Startups bloom despite the economy

Fresh from Demo Fall 09, InfoWorld's Bill Snyder picks the startup companies that could change your work life... more

The fight over open source 'leeches'

Open source is supposed to be all about community, but as commercial open source becomes the norm, fewer developers are giving back. Is that hurting open source?... more

The top underreported tech stories of 2008

iPhone 3G, Windows 7, and cloud computing were important, but don't let them overshadow these key stories... more

Datacenter space is getting pricier

No. 1 top underreported story for 2008: Outsourcing your datacenter may get expensive, even in the recession... more

The mobile Web sucks, despite the iPhone

No. 2 top underreported story for 2008: Good developers have a real opportunity to stand out in this emerging medium... more

A vicious price war threatens broadband availability

No. 3 top underreported story for 2008: Wholesalers' race to the bottom may leave us with too few reliable Internet connections... more

Application virtualization is where the client future really is

No. 4 top underreported story for 2008: All the attention's on server virtualization, overshadowing a bigger potential payoff... more

Social networking is starting (really) to make sense for business

No. 5 top underreported story for 2008: Forget the kiddie tools. Social networking is poised to deliver what intranets promised but didn't... more

Power-line-based broadband is back from the dead

No. 6 top underreported story for 2008: Revamped technology brings a new option to broadband, both for smart devices and rural users... more

Women aren't in IT because they don't want to be in tech

No. 7 top underreported story for 2008: New research shows women have more options, so they take them... more

The best, and worst, of Demo Fall 2008

72 companies showed their stuff, with many intriguing options for businesses and consumers. But a few stood out far above the rest... more

Analytics vendors show there's still innovation in BI

Demo Fall 2008: Cloud-based BI, semantic database search, and database acceleration stand out... more

Startups seek new ways to bolster enterprise, Web security

Demo Fall 2008: Established ideas get new twists to protect corporate date, user passwords, and even mobile phones... more

How to start up your own tech startup

Follow the dream using advice from entrepreneurs who've made it work... more

Last call for Windows XP PCs is mid-June

Retailers will stop taking orders for XP-based systems a few weeks before Microsoft's June 30 cutoff... more

InfoWorld's top 10 tech startups for 2008

Innovative technologies and new spins for existing technologies characterize this year's hot tech newbies... more

Perceptive Pixel

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Inside 2008's hottest tech startups

InfoWorld picks 10 newbies whose technologies could make a huge difference to business IT... more

The Industry Standard taps crowd wisdom

The former dot-com-boom publication returns as a Web site for predictive markets -- which many businesses, including HP and Hollywood, have found to be eerily accurate... more

Sun Microsystems is back in the game

2007's No. 2 most underreported tech story... more