http://www.sys-con.com —  2008 was an eventful, breakthrough year for many open source companies, and 2009 will hold even more promise for the open source market, especially in terms of business purchasing patterns, software business model shifts, and enterprise software stack evolution. The current econo...

http://www.informationweek.com —  U.S. President-elect Barack Obama could name a CTO as early as Wednesday, but some people in the technology sector have complained about how long that has taken. In an industry driven by creators of the technology that allows millions of Americans to access information about eve...

http://www.techcrunch.com —  Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem). But someone hacking into Twitter's internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile accounts, including President Elect Barack Obama, has Twitter users fre...

http://www.eweek.com —  Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping an eye on. With IT budgets expected to be tight this year, small business owners must make wise investments in order to stay competitive. While mo...

http://www.eweek.com —  Cloud development platforms, mobile application development and the increasing acceptance of dynamic languages for Web development were among the top 10 stories in the world of software programming. With each passing year, software tools have become more sophisticated. While deve...

http://www.infoworld.com —  Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard ...

http://www.eweek.com —  As small business owners look to the new year, a report from SurePayroll suggests Main Street is doing better than many may have thought. Survival, however, will come at a price. A December survey by online payroll service SurePayroll, based in Glenview, Ill., suggests small to ...

http://silverlight.net —  I'm a huge supporter of open source software development and I'd like to take this opportunity to go over the Silverlight Contrib O/S project. Fair disclosure first though, my current role is Program Manager for the Silverlight Toolkit team which ships on codeplex (at http://www...

http://www.eweek.com —  Green technology is a hot commodity these days, but where can the small business owner go to find solutions that make sense? Here are the top 10 online resources for midmarket companies looking to go green. At this point, you may be ready to go out and uproot a tree with your ba...

http://www.devx.com —  Use the advanced CSS features of JavaScript and jQuery to create web applications that behave and look like desktop applications, fueled by drag-and-drop, mouse selection, panning, zooming, and more. Modern browsers have greatly improved their performances, development tools, an...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That's why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to ma...

http://www.infoworld.com —  We all knew it was coming, but now it feels real. With its debut to select developers in November, Windows 7 is no longer just a label but a real OS. And the public beta is expected this spring. Those expecting a radical redo of Windows will be disappointed; Microsoft CEO Steve ...

http://news.cnet.com —  Look beyond the tumultuous economic storm and you'll see something else forming--cloud computing, a term and concept that took off in 2008. "If you look at Google Trends, 'cloud computing' came out of nowhere in 2008. People were searching for it in the third quarter of 2007, bu...

http://www.hostsearch.com —  What's in store for the web hosting industry in 2009? It's difficult to say - although Derek Vaughan's recent HostSearch article gives us some insights. We do know that 2008 was the year that was, and it was a year that independent research firm Tier1 launched a 62-page research ...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  The start of a new year is often a time of reflection on the past year, both personally and professionally, as well as a time to look forward to the year ahead. With that in mind, we thought it would be interesting to do a New Year's group interview with a number of top designers...

http://www.infoworld.com —  The outlook for IT jobs in 2009 may not be as bad as some observers suggest. While some indicators and surveys are showing some declines in tech jobs, none predict a precipitous drop. In fact, a federal economic stimulus package may even add IT positions. "IT jobs are relatively...

http://blogs.msdn.com —  Exactly a year ago (plus one day...but who's counting?!), I posted a sample WPF application that simulates falling snow. Since Silverlight 2 was released since then, below you will find a Silverlight version of a similar falling snow effect.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com —  We are definitely not Santa Claus, but we love to release high-quality sets and themes for free. And, of course, we do have some beautiful and unusual and (hopefully) useful presents for the upcoming New Year's Eve. Today we are glad to release three icon sets, one Photoshop brus...

http://www.infoworld.com —  We suppose it happens in families too, where one twin seems charmed from the start while the other lives under a shadow. Certainly that's the case with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the one almost universally heralded and the other widely snubbed. Still, isn't it odd? Ho...

http://scobleizer.com —  I remember the good old days of 1994. Back when your only choice of developing a web site was doing it by hand. Remember typing HTML codes like <b> and <table> and making it all work? Or, if you didn't know what those meant, you had to pay some developer $100+ an hour...