More Internet Opinion

• 14 January 2013

• Opinion: Gartner Cloud Computing Magic Quadrant Pits AWS Against the World

  Say what you will about Gartner Magic Quadrants, but there's little doubt that IT organizations use them to evaluate technology. The firm's last two analyses of the cloud service provider place Amazon Web Services head and shoulders about the rest. Will other CSPs adapt--or die?

• 12 January 2013

• Opinion: Television ancestors

  If you've watched all the modern TV there is to see, maybe it's time to take a look at some of the shows that inspired your favorite television. This week we look back at some of the shows that inspired the modern TV landscape and some of the programs where your favorite stars and creators got their breaks.

• 11 January 2013

• Opinion: Firefox 19 enters beta with a native PDF viewer and extra ARMv6 support

  "You can't stop progress," as the old saying goes, and that's just as true in the Firefox project as it is elsewhere in life.

• 04 January 2013

• Opinion: Print Friendly for Chrome optimizes Web pages for printing

  To paraphrase Forrest Gump, printing Web pages is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get.

• 19 December 2012

• Opinion: 5 Cloud Computing Trends That Will Be Big in 2013

  Will 2013 finally be the year executives stop worrying about cloud security and actually start looking at their bills from cloud service providers? Columnist Bernard Golden thinks so. He has four other cloud computing predictions for 2013, too.

• 18 December 2012

• Opinion: How to get started with DLNA

  What the heck is DLNA and why you should care about it? I'll keep this simple.

• 14 December 2012

• Opinion: Is Internet Explorer leaking sensitive information?

  Do you use Internet Explorer? If you do, hopefully you've already applied the updates from Patch Tuesday earlier this week. But, even if you did it seems your browser might still be vulnerable to a potentially serious issue.

• 13 December 2012

• Opinion: Forrester Outlines How IT Organizations Will Control the Cloud

  Developers love the cloud because it makes their jobs easier. Rather than fight this trend, and risk obsolescence, Infrastructure and Operations should accept it. A recent Forrester Research report offers five hints for controlling the cloud without stifling developer innovation.

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: Measure once, cut and paste twice

  Microsoft and Apple are at each other's throats over money, so it must be a day that ends in 'y.' Elsewhere, Apple may be inching closer to a TV as one of its partners looks to lay down some acreage in the U.S. and Cupertino's latest product is at least a thirty footer. The remainders for Wednesday, December 12, 2012 are redundant and repetitive.

• 12 December 2012

• Opinion: Remains of the Day: The land of Oz

  Apple's Australian mapping missteps get traced back to a surprising source, the iPhone 5 is the year's best gadget, and Google's head honcho says that Apple and his company's relationship is probably best described as "It's Complicated." Pay no attention to the remainders for Tuesday, December 11, 2012 behind the curtain.

• 07 December 2012

• Opinion: Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting iTunes 11

  iTunes 11 arrived on the final day of November, barely in time to meet Apple's self-imposed November deadline for availability of the update. Actually, Apple had originally announced an October release but delayed the launch due to "engineering issues."

• 06 December 2012

• Opinion: Managing add-ons in Internet Explorer

  With too many add-ons your browser performance can be affected. Change Internet Explorer's settings to prevent pages from loading slowly

• 05 December 2012

• Opinion: How to dedupe your song library now that iTunes won't

  iTunes 11, which arrived last week, brought some big changes with it. And for the last few days I've been helping you work around some of those changes, like restoring the iTunes sidebar and even returning to iTunes 10.

• Opinion: Use Content Advisor to protect your browser

  In Windows 8 you can use the Content Advisor to help you manage what is and isn’t available through your browser

• 04 December 2012

• Opinion: Setting security levels in Internet Explorer

  Use the protection settings in Internet Explorer to help give you a first line of defence when it comes to your security

• 03 December 2012

• Opinion: Archify free service stalks your Web travels to build archives

  Archify is a free Web service that you might want to have stalking you.

• 30 November 2012

• Opinion: Google Chrome leads the browser pack at preventing phishing, study finds

  Phishing attacks are an all-too-common threat on the Internet today, but among the top browsers Google's Chrome does the best job of preventing them.

• Opinion: Why you shouldn't hire a graphic designer on the cheap

  Graphic designers took to Twitter, article comments and email to fight back against an article we published on PC Advisor that claimed to show 'how to hire a graphic-design pro on the cheap'. Here's a snapshot of what they had to say.

• Opinion: Response to 'How to hire a graphic-design pro on the cheap'

  Tom Actman from London based design company, Mat Dolphin, voices his opinion on websites that offer rock bottom prices for graphic-design work.

• 29 November 2012

• Opinion: Amazon Goes All In With Data Warehousing at AWS Conference

  The first day of the first Amazon Web Services user conference, known as re: Invent, focused on the way customers are using services such as S3 and CloudFront. Meanwhile, the company unveiled RedShift, which CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden thinks will disrupt the data warehousing market and challenge IBM, Oracle and Teradata.

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