhood, workhood, and how they balance the two Dek:  Tech pros weigh in on fatherhood, workhood, and how they balance the two External Source:  computerworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/155976
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10 'geek dads' share tales and tips from the IT trenches

Top Tech Stories - Sat, 06/14/2014 - 12:00
Tech pros weigh in on fatherhood, workhood, and how they balance the two Dek:  Tech pros weigh in on fatherhood, workhood, and how they balance the two External Source:  computerworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/155976
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Docker could threaten cloud providers' portability plans

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:42

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Browser bonanza: What's new in Firefox 30, IE11, Chrome 35, and Safari 8

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:41

Accelerating change is a truism of today's fast-paced world. It's also an apt description for the onslaught of browser updates.

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Hewlett-Packard's 'Machine': Vaporware, meet empty suit

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:39

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Quality, not quantity, is the real mobile app problem

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:37

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9 rules to follow after you've suffered a data breach

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:35

Upmarket Chinese restaurant chain PF Chang's became the latest prominent company to have its name linked with a data breach and stolen customer information.

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Relive six decades of the computer desktop's changing face

Top Tech Stories - Fri, 06/13/2014 - 12:00
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Do you ever look at your computer's screen and think, “How on Earth did we get here?” Windows, Mac, GNOME, KDE, and Ubuntu's Unity are all born from a common history of desktop environment design stretching back to the 1960's.

Dek:  This trip down memory lane traces major milestones in the evolution of the desktop environment External Source:  networkworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/156246
Categories: IT General

Google open-sources PDF software library

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:49

Google has started an open source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms.

The project, called PDFium, will also be wrapped into Google's Chrome browser, replacing closed-source code, according to a post from Google's Chromium project evangelist, François Beaufort.

Categories: IT General

Google open-sources PDF software library

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:49

Google has started an open source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms.

The project, called PDFium, will also be wrapped into Google's Chrome browser, replacing closed-source code, according to a post from Google's Chromium project evangelist, François Beaufort.

Categories: IT General

The 12 biggest, baddest, boldest software backdoors of all time

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:00
These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it Dek:  These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/155947
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The 12 biggest, baddest, boldest software backdoors of all time

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:00
These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it Dek:  These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what's in your software -- and who can control it External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/155947
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Tech giants finally grow a spine and resist NSA spying

Top Tech Stories - Thu, 06/12/2014 - 12:00

Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed

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