Quora: The next social network IT pros need to know?
Quora is an increasingly popular social network for asking and answering questions on topics ranging from how Britney Spears was discovered to how to flee Tokyo following an earthquake.
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Firefox 4 tops 100M downloads but fails to gain on IE
In the month since Firefox 4's launch, the browser has racked up 100 million downloads, Mozilla said last weekend. But statistics from one Web analytics company showed that Firefox 4's introduction has done nothing to boost Mozilla's overall share of the browser market.
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Microsoft's own numbers suggest declining Windows market share
Last summer, Microsoft announced that it had sold 175,000,000 Windows 7 licenses through the end of June 2010.
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Microsoft shows class in disclosing Google zero-day
Back in June of last year, Tavis Ormandy, a Google engineer in Switzerland, caused quite a stir.
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IBM tailors BPM for small business
IBM has customized its new BPM (business process management) software to help small and midsized organizations set up their own automated workflows just like big businesses do. Most BPM tools "are built for thousands of users and to run across multiple servers, and so they can get complex and expensive. This [software] addresses the BPM need in the mid-market," said Ron Kline, an IBM director for marketing to small and midsized businesses. "It fits the need for a midsized company, without it being too lightweight."
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Microsoft to relieve 'Excel hell' with Web crawlers for enterprise data
Business data is growing so fast that the task of managing it all is becoming nearly as complicated as indexing the Web, and new technologies are needed to help enterprises cope.
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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
It was a very green week, whether you're celebrating Earth Day or the unofficial 420 holiday. But that's not all that went down. Google poured money into pet alternative-energy projects, Apple and Samsung took their tablet battle to the courts, the FBI went all in on offshore poker sites, and Kohler toilets got an IQ upgrade. Are you smarter than your average commode? Prove it by acing our quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now get cracking -- and please don't hog the test, other people need to use it too.
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Amazon EC2 outage calls 'availability zones' into question
For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won't suffer from downtime. "By launching instances in separate Availability Zones, you can protect your applications from failure of a single location," Amazon says in pitching its Elastic Compute Cloud service.
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