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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.
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.
7 indispensable project management tips
In my role as a traveling computer security consultant, I meet with project managers every week.
SAP embraces opens source -- sort of
At the annual OSCON (Open Source Convention) last week, those stuck in a worldview of open source from the previous decade would have suffered serious cognitive dissonance.
Amazon is right to grow AWS at the expense of profits
Last week, Amazon.com said its cloud business grew by 90 percent last year, but the company was significantly less profitable than the year before. Its AWS (Amazon Web Services) business makes up the majority of a balance sheet item that Amazon.com labels as "other." In the latest quarter, the "other" revenue from that line of business grew by 38 percent, its lowest rate in at least three years.
Mobile security: A mother lode of new tools
Long, complex passwords that must be input on tiny screens, often while on the move: Such hassles make password-based security unworkable in a mobile world. But change is coming, thanks to an industrywide backlash that gave rise to a gold rush of new technologies.
Eventually mobile security may no longer hinge on whether a password is long enough, but on how well the device knows the user.
