Stupid user tricks 6: IT idiocy loves company

You'd think we'd run out of them, but technology simply hasn't advanced enough to take boneheaded users out of the daily equation that is the IT admin's life.

By InfoWorld staff | 24 January, 2012 01:38

Tags: Misadventures, it management, Information Technology Careers, careers, american express

Life in IT: Tech ideals meet user reality

Tips on implementing the latest in technology, how-tos for finding employment or contentment in a current job, analyses of "what's on the horizon" -- it's one thing to keep up with all the information out there. It's quite another to put it all into practice.

By InfoWorld staff | 29 December, 2011 03:10

Tags: your IT tales, twitter, IT training, it management, IT jobs, Information Technology Careers, anonymous

AT&T cancels plans to buy T-Mobile

AT&T today ended its battle to buy T-Mobile USA, the No. 4 U.S. carrier from parent company Deutsche Telekom. In doing so, it will pay T-Mobile a $4 billion breakup fee. Earlier this fall, both the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice said they would fight the sale, with the FCC saying it was not in consumers' interest. Had the deal gone through, AT&T would have become the No. 1 U.S. cellular carrier, leaping ahead of Verizon Wireless, which it trails slightly in terms of customers.

By InfoWorld staff | 20 December, 2011 10:43

Tags: T-Mobile USA, mergers and acquisitions, business issues, at&t

Introducing Windows Server 8: The InfoWorld special report

Hailed as one of Microsoft's broadest, deepest releases, Windows Server 8 will replace the current version of the OS, Windows Server 2008, in 2012 about the same time the new companion desktop OS, Windows 8, is released. Microsoft has a broad set of goals to reach with this release, such as cloud compatibility and automation of routine tasks across multiple machines. The new release also benefits from Microsoft's work building out its own Azure cloud service. Many technologies developed for the server were tested in the cloud, and many technologies developed for Azure were then imported back to the server.

By InfoWorld staff | 15 December, 2011 02:15

Tags: windows server, Windows 8, Windows, Virtualization, virtual desktop, systems management, system management, software, server virtualization, operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft, hardware systems, freemium, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, applications

Macs in your business: InfoWorld's expert management guide

Macs may be a minority of PCs in any business, but these days they are used by most businesses. And as more companies roll out "choose your own PC" and "bring your own PC" policies, IT will only need to be more familiar with managing Mac OS X systems.

By InfoWorld staff | 29 November, 2011 02:05

Tags: software, servers, operating systems, Mac Tools, Mac software, Mac OS X, mac laptop, Mac Desktop, it management, Information Technology Careers, hardware systems, freemium, consumerization of IT, Computer Hardware, applications, Apple

InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

Everyone is a trend watcher. But at a certain point, to determine which trends will actually weave their way into the fabric of business computing, you need to first take a hard look at the technologies that gave life to the latest buzz phrases.

By InfoWorld staff | 21 November, 2011 22:10

Tags: Virtualization, virtual desktop, storage, solid state drives, software, server virtualization, servers, security, open source software, Network management, networking, network convergence, mobile technology, Microsoft Windows, management, internet, identity management, html5, hardware systems, data management, Data Explosion, Data Center, consumerization of IT, Configuration / maintenance, Computer Memory, Computer Hardware, cloud computing, business intelligence, Big Data, applications, application development, Access control and authentication

The 2011 InfoWorld geek IQ test

We're back again for our annual survey of your certifiable geek cred, so dust off your pocket protector, suck face with your closest Ewok doll, and dig into your Bag of Holding to bring forth the answers to our nerdiest set of 20 questions yet. Answer enough correctly, and you may don the geek sherpa guru label, to guide the unwashed to geek heaven. Answer too many wrong, and find your inner geek flatlining.

By InfoWorld staff | 15 November, 2011 05:56

Tags: software, networking, Misadventures, it management, internet, Information Technology Careers, hardware systems, entertainment, Components, Business Management, business issues

Windows 8: The InfoWorld Deep Dive report

It's not the Windows you know and love. Microsoft has revealed a "reimagined" Windows -- code-named Windows 8 -- that boasts a very different, tile-centric user interface called Metro taken from Windows Phone that is touch-savvy, runs on ARM processors as well as Intel x86 chips, takes fewer system resources so it can run on a wider variety of hardware platforms, and works on both tablets and traditional keyboard-and-mouse PCs. It's not mobile versus desktop, it's mobile and desktop together.

By InfoWorld staff | 01 November, 2011 01:57

Tags: Windows security, Windows 8, Windows, tablets, software, security, operating systems, mobile technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft, laptops, it management, Intel, Information Technology Careers, hardware systems, freemium, desktop pcs, Desktop computers, Computer Hardware, application development

Adobe adds mobile, marketing to its CQ5 CMS

Adobe today is announcing version 5.4 of its Adobe WEM (Web Experience Management) suite of content and campaign management tools. Based on the CQ5 content management system acquired from Day last year, Adobe WEM adds a capability to automatically reformat Web pages using Adobe's Device Central technology when displayed on various mobile devices and to handle marketing campaign management across websites, social networking, and other customer conduits. The suite also integrates the user traffic and engagement tracking from Omniture SiteCatalyst, the Web tracking suite that Adobe also bought last year.

By InfoWorld staff | 22 February, 2011 22:10

Tags: web applications, software, Mobilize, Internet-based applications and services, internet, content management, applications, Adobe Systems

Free version of BES now available for Notes

Research in Motion today released a free version of its BlackBerry Express Server (BES) for IBM Domino servers, which run Lotus Notes. The Express version allows an unlimited number of users but has a subset of the mobile management tool's policies: 75 out of the full version's more than 500 policies.

By InfoWorld staff | 06 November, 2010 02:39

Tags: Telecommunication, Mobilize, Mobile device management, mobile, Microsoft, IBM, Blackberry

Smartphone online usage climbing rapidly, with iPhone in the lead

The iPhone leads the pack when it comes to using the Web over mobile devices, according to a new study released today by Informa Telecoms & Media.

By InfoWorld staff | 03 November, 2010 02:27

Tags: Telecommunication, smartphones, Platforms, Phones, networking, Mobilize, mobile services, mobile, iPhone, internet, Google Android, consumer electronics, Apple

REMEMBER THIS? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. Our memorial slideshow gives this former titan its due.

By InfoWorld staff | 28 January, 2010 11:32

Tags: Sun Microsystems, Oracle-Sun merger, oracle, mysql, Jonathan Schwartz

21 apps Apple doesn't want on your iPhone

Apple doesn't want you to use them, but the following 21 apps today run only on jailbroken iPhones.

By InfoWorld staff | 05 January, 2010 11:26

Tags: jailbreaking, iphone apps, iPhone, Apple

Top 10 emerging enterprise technologies

We all know what buzz is: It's noise. At InfoWorld, one of its self-appointed tasks is to extract the signal from that noise, to separate the stuff valuable to IT professionals from that which is popularly considered a big deal.

By InfoWorld staff | 17 November, 2009 06:15

Tags: mapreduce, I/O virtualization, desktop virtualization, de-duplication

InfoWorld confirms critical Windows 7 bug

InfoWorld's tests of the final Windows 7 version - the release to manufacturing, or RTM - confirms a massive memory leak that occurs when the chkdsk.exe utility is run. Chkdsk.exe scans the PC's hard drives looking for errors in the files and file structures. The memory leak, which can cause the PC to stop operating, occurs when chkdsk.exe is run on secondary disks, as opposed to the disk Windows is installed on.