Guest author Todd Anglin is EVP Cross Platform Tools Services at Telerik. For HTML5 developers and decision makers, the most important technologies right now are HTML, JavaScript, CSS, mobile platforms and devices and evolving HTML platforms (browsers and operating systems). But what does that mean in the real world? It means these 10 things in 2013:   1. Rise [...]

People lose stuff. It is a fact of modern society. Smartphones, tablets, hats, mittens… children. What if you could tag all the stuff you lose most often with a little tracker and get a ping on your smartphone if it gets too far away from you? Then here comes the Linquet Mini: a small dongle [...]

You would think that after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and last month’s brutal East Coast snow storm, more and more people would start to take disaster preparation seriously. While that may be true for “preppers” taking shelter in the event of an impending apocalypse, it’s not so much the case for small businesses. A survey of [...]

A brand new smartphone is a thing of beauty. It is shiny and responsive, a blank slate that can be filled with apps and widgets and fun. The battery still works, you can hear people on the other end of a phone call and the interface is zippy. But eventually it all goes to hell. [...]

Recent reports of Chinese cyberspying have revealed hacking operations with a shocking scale and level of sophistication. China’s hackers appear to be stealing massive amounts of intellectual property and proprietary information from U.S. companies, including those connected to the nation’s critical infrastructure, such as waterworks, the electrical power grid and oil and gas pipelines. A [...]

What better way to celebrate the week hackers ran rampant than with another security breach? Zendesk, a company that offers IT support tools and customer service software, announced on Thursday that it had been hacked. In a blog post, CEO Mikkel Svane stated, “We’ve become aware that a hacker accessed out system this week,” though he [...]

Frustrated and bitter that laws like SOPA and PIPA have yet to get pushed through Congress without those pesky constituents objecting to turning the U.S. government into muscle for entertainment industry, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is taking out its anger on Google. The music industry lobbying group is accusing the search engine [...]

Microsoft ended the week with a pair of black eyes: a failure to secure a security certificate brought its Azure cloud service tumbling down, and the company also confessed to being the latest corporate victim of a high-profile hacking attempt. The Azure failure also affected Microsoft’s Xbox game, Halo 4, Microsoft confirmed. The highest-profile incident [...]