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Take a look at Ortsbo’s revolutionary language software. The world may never be the same as long as we keep to the mundane and resist the temptation to build a tower to heaven.

Quoth The Maven evermore: “Prepare for Apple’s gentle rapping, a-tapping at your data center door.”

Everyone has predictions for the coming year but when the CTO of a major Cloud provider speaks, you should listen. John Engates, Rackspace CTO, gives his 2012 Cloud predictions.

Cloud security raises a lot of hackles (no pun intended). Cloud security is no better or worse than any other but its strength is up to you.

What’s on your big wish list for 2012? A new gadget? A new car? A better job? Think bigger.

Take one tablet and call me anytime.

Web-based desktops. A concept so dirty that it has to be associated with The Cloud. It’s even dirtier to think that you can save a lot of money by embracing that concept.

What’s your next desktop OS or desktop manager going to look like? Have you been sucked into the dumbed-down, new-fangled garbage floating your way or are you going retro?

Is there a Hacker Gene? Is the hacker personality a learned set of behaviors? Research suggests that both are at work.

Another iCloud gotcha called Photo Stream is calling to you from the great Cloud. Resistance is futile. You and your PC will be assimilated.

Virtualization seems to be everyone’s answer to every problem. For BYOD, it might just be the answer to stressed budgets and user happiness.

Storing your App data to Apple’s iCloud is very convenient. A little too convenient maybe. Find out how to manage your iCloud backup data before you spend money on storage you don’t need.

Who knew that BYOD was the new IT religious war? BYOD is inevitable but the Zeitgeist hasn’t quite arrived. Too much FUD and too little history surrounds this exciting new era of enterprise computing.

Are you for BYOD or against it? What are the pros and cons of user-owned devices? Vote and find out.

You are the weakest security link but you can be fixed. The fix is simple to say out loud but not so simple to do.

What will make the Cloud an acceptable location for business? It’s your turn to sound off and offer some solutions for Cloud security.

If virtualization were truly evil, it would be a lot more popular than it is. Unfortunately, Linus Torvalds thinks virtualization is evil. Evil technology should be made of sterner stuff.

Becoming a hacker is a worthwhile pursuit. Do you have what it takes to become a hacker? It takes dedication, intelligence and an analytic mind. You must have a desire to solve problems, a knack for verbal and written communication and a persistence to try new approaches when solutions don’t come easily.

The definition for the term hacker is as elusive as those who earn the moniker. Find out from the accepted source what a hacker really is.

Windows 8 currently boasts the same hardware requirements as Windows 7. Don’t believe it. Microsoft has never been accurate with its hardware specifications yet.