Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk


By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






Cloud Computing’s Paradox: More IT, But Less IT Management


Wither the information technology department?  There’s been no end to speculation as of late, as employees bring their own devices to work, marketing chiefs grab more technology budget dollars, and...
    






Nintendo’s Imagined Success Is More Dangerous Than Their Current Failure


There’s big news today that Nintendo has drastically revised their fiscal year forecast of Wii U sales, cutting the prediction from 9 million to 2.8 million,  just a few months before the goal was...
    






App Tracker uTest Raises $43M From Goldman Sachs For Future Acquisitions And IPO


A startup known for its mobile application testing, uTest, has more than doubled its funding to date as it pursues acquisitions and an eventual IPO, raising $43 million in a late-stage Series E round...
    






Jacqueline Bisset Acts Weirdly at the Golden Globes 2014


Jacqueline Bisset acted quite erratically upon getting a Golden Globe award. She received the award for the part she played in Dancing on the Edge. Firstly, she took almost an hour to get to the...
    






Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 dual-booting tablet


Famous gadget maker Fujitsu has recently joined the dual booting race with their new device, Q704 tablet, but that is not in the way you are expecting. Instead of a device of Android/Windows dual...
    






Hubris: A Startup’s Worst Mistake


The following guest post is by Frederic Kerrest, co-founder and COO of Okta. Many startups experienced successful exits in 2013. Others crumbled to the ground. A common cause for those failures?...
    






The Consumer Electronics Show’s Lessons On The Separation Of State And Technology


While most of the country endured the polar vortex this week, the annual tech vortex known 2014 Consumer Electronics Show took over Las Vegas. I took a pre-Show tour of the International CES floor...
    






7 Productivity Hacks That Successful People Use Every Day


If you feel like you’re consistently finding there’s more ‘work’ than there is ‘day’, you’re not alone. Too many of us get caught up in putting out fires, wasting time on tasks that don’t really...