In Pictures: 8 cutting-edge technologies aimed at eliminating passwords
From electronic pills to digital tattoos, these eight innovations aim to secure systems and identities without us having to remember a password ever again
Stories by Serdar Yegulalp
In Pictures: Beyond Firefox - 10 Mozilla projects fuelling the open Web
Mozilla has its hands in many projects aimed at advancing the Web. Here's our take on the 10 most promising
In Pictures: Biggest, baddest, boldest software backdoors of all time
These 12 historically insidious backdoors will have you wondering what’s in your software -- and who can control it
Review: Box beats Dropbox - and all the rest - for business
Box trumps Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix ShareFile, EMC Syncplicity, and OwnCloud with rich mix of file sync, file sharing, user management, deep reporting, and enterprise integration
The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere
Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project.
Google's next act: Diversify and conquer
Center stage at this year's Google I/O was a company honing its vision for a future beyond search
In Pictures: 16 matchbox PCs - small but powerful
These tiny systems, ranging from bare-bones boards to full-blown, ready-to-run PCs, are ideal for hackers and hobbyists who want to create their own powerful machines.
Google's next act: Diversify and conquer
Center stage at this year's Google I/O was a company honing its vision for a future beyond search
How Microsoft will change forever and thrive again
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that's an eternity.
Netbooks vs iPads - can they coexist?
The term "disruptive", a common buzzword in tech journalism, is typically used to describe something that jars people out of existing ways of doing things, and provides them with both new ways to do the old things and new things to do. Weather-beaten as the expression might be, it fits when talking about two products that took personal computing by storm over the past couple of years: the iPad and the netbook.
Online, under-the-radar malware hazards
There is the danger you know and then there is the danger you don't know.