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Google and Microsoft's new battleground: Your living room

The upshot will have surprising implications for IT.

Symform Offers Free Peer-to-Peer Storage

Much as large computing projects can make use of your free CPU cycles, Symform leverages your free hard drive space and that of others into a secure, encrypted online storage service. Quite clever actually, and even better--it's free (except, of course, for the electricity and storage space you contribute). You can be a leech and simply use the 10GB of free storage offered, but up to 100GB of online storage is available if you contribute. You can up that to 200GB by referring friends.

Chart and image gallery: 30 free tools for data visualization and analysis

Compare tools for functionality, skill level and more.

David D. Clark

Meet David D. Clark, who has been involved in the development of the Internet since the 1970s. He talks here about the Internet, its potential and problems, and its future. Insider (registration required)

5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them

Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.

Tangled web: Facebook, SEO, and black-hat tactics colliding (still)

A few decades ago, some genius had this outrageous idea: "Let's put everything online." Everything. Measureless reams of information all piled up on the World Wide Web. The audacity of this concept should not go unappreciated.

Essential browser tools for Web developers

What are the most useful browser add-ons for Web designers and developers? We ask more than 20 professionals to weigh in.

Change Your Facebook Profile Photo

I've made no secret of my distaste for Facebook's interface, which is equal parts messy, confusing, and outright maddening.

Hands on: Firefox 11 improves syncing

Mozilla's Firefox 11 browser features some useful tweaks, especially in its syncing abilities, but no major changes.

Blogging service shootout: Blogger vs. WordPress

We pit Google's Blogger against WordPress to see which service is easier, more feature-filled and better for users who need a simple hosted blog.

Securing Facebook: With a little help from his 800 million friends

The eyes of the online world are on Joe Sullivan.

Free and Affordable Software to Sync Your Work and Your Life

If you're like plenty of people these days, you have more than just one computer--and I don't mean just a traditional desktop or laptop PC, but also a smartphone or a tablet. A smartphone is little more than a computer wrapped around a cell phone; and a tablet, of course, is merely a computer in a convenient portable package.

HTML5 client-side storage tutorial: Beyond cookies

This excerpt from the HTML5 Developer's Cookbook takes you step by step through using HTML5's new browser-based storage.

Five Reasons to Host Your Own Email

Email is still an important means of communication in business. In recent years, an increasing number of businesses are outsourcing their email to web-based services like Google Apps for Business. In a tight economic time, the money saved by moving to the cloud can be hard to ignore. There are trade-offs though. Today, for instance, iCloud email users in Germany found that push-email features were disabled due to a patent lawsuit by Motorola. Here are five things to keep in mind when considering outsourcing your businesses email.

First look: OnLive Desktop Plus

A new app for the streaming game service adds some enhancements -- but unlike its predecessor, it isn't free.

10 questions for Snap Interactive CFO Jon Pedersen Sr.

Name: Jon Pedersen Sr.

EPIC accuses Google of not being forthright in report to feds

Google -- the Internet search leader and purveyor of social networking, a smartphone operating system, email, maps and other applications -- is being accused of being evasive about how it protects the personal information of its multitude of users.

Flash lives, thanks to Facebook and games

Like a super-powered zombie, Flash just won't stay down. Even though it doesn't run on most mobile devices, Flash is still encountered every day while browsing the Web.

The timeline's time has come

Facebook's Timeline feature will soon be imposed on all the social network's users. Columnist Mike Elgan expects to see an increased use of timeline-like interfaces in all kinds of applications because they work the way people think -- and people like them.

Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review

MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling