13 Job Search Apps That Will Help You Get Hired Looking for a new job? In a market as competitive as IT you’ve got to be connected, organized and prepared. These apps will help you stay ahead of the curve […]
Tech Salary Guide for 2014
Tech Salary Guide for 2014 If you work in the tech industry, the good news is that overall salaries are up year-over-year. But you’re probably thinking, ‘Fine, but what does that mean to me?’ If you want to see where […]
How Microsoft had a hand in inventing Google’s glucose-sensing smart contact lens
Google X may have announced its smart contact lens project, but Microsoft Research says it worked on it first. Do you recall how Microsoft claimed it invented, or invisibly runs, practically everything? Along those lines, Microsoft Research is claiming partial […]
Ubuntu 13.10 takes aim at Microsoft, Apple, Google
Canonical is making a serious run at the cloud, client, server and smartphone markets Ubuntu is moving into the rarified class of operating systems that cover x86/x64 clients and servers, ARM-based tablets/smartphones, and commodity cloud instances. Meaning that it’s taking […]
Triple hop issue with ASP.NET delegation Part I: Our Windows XP Pro desktops
Last Friday we had an issue in production: we have a very simple web application with one single page on our intranet that consumes an array of web services. These web services talk to a back end SQL Server. All […]
True tales of (mostly) white-hat hacking
True tales of (mostly) white-hat hacking Stings, penetration pwns, spy games — it’s all in a day’s work along the thin gray line of IT security In the mainstream media, hacking gets a bum rap. Sure, the headline grabbers are […]
hot IT skills for 2014
Help desk staffers are coveted, but developers are the hottest commodity of all. When it comes to overall job prospects for IT professionals, 2014 will look a lot like this year, with 32% of companies expecting to increase head count […]
Why 2014 is the ‘year of smart glasses’
Raise your glass to the coming wave of face-top computing gadgets. You’ll see: There’s something for everybody. In the technology press, every year is the year of this and the year of that. Much of this kind of prediction is […]
Microsoft’s most monumental hits, misses, and moments of 2013
A whole lotta shaking They say you don’t move forward by standing still. In a frenzied grasp for relevance in the mobile age, Microsoft spent 2013 shaking things up at a cellular level. Beyond major new releases for the Xbox, […]
Want better passwords? Follow the lead of 1Password and make it easier for people
As password breaches fade into the backrgound as noise, capture attention and inspire action by providing value through the work of others As the spate of password breaches continues, the challenge is how quickly news of each new attack fades […]