• Oracle NetBeans 7.2 supports the latest PHP, C++

  By Joab Jackson | 25 May, 2012 18:34

  The newest version of the Oracle NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment) will come with support for the latest versions of PHP and C++.

• Quickbooks Online outage leaves some customers in sour mood

  By Chris Kanaracus | 25 May, 2012 17:12

  Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting software have now been fixed.

• Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

  By Fred O'Connor | 25 May, 2012 15:03

  A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

• Windows 8 update: all the latest rumours, opinions and possibilities

  By Tim Greene | 25 May, 2012 14:35

  While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear.

• Researchers propose TLS extension to detect rogue SSL certificates

  By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 20:35

  A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates.

• Supporting Office 2010

  By Shane O'Neill | 18 June, 2011 05:34

  At a time when Cloud computing services for productivity tools are gaining steam, you would think that desktop software like Office 2010 would be on a downslide.

• Internet Explorer 9: A getting started guide

  By Ian Paul | 16 March, 2011 01:32

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 officially launched late Monday and is ready for download here.

• Enable iTunes Home Sharing in iOS 4.3

  By Mike Keller | 09 March, 2011 04:54

  The next major iOS update is slated to be released this Friday, March 11, alongside the ultra-hyped iPad 2. One of the key features is a little something called iTunes Home Sharing, which allows users to stream music, podcasts, movies and more from PC to iOS device.

• Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  By Ian Harac | 09 March, 2011 06:09

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard disk.

• Digitize your movies

  By Jon L. Jacobi | 03 March, 2011 02:00

  Analog movies can be the easiest--or the hardest--medium to digitize, depending on the format you're working with. While older camcorder and video formats such as 8mm and Hi8 or VHS and Betamax tapes are easy to transfer, digitizing film can be difficult at best.

• In depth: Unified communications still fragmented

  By Bob Violino | 16 May, 2012 21:07

  Unified communications (UC) technology has garnered a fair amount of attention, much of it due to vendors touting their UC offerings as the answer to problems workers have keeping in touch with colleagues, business partners and customers in a highly frenetic, increasingly mobile business world.

• Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users

  By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2012 07:12

  What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has concluded.

• Analysis: Why Linux is a desktop flop

  By Maria Korolov | 30 April, 2012 21:28

  It's free, easier to use than ever, IT staffers know it and love it, and it has fewer viruses and Trojans than Windows.

• Guide: How to be ready for Big Data

  By Thor Olavsrud | 21 March, 2012 01:30

  Big Data is all the rage these days, and more than a few organizations are at least wondering what sort of business intelligence they could derive from all the information at their disposal.

• The big promise of big data

  By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

  For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

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