Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface

New CEO Satya Nadella comes out swinging on ‘cloud first, mobile first’ strategy As expected, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today hosted a press conference where the company unveiled Office for iPad, breaking with its past practice of protecting Windows by first launching…

CEOs Microsoft missed

In Satya Nadella, Microsoft played it sensible. Here are the Ballmer successors we tech wags wanted to make our Redmond-flogging jobs a little easier Cringely’s top 10 finalists for Microsoft CEO Discussion, speculation, uncaring frivolity — it’s all fair game when it…

The 8 Most In-Demand Big Data Roles

The 8 Most In-Demand Big Data Roles As more organizations begin to get on the big data bandwagon, demand for IT professionals with the skills to collect, organize, analyze and architect disparate sources of data is on the rise. Demand For Big…

Skype’s Impressive Growth, Sonus Updates SBC Portfolio

Skype Traffic Grew 36% in 2013 Market research firm TeleGeography reports that Skype’s international traffic volume continues to grow significantly. TeleGeography estimates that Skype’s on-net (Skype to Skype) international traffic grew 36% in 2013, to 214 billion minutes. By comparison, International telephone…

10 Linux distros to watch in 2014

What to expect in the world of Linux in the upcoming year. Every year, around December, people like to come up with their predictions for what they believe will happen in the technology world in the year to come. This is like…

Social Engineering: The Basics

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….

6 dirty secrets of the IT industry II

The classic illustration of this principle occurred in January 2012, when U.S. and New Zealand authorities shut down Kim Dotcom’s MegaUpload file locker in January 2012. Along with a trove of allegedly pirated movies, the authorities confiscated the data of thousands of…