Drumbeat about Microsoft reorg grows louder
Reports of an imminent and broad Microsoft business reorganization keep mounting, including an anonymously sourced article from The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog that says CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil the plan on Thursday. Microsoft critics have pointed out for years that the company has a product lineup that is too big and too varied, and that it could make sense to split up the house that Bill Gates built into more independent subsidiaries or even spin off some units entirely.
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Note to all Internet users: Trust no one
Customers should assume that American multinational telecom companies are providing the U.S. government access to their personal data, according to whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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Tool shows real-time lag and error rates of major cloud providers
The whole idea of cloud computing is that it's supposed to provide the ability to spin up virtual resources quickly and easily. A new tool from startup Ravello Systems shows that can be done ... sometimes. After more than a month of monitoring three of the leading cloud computing providers Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and HP, Ravello found inconsistent performance in terms of the amount of time it takes to provision a virtual machine, and the rate of errors in doing so.
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Businesses are loaded with customer data, but unable to act upon it
Thanks to increasingly sophisticated analytics tools, virutally every business owner now has access to an array of information about his or her customers: Where they live, what language they speak, their gender, and even their income levels. You know what pages on your website they look at, and through your sales analytics, you know what products they buy.
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Proof-of-concept exploit available for Android vulnerability
Technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a recently announced Android vulnerability that potentially affects millions of devices and allows attackers to turn legitimate apps into Trojan programs.
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The worst -- and best -- IT job interview questions
You've probably seen them making the rounds on social media: the brain-busting, stutter-inducing questions asked in job interviews at places like Google (How many cows in Canada?), Apple (What are five ways to put a hole in a sheet of metal?), Dell (What songs best describe your work ethic?) and Novell (How would people communicate in a perfect world?). Less likely to be discussed is whether such interview questions actually help employers find the right IT pros.
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Citrix adds audio, video chat to Podio enterprise collaboration suite
Citrix has added native video and audio chat to its Podio enterprise social suite to complement the other communication and collaboration features in the product. Podio's video and audio chat feature is launched from the suite's browser-based interface, so users can initiate these types of communication sessions without moving to a separate product, the company said Tuesday.
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The PHP popularity puzzle
PHP, the venerable dynamic language used for server-side Web development, either is making a big comeback or is in a pronounced state of decline among developers. It all depends on how you look at it.
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