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In spite of ad blitzes and marketing campaigns galore, Microsoft still lost market share in the latest comScore numbers, a development that has to be discouraging to Redmond almost a year after launch.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 11/4/11
This week we look at Internet Explorer's plunging numbers, Apple's sand box and ridiculous EULA clauses.
Playing the Outage Blame Game
Sometimes things go wrong that are completely out of your control including natural disasters and freaks of nature, but that doesn't mean powerful people won't use the situation to point the finger of blame at you.
Apps Growing in Popularity and Importance
New research shows that apps are gaining in popularity, and if you want to attract younger workers and customers, you need to start developing now.
HP Needs to Find a Plan and Stick to It
HP has been on a messaging roller coaster for the last 18 months and it's time that it found a message and stuck to it. The market is completely confused and confounded.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 10/28/11
This week we look at a debate on the merits of cloud computing, WebGL and the future of the web, and amazingly bad password practices
IBM Hops on Big Data Analysis Band Wagon
As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 10/21/11
This week we look at 5 ways to keep geeks happy, signs you could be a bad programmer and why one writer will choose Android over iOS every time.
HP and Oracle Hope to Make Sense of Big Data
When HP and Oracle are buying search companies to make sense of unstructured data, maybe you should be paying attention.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 10/17/11
This week, we explore the connection between Money Ball and software development, the true IT trends (beyond the hype), and if cloud security will ever be good enough for the cloud haters.
Jobs' Death Taxes Internet Services
When Steve Jobs died last week, it sent a traffic surge across the Internet, the likes of which we've never seen, and it affected even sites like Amazon and eBay where you might least expect it.
Microsoft's Conflicted Mobile-Cloud Vision
Microsoft faces a dilemma when it comes to supporting competing mobile platforms because of their huge marketshare. But it really needs to take a broader view it wants to build a complete cloud-mobile connection, especially with its more popular products.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 10/7/11
This week, we look at IT as Dante's Inferno, why innovation is wired in developer's brains and the most likely IT jobs to survive the next decade.
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 9/30/11
This week we look at identifying passionate developers, explore cloud paranoia and speculate on life after the silicon computer chip.
Study Finds Freemium Model Generates Big App Store Income
A study by Distimo, an analysis firm that watches the AppStore market found that a strategy of providing free or low-cost apps, then charging for fuller functionality accounted for significant income for developers -- and developers may want to pay attention to that.
Lucid Imagination brings open source search to big data
With the release of LucidWorks 2.0, Lucid Imagination is making it easier for enterprise customers to install and manage open source search tools Apache Lucene and Solr and to manage data from a variety of sources including Hadoop and Amazone EC2.
Will Patent Wars Eventually Have Impact on Mobile It?
The courts are increasingly getting involved in mobile technology as patent and trademark infringement lawsuits proliferate. It could have an impact on IT as court decisions and patent trolling lead to market uncertainty (which is probably the idea).
5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 9/23/11
This week we look at Android Malware problems, MySQL moving away from open source and a cartoon on how to identify underperforming developers.
Windows Phone 7 Mango Ready. Does it Matter?
IDC is predicting the Windows Phone OS will have 20 percent marketshare by 2015, but I'm not sure it can gain anywhere near that traction without a lot of luck and some killer phones from its manufacturing partners.
Metro Doesn't Mean Immediate Death of .net
.NET has a lot of life left in it, in spite of what you might have concluded watching the Metro dog and pony show last week at the Microsoft Build Conference.
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