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Anyone who is technically inclined is well versed in the observer effect, even if they may not be sure what that term actually means.

Recently I met up with an old friend at cafe in San Francisco's Mission District, the kind where hipsters pay six bucks for an individually brewed cup of ultracaffeinated coffee. We didn't belong there -- we were too old.

Nobody questions that OpenSSL is a vital part of the Internet's infrastructure. So many fundamentals are built on top of it and in so many places.

Yesterday, Dustin Childs at the Microsoft Security Response Center advised that<

With a feel and finish rivaling that of the latest MacBook Pro Retina -- and a display capable of a super-Retina resoluti

Introducing the new mission for Amazon Web Services: mobile dominance.

The rise of cloud computing means that many enterprise IT resources have moved out of IT's control. Indeed, many people went directly to Amazon Web Services, Google, or Microsoft for IT services, bypassing IT altogether.

IT leaders have no one to blame but themselves for this shift. Although there are certainly very responsive IT organizations, many more have not provided solutions at the speed the business needs. When the cloud arose, users took the initiative and solved their own problems. I can't blame them.

It has always been part of the Microsoft vision: Your users can work anywhere, on any device, and it will all be secure, synchronized and responsive. But the execution of this vision has unfortunately had many holes in it: With Microsoft not playing nice in the licensing department, how was anyone to offer a truly mobile, cost-effective Windows desktop without needing a mobile device that ran Windows?