Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of tarballs, I will fear no virus; for my distro is with me; its root and source code shall comfort me...

You already know how important it is to archive business email in case you need it later for reference, audits, or litigation, but storing all those archived bits and bytes is a real headache....

One of the most time-consuming (and boring) after-effects of attending an industry conference is the deluge of business cards you bring home. Despite your best intentions to cull them and put...

The folks over at Gmail have been busy rolling out all sorts of new features in the last few months but the one they dropped on users today is by far my favorite -- Undo Send...

Heh. Thanks! :-)

Ordinarily I tend to agree with many of the things PCWorld's John C. Dvorak has to say, but a column he wrote this week (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343209,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584)...

There's an interesting article over at PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161270/social_networks_risks_for_business_security.html) this week suggesting that social networking Web...

I was one of the lucky ones who was able to get in on the phone management service Grand Central (http://www.grandcentral.com/) when it was still in beta. Google announced...

When things go wrong in the server room or the network operations center (NOC), employees are usually eager to point the finger somewhere else before it can be pointed at them. While absolving...

As geeks everywhere engage in endless battles over which operating system is best, Likewise Software (http://www.likewise.com/index.php) has come along with an idea I can really get behind. The...

According to recent research from InStat, smartphone users typically download five software applications at a time. Reports from market research firm Net Applications indicate 66% of those who access...

Skype (http://skype.com/welcomeback/) is an excellent VoIP phone service for telecommuters or company employees who travel a lot. You can make and receive calls from your computer for free, and get a...

Everyone is talking about how open source technology is the answer to budget cuts and belt tightening in the workplace. There's no denying its use is on the rise and, in fact, the Linux server market...

@ phat CEO -- Thanks for your comment and for taking time to break down the figures. The larger point I was trying to make is that I think Hurd should be commended for trying to find alternate routes...

You can tell a lot about a company by the way they treat the employees lowest on its pay scale. Pay cuts and, yes, even layoffs are inevitable in today's economic climate. The decisions are painful,...

Oh, the poor beleaguered BlackBerry Storm. It just can't catch a break. Mobile phone company Orange delayed its launch in the UK last year because of undisclosed "software issues...

Few things are more cringe-inducing than admitting to your boss that you lost your company-issued laptop. No matter how careful you are about securing your computer, sometimes all it takes is a...

As part of my ongoing quest (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4037.html) to bring you information (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4007.html) on getting -- or keeping -- a job in the tech sector,...

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know I focus a lot on employment -- or lack thereof -- in the tech sector. I'm always on the lookout for ways IT professionals can get...

Unless you were unplugged and on living on a Himalayan mountaintop last week, you no doubt heard about the Great Facebook Flap of 2009. If not, then be sure to read Ron Miller's excellent recap...

As layoffs mount in every industry across the nation, there's no shortage of advice on how to avoid or cope with them. Suggestions range from taking some time off to catch your breath to jumping...

BlackBerry smartphones get love from Google and iPhone gets love from, well, everybody. Most companies that develop mobile apps worry about these two user bases before any other, leaving other mobile...

As President Obama's economic stimulus package winds its way through the politico, people in the tech sector wait with bated breath to find out what it will mean for the IT industry. Of particular...

Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile made an interesting observation on his blog (http://openbookonbi.blogspot.com/) last week about what enterprise information systems need to do in order to appeal to...

As my colleague Davey Winder pointed out earlier today (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3927.html), Google has launched yet another cool tool, Latitude (http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html)....

From angry customers to irate CIOs, service outages are an IT nightmare to be avoided at all costs. It's impossible to prevent them entirely, so post-mortem assessment is critical to understanding...

Early this morning, people using the Google search engine got a strange surprise. Nearly every result for every search was marked with the alert message, "This site may harm your computer." If you...

Yahoo! (http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home) announced this week plans to shut down its free online storage service, Briefcase. Users have until March 30th to find a replacement service before their...

Although Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome browsers get a lot of attention in the media, Apple's Safari browser is not too shabby in comparison. The one thing it unfortunately lacks is robust...

You make some great points, Ron. I think it would be a really interesting idea if this happened.

I guess my overriding thought when I was reading this post was that this idea would never fly from...

When Google launched Gmail's IMAP capabilities last year, it thrust the ubiquitous Web-based mail service into the limelight as a true contender for enterprise use. Even though it's tightly...

If your company has an online presence, it's tempting to dismiss offhand comments from disgruntled customers who claim they plan to smear your name on the Internet. I mean, one negative comment...

Even if your marketing team says you don't need a company blog (though you probably do), consider setting up a Web site status blog for your visitors or customers. A status blog is a basic, no-frills...

In the run-up to Inauguration Day, just about has been everyone speculating on what changes our newly-elected president will bring to the table. Naturally, we talk a lot around DaniWeb about how...

A reader at Slashdot posed an interesting question (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/222229) this week. His (or her?) company has instituted a new scheduling policy known as "9/80." It...

A group of over 30 organizations including the Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, and Symantec collaborated recently on a security project designed to identify the top 25 coding errors...

India-based IT company Satyam (http://www.satyam.com/) is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The...

A new study (http://www.e-janco.com/Salary.htm) by Janco Associates, Inc. is full of gloom-and-doom about the state of employment in the IT industry. A year-long survey of U.S. and Canadian...

"I don't think governments will ever learn that measures like these only make things worse - for every problem they solve by surreptitious means, they create ten more for themselves."

You're so...

Under new a new law adopted in the UK, the British police are now permitted to access data stored on home computers without benefit of a search warrant. Worse yet, officers are allowed to hack into...