It’s not a question of “if” but “when.” In the past, corporate information security meant firewalls, strong passwords, virus protection, operating system updates, and physical security. While all of these techniques are still important, in an age of massively interconne...

On Tuesday Apple’s Phil Schiller (stepping into the role normally occupied by Steve Jobs) presented the Macworld 2009 keynote in San Francisco. This was notable because it represents Apple’s final appearance at the venerable annual conference of all things Apple, and because it was a bit...

You have probably seen the cool videos for Microsoft Surface, the amazing multi-touch tabletop that promises to revolutionize ordering food, buying cell phones, organizing photos, or playing games. But what if you want a Surface but you don’t have thousands of dollars to buy one or a large sof...

So you consider yourself a Facebook fanatic, a MySpace master, a lover of LinkedIn, a terror with Twitter, a dedicated Digg and Del.icio.us diva… Okay, I’ll stop with the alliteration. How many different social networking accounts do you have? If you’re anything like me, you’ve signed up for...

Nearly lost amid the excitement surrounding the new iPhone 3G, Apple introduced a new service at their World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) called MobileMe. Many initially proclaimed it nothing more than a warmed-over version of Apple’s venerable—but not terribly popular—.Mac service. Howeve...

What do you think of when you hear the words �Java applet?� For most, this brings to mind slow, buggy, useless little applications that run in the Web browser. They are the quintessential Web 1.0 way to add interactive features to a Web page, and they largely failed to catch on. Newer, faster te...

You may recall the halcyon days of the late ‘90s: Amazon was just a book store, Google wasn’t the top search engine, and Internet Explorer was an upstart Web browser challenging the domination of Netscape Navigator. In those days, the top browsers competed by adding non-standard features...

Last week Microsoft released a beta test version of their next generation Web browser, Internet Explorer 8. This new update offers one thing that will make Web developers cheer: considerably better standards compliance than previous versions. However, it has already generated considerable controvers...

Joining the seemingly never-ending stream of free Google tools for Web developers, allow me to present the Google Chart API: The amazing thing about Google Charts is not that it’s free (there are other free charting options) and not that it allows anyone to add slick-looking charts on their We...