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The true root causes of software security failures
Developers being overly trusting is one of them.

Bart Perkins: Avoiding IT audit nightmares
IT's problems can draw unwanted notice now that Sarbanes-Oxley requires them to appear in 10-K reports as 'material weaknesses.'

Paul Glen: The secret to keeping processes vital
As long as a problem seems present, gnarly and intractable, we enjoy following the process that solves it. But once the problem has been solved, it's not so interesting to us anymore.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Google Glass will be a big deal, so deal with it
Some people are having fits about Google Glass. True, it will change how we think about privacy in public places, but such rethinking started years ago.

Google Now, Hangouts feel here, there and everywhere
Google this week unleashed a blizzard of updates and improvements that fundamentally change -- and radically improve -- how we get information and communicate.

Lifelogging gets real
As privacy-invading technologies and location-aware applications become commonplace and accepted (and they will), and more products like Saga, Memoto and Glass become pervasive, the idea of lifelogging will become more appealing.

Scot Finnie: A call for mobile innovation
A lot more innovation is desperately needed for mobile hardware design and platforms. Are Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft up to the task?

Preston Gralla: Microsoft's smartwatch: Been there, didn't do that
Vendors are falling all over themselves to develop smartwatches. Will this be yet one more example of Microsoft getting to a market first and then failing to cash in?
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Daily out-takes from the Theater of the Absurd, IT-style, where the nasty meets the rumor, and the kernel of truth wins out. Real life IT in action. You'll laugh...but try not to cry at your desk.