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Ballmer’s Exit Revives Arguments for a Microsoft Breakup

Now that Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement (and added $800 million to his bank account by doing so), the analysts have rushed to...

BlackBerry World’s Problem Is a Lack of Support, Not Quality

A week after BlackBerry announced that it was open to being acquired—among other possibilities—BerryReview reported that BlackBerry's developer community wasn't as large or diverse...

Open-Source Adobe Brackets Web Development Comes to Linux

When it comes to Web development, Adobe's Dreamweaver (originally from Macromedia) is a well-known and widely deployed tool. Like most of Adobe's commercial tools,...

Open-Source Apache Web Server Hits Ignominious Milestone

Since the dawn of the Web era, one technology has steadfastly dominated as the world's most popular Web server. That technology is the open-source...

IT Market Forecasting Gets Dicey in Cloud Services, BYOD Era

The half year mark is when the major technology research organizations recalibrate their technology predictions. This year is no different, with both Forrester Research...

Cell Phones With X-Ray Vision, Mega-Speed WiFi Feasible: MIT

Cell phones that peer through walls and wireless connection speeds increased by 10 times are technically feasible, and prototypes have already been demonstrated, according...

‘Journey Management’ Becomes Part of CIO Job Description

"Journey management," is the new buzzword for CIOs to describe their technology development strategy. John Herbert, 20th Century Fox CIO, used the term last...

A Microsoft Upgrade Worth Considering

NEW ORLEANS—While much of the attention of the recent enterprise system announcements at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference was focused on the embrace of all...

Apple, Amazon, Walmart and the Art of the Killer Deal

Apple has been accused of price-fixing ebooks and working with major publishing houses to raise prices pushed down by Amazon.As the trial began in...

TechEd 2013: Microsoft Backs Development Strategy Built Around Azure

NEW ORLEANS—"Do the work in the tools you know." That phrase from Eron Kelly, SQL general manager at Microsoft, summarized the company's TechEd conference...