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Seven great Google Spreadsheet gadgets

One of the best-kept secrets of Google Docs, these gadgets add powerful features to your spreadsheets.

HTML5 - Eight reasons to gear up to latest HTML iteration now

The W3C won't finalise the latest incarnation of HTML until 2014, but there are plenty of reasons to incorporate HTML5 into current web development projects

Mobile apps infrastructure takes to the cloud

For enterprises there are several advantages to moving to a cloud-based infrastructure for mobile applications

Ruby and the myth of developer productivity

We live in an exciting new world of web development languages. But pitches selling the productivity benefits of one language over another miss the point

Cloud lifts the ceiling on high-end computing

Next generation processors and servers are raising the prospect of what is effectively high performance computing in your own data centre

Universities minister touts UK tech investment credentials

Intel Collaborative Research Institute shows UK is an attractive place for high tech R&D investment

Are financial IT systems ready for a Greek euro exit?

Banks have been preparing for the dismantling of the euro for over a year, but are they ready for anything?

Cloud APIs – Extending SOA and Web 2.0 architectures

There is no standard way of creating or managing the way cloud resources get accessed by the end user, despite their increasing use by IT organisations

Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch big data

The BigQuery service is an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for terabyte-scale datasets

Should you build a corporate app store?

By stealing the march on consumer IT and providing your own app store, you could control authentication, configuration, and distribution of your mobile app inventory

The dangers of embedded system security

Experts say embedded device and systems makers are eons behind in secure system design and development maturity

Why is Instagram so popular?

Seeing a lot of dingy, scratched-up photos in your social-network feeds? You can blame the Instagram app.

Will DevOps be as big as Cloud and Big Data?

Pressure to develop applications faster is causing IT departments to realign their strategies