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This week we look at Sandy's impact on data centers, why one writer doesn't care about "Agile" and securing applications while using Platform as a Service.

At a glance, the whole Windows 8 cloud-mobile strategy seems like a radical new approach for Microsoft, but when you dig a little deeper, it's really just the same all-Microsoft lock-in strategy it's been using for years. The big difference though is Microsoft is not alone on the playing field anymore and users can choose their devices.

This week we explore why some users want to give up Java, how Google Compute Engine could challenge AWS and the status of the HTML5 Apps platform.

A recent survey found that most respondents had no clue what the term "Cloud Computing" meant, but were using cloud services without realizing it. And that's fine because our goal shouldn't be to advance industry buzz words, it should be to make good services that people use, regardless what you call the technology behind it.

This week we look at how to avoid developing "crapplications," building excitement for custom apps and the Top 10 cities for IT jobs.

After you win the battle of getting a user to download your app, you have to build in reasons for them to come back -- and that's the tricky part. If you bug your users, you could lose them.

Interesting dynamic here. When a CIO decided to move his company to the cloud, the users pushed back. When he got executive buy-in from the CFO, things went much more smoothly and users grew to like the change eventually.

EA CIO Mark Tonnasen spoke at BoxWorks this week about the need for CIOs to lead their companies from traditional IT maintenance roles to more modern ones around service.

This week we look at why Apple should try to buy Nokia, if computer science majors need more practical training versus learning underlying theory and advice on how to ship great apps.

This week, we look at the computer science degree gap, changes in the iOS 6 App Store developers need to know about, and why business and IT still can't get along.

While Salesforce and Oracle are two very different companies, the fierce competitors face surprisingly similar issues when it comes to dealing with changes affecting their markets -- and both have a hard time adjusting to market forces. For one, it's the cloud. For the other, social.

A recent WSJ guest post argued that CIOs should rely more on human factors than on data. This is especially foolish advice in an age where big data gives CIOs access to more data than ever before -- and the ability to make much better data-driven decisions.

Conventional wisdom says when you go to the cloud, you lose IT jobs, but when I looked at some job posting data on Indeed.com, I found there were no simple answers to this supposition. As with any other technological shift, it gives and takes.

What could IT pros possibly learn from the newspaper industry collapse? More than you might imagine because all disruption follows a similar pattern and IT is in the throes of some major changes of its own.

This week we look at 2013 CIO priorities, how some companies are missing the mark with Agile and bringing Android mobile apps to Windows.

A recent survey found a surprising level of disaffection with HTML5 among mobile developers -- but the question is whether it's really an indicator of broad dissatisfaction or just the way this particular survey chose to look at the numbers.

This week we look at the benefits of hiring a hacker, a history of the microprocessor in pictures, and modern robots designed to do a job, but never rebel.

This week we look at Star Trek tech that's available today, why Apple and Microsoft mobile developers are upset and why development teams don't communicate better.

This week we look at why a SUSE OpenStack product is a good thing, the rise and fall of Flash and why Scrum Master and project manager are not the same.

With Android controlling the vast majority of smart phone marketshare, logic would dictate that developers would follow the eyeballs, but in fact, several studies suggest that developers follow the money -- and iOS has proven much more lucrative.