Applications

Thu, March 24, 2011 - Sometimes it feels like this is Angry Birds' world, and the rest of us are just living in it.

Wed, January 12, 2011 - InfoWorld's 2011 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best products at the forefront of today's top data center, desktop, mobile, and programming trends

Mon, December 13, 2010 - In its first public version, the forthcoming cloud-based alternative to Windows and Mac OS X is too limited by -- ironically -- the cloud

Fri, December 03, 2010 - You back up data on your computer in case it crashes, and you might install LoJack on your car to help recover it in case someone steals it--so why shouldn't you protect your Android phone? Most people carry a lot of sensitive data on their phones. If someone steals your handset or if you happen to lose it, all that personal information is suddenly not so personal anymore. Your phone is an investment, so you should safeguard your contacts, photos, texts, videos, and music.

Tue, October 19, 2010 - These oddly useful alternative browsers offer such advantages as 3-D searching, social networking, easy scriptability, and powerful page manipulation.

Mon, October 11, 2010 - Between disaster recovery, compliance with legislative requirements and the need to meet e-discovery demands, enterprises should have some level of email archiving in place. In addition, companies may need to archive other files, including Office documents, SharePoint, instant messaging, blogs and other social media.

Mon, October 04, 2010 - These free and open source applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops put power into the hands of users without taking from their wallets.

Mon, September 27, 2010 - Since the release of IE9 beta on Sept. 15, we've been playing with the 32-bit Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows 7 versions -- doing nothing technically fancy with them, like benchmarking, but just using them in our everyday Web surfing routine.

Mon, September 27, 2010 - Big Media needs to change its thinking; Mark Gibbs has a program for them.

Wed, September 08, 2010 - As it has in previous years, Apple has quickly followed up a major iOS release with a point-one release that promises not only to fix outstanding bugs, but also to bring new and wondrous features to the company's mobile operating system. And this time around, those enhancements are hardly inconsequential: among other things they include a brand new social network (Apple's second to debut in the last week), slick new camera functionality, and a handful of smaller tweaks that you might not have noticed.