James Maguire

ALSO SEE: IT Salary Levels, 2004-2009 AND: The 2009 IT Salary Guide For developer salaries, the last five years have brought good news and not so good news. The not so good news is that developer salaries have not trended straight up. There’s been some bouncing around – some job titles haven’t fared spectacularly well, […]

It’s no wonder the iPhone App market is wildly popular among developers and creative folk. Virtually anyone can post an app for sale in the massively trafficked — and potentially lucrative — App Store. Traditional software development requires teams of developers and a big bucks marketing push. iPhone app development takes some mid-level coding skills, […]

ALSO SEE: IT Salary, 2009 Guide The average IT salary is a moving target. Unlike some industries, salary levels in IT bounce around from year to year – sometimes quite unpredictably. Indeed, IT salary levels between 2004 and 2009, based on the following data from Janco Associates, in some cases changed dramatically year over year. […]

ALSO SEE: Top Netbooks Compared: the Eight Best Netbooks (May 2010) Among the top netbooks, which one is the very best? Leave your comment below. Picking the top netbook is a matter of choosing among small differences. After all, most of the bestselling netbooks offer remarkably similar features: the Intel Atom chip, a screen about […]

There’s a lot of buzz about this one. Silicon Valley smells a megabuck start-up fortune in the making. Pulses are quickening and text messages are flying. But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Clouderareally the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be […]

IT managers generally are not a particularly excitable bunch. But offer them a free download of software they truly need and you’ll see mass energy in motion. Such is the case with the Spiceworks IT Desktop, a network monitoring application geared for small and medium-sized businesses. At last count, some 600,000 copies of Spiceworks have […]

Robert, please sit down, we need to talk with you. We’re concerned. Those of us who care about you….We feel it’s time for an intervention. No, please don’t Twitter while we speak with you – that’s exactly what we’re here to talk with you about. We think it’s time to get past the denial, Robert. […]

Will businesses continue to adopt the emerging technology of cloud computing even in economic hard times? To address that, I interviewed David Barley, Chief Technology Officer for Casdex, an online archiving service. Barley is on the front lines of the cloud computing trend. His firm, founded in 2006, is a relatively young cloud computing player. […]

Making a Skype video call is not only free but also remarkably easy. If you’ve got an Internet connection and a Webcam, nothing stands in your way. But be warned: this means the age of video calling has arrived. When a phone call means your caller sees you, it’s now rude to be doing 18 […]

After the heaviest voting in recent years – and some tight contests – readers have selected their choices for the 2009 DatamationProduct of the Year Awards. The winners scored top honors in a broad array of tech categories, from Business Laptop to PC Security, from Enterprise Linux to Office Productivity software. Some categories saw the […]