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Managing mobile devices: 10 lessons learned, via Forrester

Modern CIOs face complex challenges as employees bring in their various smartphones and tablets to the workplace

Can Google+ Compete with Facebook?

It's "game on" in the battle between Google and Facebook for social network supremacy

How to access Facebook in Pirate speak

Yesterday was International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day, but if you don't want the fun to end, now you can read Pirate English all year round.

HAL 9000 will soon be a reality

Your phone and other devices are quickly evolving into intelligent robot assistants you can talk to

Five things you should know about Facebook's new friends lists

The old "Lists" feature is revamped, possibly influenced by Google+

Why be a Pirate? Use open source software instead

Business decision-makers who get their proprietary software illegally need to wake up and check out the free alternatives

Why is Windows Phone 7 winning over indie app developers?

Microsoft's mobile platform is struggling to keep up with iOS and Android - but for some indie developers, it's a perfect fit.

Learn the basics of PostgreSQL

Get started with the world's most advanced open source database

Can Facebook Find a Hit with Music? Probably Not

Once again, speculation over a Facebook music service is buzzing online

NoSQL offers speed and scalability advantagees

Users rejecting traditional relational databases for more flexible approach

Seven free LibreOffice extensions for business

The open source office suite is now enterprise-ready

Four reasons to upgrade to Firefox 6

Has the open source web browser changed enough to be worth updating?

Four things you should know about Adobe Edge

Don't expect Adobe to stop supporting Flash altogether

NoSQL and NewSQL overturning the relational database hegemony

Critical enterprise applications shown up by younger competitors

Scala designer cites goals and directions for JVM alternative

Developer Martin Odersky discusses origin and plans for Scala, a statically typed language that can be used to build Android apps

Windows 8 could tempt tablet developers over to Microsoft

Touch applications could be the magic medicine for the Windows app business

15 essential open source tools for Windows administrators

Microsoft offers great tools for enhancing your server-side experience, but open source has impressive options as well

Top 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

Microsoft has outdone itself with a revamped UI and hundreds of new features

Facebook and Google+: Competing for privacy in a social media world

Google and Facebook have been criticised for their privacy controls for years, but can it get better?

Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of "bug"

Did Grace Hopper really invent the term "bug" to describe software errors?

Microsoft's 5 biggest weaknesses

The emergence of mobile devices and the web is showing how much we can do without using a Microsoft program

Microsoft Office 365: Is it right for your business?

The cloud office applications market is a hot property

A developer's guide to Java Standard Edition 7

A multitude of updates and improvements for Java devs

How to tell a good programmer from a bad one

Hire the best people for your application development jobs

Hardware commoditisation turns intelligent device manufacturing into a software business

Creating an ongoing revenue stream from embedded software


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