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Open source technology plays a key role in the modern world, powering a wide range of innovations from handheld devices to the world’s most powerful supercomputers and the cloud. Open source isn’t a meaningless marketing term, rather, it is defined by a number of a key characteristics. The first and most important is the license […]

Businesses have been building incubators and innovation-focused research labs for a long time, but tech companies have taken it to a whole new level in the last few years. Some of them are “skunkworks” labs, operating in secret and attempting wild ideas that may or may not work. (Think Amazon’s delivery drones.) Others are less […]

It’s time to pick a gift for your favorite small business owner (even if it’s you). You could go the office superstore gift card route (boring!), but this holiday season why not give the entrepreneur in your life a gift that lasts longer than a lunchtime errand? Small Business Computing.com has collected a list of […]

More and more companies are transitioning to software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as Google Apps, Salesforce and Zoho. In fact, analyst firm Gartner estimates SaaS sales in 2010 reached $10 billion, and will more than double by 2015 to a projected $21.3 billion. Cloud-to-cloud backup provider Backupify recently teamed up with Spiceworks to survey more than […]

PhoneGap Build: Developing Cross Platform Mobile Applications in the Cloud This excerpt from chapter four focuses on using PhoneGap Build, including beginning steps, creating builds for different mobile platforms, loading private keys, and installing builds on the emulator. PhoneGap is a standards-based, open-source development framework that can be deployed to any mobile device without losing […]

A few years ago, the vision of mobile payment systems hinged on near-field communications (NFC) technology, which promised secure storage of credit card data on a chip. It was hoped that electronics companies would be eager to incorporate such chips into mobile devices, but most weren’t interested. In addition to NFC technology that is slowly […]

ISACA’s 2013 IT Risk/Reward Barometer found that two-thirds (67 percent) of U.S. consumers believe certain personalized promotional tactics are invasive when shopping at brick-and-mortar stores, while only 55 percent found a similar set of tactics invasive when shopping on the Web. “Despite how much information people share online, they still cherish the concept of personal […]

They annoy, they distract, and they kill work productivity. You know who they are — those people on your team or in your department who just drive you up the wall. Maybe it’s the person who always negates everything you say just so they can feel smart. Maybe it’s that certain somebody who’s always checking […]

In a normal day, companies and individuals must transfer files containing many different types of sensitive and mission-critical information across systems, businesses and departments – everything from legal documents to X-rays to credit card statements. In an effort to get work done, employees will often skirt the rules of IT and turn to readily available […]

2013 was a breakthrough year for cloud storage. A recent survey showed that 60 percent of businesses decided to store their data in the cloud, and the benefits they’ve begun to realize range from cost and time savings to maintenance-free storage infrastructure. But the year also brought with it some controversy intertwined along with the […]

Kroll, a global leader in risk mitigation and response solutions, recently released its third annual Cyber Security Forecast, a prediction of the most significant cyber issues organizations will confront in 2014. The latest forecast highlights seven trends identified by Kroll and suggests that a changing tide in cyber standards, both social and legal, will require […]

Just as it is important for IT to know how and where users are taking corporate data, it is equally important for users to know how IT is accessing their devices. Having been on both sides of the equation, Adam Ely, co-founder and COO of Bluebox, recommends users ask six questions of IT before enrolling […]