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Google is a complex company, but you would certainly expect them to embrace the cloud --and they do, just their own flavor of it. It seems that the company that wants us to trust our data on its servers doesn't trust its own data on others'. Ah the irony.

This week we look at the Web browser at 20, 9 hot mobile development skills and 3 cloud lessons from Netflix.

There is a prevailing notion that you can't do real work on mobile devices because "real" work requires Office, a keyboard and mouse, but I suggest that with just a little creativity we can develop apps that make us highly productive on mobile devices. We just have to rethink how we approach work in a mobile context.

We all know Google's Eric Schmidt has said some crazy things, but the other day at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo he said something that made a lot of sense. He said in the future digitally driven economy programmers would be at the heart of every company. And in that case, mamas may want their babies to grow up to be programmers.

Barnes and Noble, which adheres to the ePub standard enhanced the tool which ensures ePUB files adhere to industry standards

Surely every country that has learned about NSA spying is hopping mad, and with good reason, but the EU has reacted to these revelations in typical bureaucratic fashion: They have proposed a couple of meaningless cloud regulations.

This week, Facebook tries to bring us one step closer to the the death of the password, exploring the rock star developer myth and 40 years of UNIX.

Face it, the cloud isn't going anywhere because we sure as heck aren't going back to carrying 3.5 in floppies even if our devices had such a slot. Just as Danny and the Juniors once sang about rock and roll, the cloud is here to stay. It will never die. So can we stop the cloud viability discussions once and for all, please?

Android has a clear lead in marketshare in the US and worldwide, but when it comes to the enterprise, this chart shows, it's iOS leading the way.

Oracle is like any disrupted company. It's forced to choose between innovative newer database solutions, where competitors have already established cost-effective cloud and open source alternatives and its more lucrative (but shrinking) hardware business. It's a tough situation, and probably requires a CEO who is more concerned about his business than his racing team.

It's Friday and that means it's time for my weekly feature, 5 links for developers and IT Pros. This week we look at eight top IT Jobs for 2014, Linux-powered robotic asteroid miners and Xen and the art of open source project management.

Google leaves Oracle's MySQL and goes running into the arms of MariaDB. Sounds like an open source version of West Side Story, Silicon Valley Style...Maria, I just met a girl named Maria, and suddenly the name will never be the same, again...

The lines were still there. The product still flew out the door and by weekend's end in an astonishing show of strength, Apple had sold 9 million iPhones.

This week, we look at the software developer's guide to world domination, why application security is so hard and worldwide developer salary comparison.

With its marketshare mired in the doldrums, Microsoft's latest gambit to attract mobile customers? Pay Apple owners to give up their devices in exchange for Microsoft products. Good luck with that.

The next CEO better be bold, decisive and ready to focus on a core mission. That may mean upsetting the political apple cart, and letting go of some cash cows, but that's the way it's got to be.

This week, we look at lazy users still not taking security seriously, how developers could take advantage of Apple iBeacon and sexism in tech.

When Apple announced the 64-bit A7 chip for the iPhone 5S the other day, Twitter lit up with chatter about how this could affect programmers. But if Telerik's Todd Anglin is right, it won't have much of an impact on developers for the foreseeable future.

It's an insecure world out there. Just how are you supposed to protect your company's valuable assets. It's a tall order, but this infographic outlines the scope of the problem and offers some ways to keep mobile users safe from harm. It's not fool proof by any means, but it's a start.

The Stones once lamented in It's Only Rock and Roll, what did they have to do to satisfy our teenage lust --suicide right on the stage? Apple may be wondering just what it needs to do to satisfy our tech lust because no matter what it does, it won't be able to recreate the excitement of 2008.