How-To How to Take Your Company Mobile Today As mobile phone penetration continues to surge, the years-old hype about the mobile Web being the next big thing is no doubt coming true. But despite all of the industry gurus, conference keynotes and trade magazine articles imploring you to get your business ready for the mobile space, it's not always easy to know where to begin. Sure, you… John Paul Titlow View comments
Features Announcing ReadWriteBiz, Our New Channel on Small-Medium Business We're pleased to announce the launch of our fourth channel: ReadWriteBiz. This new subsite will be a resource and guide for small to medium businesses, so it's targeted to an audience somewhere in between our ReadWriteStart channel (startups) and ReadWriteEnterprise (large companies). ReadWriteBiz is sponsored by Yola.com, a website builder and… Richard MacManus View comments
NYT Study: Open-Source Making Significant Traction in the Enterprise Open-source software is at an inflection point in the enterprise. According to a survey by Accenture, more than two-thirds of organizations anticipate increasing their investment in it this year, and almost 40% said that they expect to migrate mission-critical software to open source within the next 12 months. The survey reflects a pattern… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
NYT Twitter Security Hole Found, Being Fixed, Company Says Beware, all you out there in the Twitterverse - it looks like a new vulnerability has hit the troubled microblogging site and this time it has nothing to do with a man howling "Goooooaaaaaaaal!" or a vuvuzela. Information security blog Praetorian Prefect has dug deep into what looks like a new persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Announcements Puppet Labs, Adobe Release Open Source Puppet Code for Managing Hadoop Puppet Labs, the commercial sponsor of the open source server configuration framework Puppet, announced today that Adobe has agreed to publish their Puppet modules for managing Hadoop. The code will be freely available for download via the Puppet Forge. Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management framework that… Audrey Watters View comments