The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously. The open-source file synchronization and sharing project announced the Milestone…

You can do a lot more with Twitter than the official Web, mobile and desktop clients allow. To do it, though, you'll need to access…

The idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk is pretty simple - break programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a…

HP's Itanium debacle provides plenty of lessons for anyone who is willing to pay attention. For the past decade, HP has been making a…

Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but…

Looking to tap Amazon S3 storage for your WordPress blog? The WP2Cloud plugin lets you store all your WordPress data - not just media…

The cloud database market continues to solidify as Google puts a price tag on its Cloud SQL offering. With actual charges to begin on June…

Infographics are still a thing with a lot of companies, if my inbox is any indication. Easel.ly, a service that recently debuted in beta, is…

Google has long provided an API for automating Google Analytics, but it required developers to jump through a few more hoops than many would…

As Windows 8 approaches, Mozilla developers have been working hard on a Metro version. If you're using Windows 8 on the desktop, no problem…

Microsoft's Azure just got a little more competition from Amazon. The cloud giant announced yesterday that it was adding support for SQL…

Data transfer speeds have been getting faster and faster, but that doesn't mean that we're actually reaping the full benefits. A few years…

Having data available electronically is not the same thing as the data being useful. Campaign finance disclosures provided electronically by…

If you've wondered why so many companies are eager to control data storage, the answer can be summed up in a simple term: data gravity…

IDC says that spending for cloud storage will triple by 2015. It had better, because the roster of companies with their hands out for some…

That Apple remains in first place in the tablet market comes as no surprise. IDC's latest research shows that in the first quarter of…

We've already established that members of Congress are pretty bad at informing the public via their websites. The good news is that you…

It's hard to pay attention to the business of journalism without hearing about data journalism or data-driven journalism. But despite all…

Last month, Netcraft recorded nearly 677 million websites in its April Web Server Survey. May is a different story, though. This time…

Google is moving the goalpost significantly in the market for big data tools, at least for organizations that can work with its canned tools…

Like it or not, another U.S. election season is upon us. Among other things, that means that people will be spending more time visiting…

So much for Barnes & Noble's standing up to Microsoft's "anticompetitive scheme" against Android. One year after their nasty patent spat…

Amazon is helping to bring the mythical "paperless office" a bit closer, if only by a tiny fraction. The new Send to Kindle for Mac app lets…

Apache has dished out another serving of Cassandra, the open source NoSQL database popular for handling big data. The improvements speak…