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Hard to believe, but five years ago today Apple launched the App Store, and with it changed the face of IT as we knew it, ushering in the BYOD and consumerization trends and altering user expectations forever.

This week, we look at the growing cost of data breaches, 7 signs your project's tanking and Larry Ellison admits future is in cloud.

A new report finds that if you don't pay attention to mobile, you will lose your mobile audience very quickly, and in some instances you won't get a second chance.

On Saturday, I traveled to New York City with my chief photographer, my wife, and was fitted with my very own Google Glass. This slideshow on Internet Evolution documents the experience. It was a fun day, let's put it that way and Google made it feel like a special adventure.

Since revelations about the NSA PRISM program surfaced, there has been a debate about the safety and viability of the public cloud, but if the government has you in its sights, where you store your data isn't going to matter.

This week, how Linux seriously rules super computers, why the tin foil hat brigade is wrong to diss the cloud and 9 reasons your sys admin hates you.

This week, we look at new network security models in the age of cloud and mobile, developers skills that will earn you top dollar and if smartphones are making us stupid.

Mobile app developers can't afford the luxury of having the passion of the average Android or iOS fanboy. They follow the money. For now, Apple's App store is far ahead of Google Play in terms of developer revenue, but the trend is in Android's favor, and developers should be paying attention.

This week, we look at why developers are cheap bastards, why Windows 8 is failing and how smart developers generate lousy code.

It may be time for Microsoft to simply face facts about its mobile strategy. The numbers don't lie and Win8 smartphones and tablets are barely making a dent.

This week we look at the 7 best open source projects for newbies, why a bad app could be worse than no app and programming languages you should skip.

In the Star Trek Book of Management, there are two approaches to big data decision making: The Kirk way and the Spock way. Which type are you?

This week we explore getting rid of IT, the twisted mind of the software tester and promoting Agile in Waterfall culture.

This week, we look at The Open Compute Project's push into open source networking switches, how to determine if a new software language is a turkey and a developer who thinks he must be a bad programmer because he can't find a job.

We've seen a lot of hysteria around Google Glass and the belief that people can secretly record you. I spoke to the project's technical lead, someone who has been working on wearable computers since the 90s, and I'm here to tell you that hysteria is completely misplaced. If someone wants to secretly record you, there are a lot more sneaky ways than Google Glass (which is sitting on your face in plain sight).

This week we explore, non-existant Windows 8 app revenue, the state of 3D printing and cloud naysayers needing to face reality.

Employees have to deal with too many passwords and it's gotten so bad that in the name of making your systems secure, you may be less secure -- because employees could be writing them down to remember them. Hard to be less secure than that.

This week we look at how to build apps your users will hate, 10 security holes that would make Murphy proud, and that you might have missed --and a game app developer who got 10K downloads in just 8 days.

When Google announced Blink earlier this month, then Samsung and Mozilla followed quickly with an announcement they were partnering on a new browser called Servo, it probably shook up a few developers, and with good reason. This in-depth piece looks at 5 things you need to know about these announcements -- and why you might not need to panic just yet.

This week, we look at proof open source is taking over, why the Chromebook is so misunderstood and how Intel new about the PC's decline before IDC.