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This week, we look at the the most in-demand programming skills, why boring data centers are often a good thing and the development of "apperating systems" like Facebook Home.

The Facebook Home idea, especially on the open source Android phone OS, is so bad on so many levels, it's a non-starter. In fact, the only person who likes this idea is probably Mark Zuckerberg.

The hardware is so nice, I found myself reaching for this instead of my MacBook Pro.

I've had the extreme pleasure of playing with the Chromebook Pixel this week. It's an absolutely gorgeous piece of hardware, but it's not perfect. Here's what I would change.

This week, we explore why your code could work and still suck, define the open source cloud, and offer 10 BYOD best practices.

I can't remember the last time I picked up a comScore mobile market share report and came away surprised, but that's what happened today.

If someone told you to come up with an RFP processing system in less than a week for less than $10,000, you might rightly asked if they were high. Here's how a consultant created just such a system in the Cloud for the State of Washington to be its 'pot czar.' Hint: He used WordPress as the base for all the ingredients.

This week, we look at 10 mobile security tips, rolling your own servers and open source software copyright issues.

A newly-minted BYOD survey yielded some surprising results about usage, security, and the industries most prepared for BYOD. Guess which phone OS users password protect their the phones the most?

You can migrate to a new version of Windows without killing the CTO. It's really possible and this post gives you some practical real-world advice on how to do it, and like any good project it starts with communication and planning.

Oracle reported a modest loss in its most recent quarterly earnings report, but it could be a sign of a more fundamental underlying problem as the company faces pressure from cheaper cloud and open source alternatives.

This week, we look at 7 free Android editors, Microsoft's personality disorder and the most profitable mobile apps.

While Android rules mobile market share, when it comes to usage, iOS users tend to be much more active, and as this infographic from Go Go Inflight illustrates, that's true in skies too.

With so many flavors of Android, and some so radically different from one another is it fair to still consider Android a single operating system or many smaller ones?

Two-two-two cell phones in one sounds pretty good to IT -- and it's exactly what Samsung is doing with its new enterprise-friendly product: Knox. You can protect the enterprise data inside a nice little container all by itself, but this writer doesn't necessarily see the value for the end user to have separate work and personal lives on the same phone.

This week, if Linux were a dog, five ways to save Windows 8 and why janitors make good developers.

At my recent trip to Mobile World Congress, I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of the latest and greatest smarphones, and you know what? There are lot of nice phones out there, but unfortunately for most manufacturers, the quality of their phones simply doesn't matter because two companies rule the mobile roost and it doesn't seem as though anyone can break that stranglehold.

Nobody wants to give the man (the enterprise), the right to see what's on their phone and wipe it at will if they feel it's been compromised. One way to allevate that is to containerize or partition the corporate data so if the relationship ends or the phone gets lost or stolen, IT simply shuts off access to enterprise data. Your vacation pictures and other personal data remain intact.

When you look at market share statistics, it's clear that the two phones aimed specifically at the corporate market -- BlackBerry and Windows Phone -- have been choked to death by BYOD.

This week, we look at 5 reasons Win 8 is failing, why even cloud haters will be assimilated and how this is not your father's software industry.