ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier

Small, inexpensive, power-efficient new chips from Intel and ARM are enabling the new wave of mobile devices -- and setting the two companies on a collision course... more

Office suites in the cloud: Microsoft Office Web Apps versus Google Docs and Zoho

Microsoft's fledgling Web-based productivity apps have one key advantage over SaaS rivals: amazing fidelity to the desktop-bound Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document formats... more

First glimpse: Microsoft Office Web Apps

Microsoft's Technical Preview of Web-based editions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint shows that Google is in for a fight... more

Programming IQ test: Round 2

Acing last year's quiz was nothing. Only true hacker heroes will survive Round 2... more

Office 2010 looks solid and smooth

Microsoft's technical preview packs a streamlined look and feel, co-authoring and collaboration hooks, and numerous refinements, with the promise of Office Web apps to come... more

The shape of the coming netbook revolution

Tomorrow's portables won't just be smaller, lighter, and cheaper; they could also carve out a whole new niche in computing... more

First look: Ubuntu 9.04 stays the course

The new edition of the friendly Linux desktop OS is more maintenance release than upgrade... more

Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance

After 18 years, Linux is still struggling to gain a foothold on the business desktop. Could it be too late?... more

Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed?

A single version might make it easier for businesses to adopt Linux, but several factors may prevent that unification... more

Test your Web IQ

Think you know all there is to know about the World Wide Web? Take our quiz to find out... more

Web IQ test

Think you know all there is to know about the World Wide Web? Take our quiz to find out... more

The 25 greatest blunders in tech history

Looking back, they may seem like obvious mistakes. But at the time, at least some were considered great calls... more

Will Google and Microsoft own the Web?

The Web browser has become "hostile territory" and that might signal the end of an open Web ... more

Test your Linux IQ

How much do you really know about the free OS?... more

Linux admin IQ test

How much do you really know about the free OS?... more

20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Fall prey to any one of these common IT blunders and watch your company's prospects suffer -- not to mention your own... more

Product review: Netbooks for business

Pint-sized, ultralight, and ultra-affordable, a new class of portables woos the mobile professional. We put an Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-Note to the test... more

Exploit reveals the darker side of automatic updates

A new exploit called Evilgrade can take advantage of automatic updaters to install malicious code on unsuspecting systems... more

Programming IQ test: Round 1

Are you a script kiddie or a hacker hero? Take our quiz to find out... more

Test Your Developer IQ

Are you a script kiddie or a hacker hero? Take our quiz to find out... more