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A speaker I saw last week at Mobile World Congress suggested that people with smartphones have a huge advantage over people that don't have one -- and extending that out, people with wearable computers like Google Glass might have an even bigger one. Do you agree?

This week, iOS usage explodes at Mobile World Congress, Android's problems in the the enterprise and White House debates ways to respond to cyber attacks.

I was in Germany last week and I did a little bit of research on BYOD and found German attitudes were distinctly more conservative than in the US -- and Germans were actually anxious to unplug from work when it was over.

This week, we look at why you need to hack yourself, a computer that never crashes and the sad return of Linux FUD.

Eighteen months after HP abandoned its first tablet comes rumor of a new Android offering. Don't expect different results

Apple and Google have the most robust app stores, and consumers and developers alike pay attention. It will be hard for competitors to break that success cycle.

This week we look at Android's market dominance, the fall of BlackBerry in the enterprise and why cloud computing needs standards.

As Microsoft struggles to stay relevant, squeezed between the iPad on one side and Chromebook on the other, sales of Windows 8 devices are grim -- and if you're an IT pro looking to the future, it's worth noting that there are alternatives now.

It's clear iOS and Android rule the roost among developers today, but there are number of promising alternatives on the way or already here including a maturing HTML5 standard and several open source offerings. I run down the options with Telerik's Todd Anglin.

This week we look at cloud detractor's three levels of insanity, whether Chromebooks are ready for the enterprise and if the new open source smartphone operating systems on the way can be viable.

Microsoft and BlackBerry face a a paradox. They can't really attract developers in large numbers away from iOS and Android without a critical mass of phones -- and phone buyers tend to stay away from phones without a vibrant app store. It's a stalemate that's going to be tough to break.

This week, an IT pro confronts his cloud fears, why the programming profession isn't getting replaced by robots and soft skills every IT pro should know.

This week we look at hacking the hackers, 5 reasons why the Ubuntu Linux mobile OS might just succeed and the Internet by the numbers in 2012.

A developer explains how he transformed travel magazine content into a dynamic iOS app that takes advantage of advanced device functions.

You can't beat the price of the $249 Chromebook, but when you sell a machine that cheaply, you have to cut corners and the limitations are many and hard to overlook.

Many old-school IT guys scoff that consumerization is the flavor of the month, but in truth, the way we use computers has fundamentally changed -- and IT needs to embrace that or get left behind.

The week we look at the ABCs of enterprise SaaS, why open source documentation sucks and top 10 IT influencers.

I've got good news and bad news for developers. The good news is you're going to be in greater demand than ever. The bad news is you're going to need learn to develop apps for everything from refrigerators to automobiles -- and in some cases, a lack of standards is going to complicate things, at least for awhile.

In 2012 mobile continued its upward growth trajectory while the poor old PC stayed flat as a pancake, and the PC better face it, as technology demographics continue to shift toward mobile, it's going to be the second banana in the future.

This week, we look at how to find gems in your software development log files, Ubuntu smart phones and managing IT on a cruise line.