House bill would prevent patchwork of state laws banning smartphone encryption
Four bipartisan members of Congress introduced legislation this week to preempt a potential patchwork of state and local government laws…
Encryption boost from U.S. House bill: Stop States’ smartphone stupidity
Amazingly, some Hill dwellers are pro-encryption, and are starting to fight for citizens’ privacy rights. The first step seems to…
Now That I Beat The Witness, I See What’s Wrong With It
I spent a long time wondering why The Witness took place on an island at all. The post Now That…
Mobile apps get the crowdsourcing treatment
When developing mobile enterprise applications, there are two basic options: Plan the process in advance in exquisite detail or listen…
Microsoft skills: What's hot and what's not?
It’s a good time to be in IT. Job seekers have the advantage as employers struggle to hire tech talent…
Sony launches a new Marshmallow beta program, as stable release nears
Sony was one of the first Android manufacturers to detail their Marshmallow update plans and the first to launch a…
Facebook’s master plan: attention-grabbing new video ads with captions
It’s no secret that Facebook makes truck loads of money from its video advertising. Truck loads upon trucks loads, actually:…
Stock-market jitters have rocked network spending, Cisco says
The world’s financial markets got off to such a rough start this year that some enterprises froze plans to upgrade…
8 more cool tools for success in DevOps
8 more cool tools for devops success Image by iStockphoto DevOps has been gaining steam at organizations of all stripes…
The second complaint was going to be 'no music'
Network admin pilot fish walks into the office one morning and is immediately accosted by a user who can’t get…