Tech

  • 10 Chrome offline apps for business

    10 Chrome offline apps for business With the latest release of Chrome for Windows (and Chrome OS on Chromebooks), you can install apps that will work even if your computer is not online. These apps work essentially like native desktop OS applications: Their code is installed locally on your computer. […]

  • How time is spent on web development

    How time is spent on web development Dear reader, Ok, the image above is pretty… and pretty hilarious as well. I must say that some of these time lines are true though. No, I don’t hate 100% IE, I still think it was the first browser that introduced the XmlHttpRequest […]

  • Data scientists: IT’s new rock stars

    Data scientists: IT’s new rock stars These days, just showing up to work as a data scientist will get you attention. The evolution of the data scientist role is making even those who are successful in IT wish they could go back. In an interview with Network World last month, […]

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    App dev 2013: The winners and losers

    JavaScript, APIs, and PaaS advance; Samsung tries to stand out; and Java and .Net become legacy platforms The software development landscape in 2013 saw technologies like JavaScript rise to new heights while others — Java, for example — maintained their prominence out of sheer inertia. For software developers this year, […]

  • Attackers could match phone numbers to Snapchat accounts

    A legitimate feature for finding friends on Snapchat lacks rate limiting and can be abused, a security research group claims A security hole in popular photo messaging service Snapchat could allow attackers to find the phone numbers of many users in a short period of time, according to Gibson Security, […]

  • Balky browsers tick off tablet owners

    Crashes are the top complaint from iPad Air, Fire HDX owners, No. 2 annoyance on iPad Mini, says Fixya Browser problems are the most common complaints of iPad Air and Fire HDX tablet owners, an online community of troubleshooters said Friday. San Mateo, Calif.-based Fixya mined 10,000 user-generated reports related […]

  • As Unix fades away from data centers, it’s unclear what’s next

    Linux is gaining ground today, but a cloud OS or some other new technology may become more important in time LAS VEGAS – Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five […]

  • The worst IT project disasters of 2013

    The Healthcare.gov rollout leads a pack of painful projects Trends come and go in the technology industry but some things, such as IT system failures, bloom eternal. “Nothing has changed,” said analyst Michael Krigsman of consulting firm Asuret, an expert on why IT projects go off the rails. “Not a […]

  • Social Engineering: The Basics 2014

    What is social engineering? What are the most common and current tactics? A guide on how to stop social engineering. You’ve got all the bells and whistles when it comes to network firewalls and your building’s security has a state-of-the-art access system. You’ve invested in the technology. But a social […]

  • ‘Team Moscow’ wins $100K in PayPal’s Battle Hack 2013

    PayPal’s contest challenged teams from around the world to create best app to help community A group of Russian software developers dubbed “Team Moscow” has won PayPal’s $100,000 Battle Hack 2013 awarded for the best socially worthy use of PayPal’s API. A team of Israel finished second and one from […]