Leon Erlanger
Silicon Valley's road to recovery
The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index points to a good year ahead for technology entrepreneurs
Email users still running amok despite years of warnings
A survey shows that email remains a major source of corporate data leakage, as users continue to break the rules
The next step in data security: Toshiba drives wipe themselves
Self-encrypting drives can detect when they are connected to the wrong host and automatically erase sensitive data
IT workers would take a 10 percent pay cut to telecommute
IT workers would sacrifice a tenth of their salaries just to work at home, yet few IT job postings offer telecommuting as an option
This is your power plant on Windows
What does your PC and the systems managing critical infrastructure have in common? Microsoft Windows, and all its security concerns
Big Data runs afoul of big lawyers
Big Data can be harnessed for a lot less than you think -- just don't get anyone with expensive lawyers angry
A faster, more reliable Internet, coming to a school or library near you
Once limited to select institutions, Internet2 and its massive bandwidth are about to hit community sites across the country
Now playing: The sounds of data streams
Information overload never sounded so sweet, thanks to a new technology that turns data stream fluctuations into musical notes
How not to handle a data breach
Press the panic button as soon as you find evidence customer data has been compromised, and you'll pay the price
Is the megascale of the cloud a good thing?
Google's recent Gmail outage reveals the dark side of cloud computing's economies of scale -- and the resilience of tape
Gmail lesson: Don't use stats to minimize angry users
Google kept its users pretty well informed during the latest outage -- but please, guys, don't try to hide behind percentages