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• 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.

• OS X Mountain Lion: A big cat for business?

  By Ryan Faas | 19 February, 2012 09:13

  Apple surprised the tech world by unveiling a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, the next generation of its desktop operating system set to ship this summer - just a year after OS X 10.7 Lion arrived.

• In depth: Hands on with Apple's new OS X, Mountain Lion

  By Jason Snell | 17 February, 2012 01:38

  Apple updates its iOS mobile operating system once a year. But why should the iPhone and iPad have all the fun? Apple has announced that it will release a new version of OS X—Mountain Lion—this summer, just a year after the release of OS X Lion.

• 20 popular Ubuntu Linux apps you may want to try

  By Katherine Noyes | 10 February, 2012 07:01

  As Ubuntu Linux continues to grow in popularity, most discussions of it tend to focus on the basics of the operating system itself, including especially details about its desktop environment and user interface.

• Windows XP: Pros and cons of not upgrading

  By Ian Paul | 27 October, 2011 04:41

  Windows XP users, your favorite operating system is a decade old, and if you're still using it, you're not cool anymore, at least according to Microsoft. That's the software giant's recent take on its aging OS, which is still more popular than Vista or Windows 7 worldwide. Microsoft is hoping the final cadre of users hanging on to XP will start to dump it and move to the more modern Windows 7.

• Guide: How to sync your PC, smartphone, and tablet

  By Loyd Case | 29 September, 2011 23:55

  A few years ago businesspeople carried a laptop on the road, used a desktop PC in the office, and worked on another PC at home. Maybe they had a BlackBerry, too--but only if they were real big shots.

• Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars

  By Brad Reed | 21 September, 2011 06:26

  History may look at Android as the tech industry's Helen of Troy: The OS that launched a thousand suits.

• Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple

  By Maria Korolov and Wang Fangqing | 22 August, 2011 20:39

  If you've ever gone to Apple's mobile app store and purchased games like High Noon, Gamebox1 or Doodletruck, then you've downloaded an app from the burgeoning Chinese software development community.

• Why IT won't like Mac OS X Lion Server

  By John Rizzo | 25 July, 2011 23:40

  Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server adds innovative features and a new low price tag, but cuts in services and the elimination of advanced GUI administration tools may force some enterprise departments to think twice about the role of Mac servers on their networks.

• 5 features iOS needs, in order to sway me from Android

  By Jared Newman | 30 March, 2011 07:54

  With Apple preparing to talk about the future of iOS at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the rumor mill churning, it's time for an old tradition: the iPhone feature wish list.

• Enterprise collaboration: 4 ways to achieve more

  By Kristin Burnham | 24 March, 2011 06:28

  A new report from Forrester Research finds that while businesses continue to adopt enterprise collaboration tools in 2011, they're not seeing a wide range of benefits from them.