Derek Slater

The proliferation of non-technical CIOs is making it harder for IT to communicate the security risks says James McGovern of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

Feeling insecure about your organization's information security? In this case, perception may be everything. Last fall, an information security survey conducted by...

And you thought you were actually interviewing for a job

Contrary to all the doomsday prophesies, the dreaded "year 2000 problem" is the best thing that ever...

One: Most everybody knows that supply chains are ripe for transformation and are a critical strategic area...

Confused about middleware? Welcome to the very large club. It's a term that expands and contracts in meaning over time and is used differently by a zillion different people with as many different agendas. Unfortunately, discussions of middleware--even allegedly rudimentary ones--often start simply but spiral quickly into asynchronous queuing, object monitors and variations of the acronym COM. Here we endeavour to explain it all from the ground up. WHAT IS MIDDLEWARE?

Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is famous for innumerable IT inventions, including the first GUI. We recently caught up with Mark Weiser, chief technologist at PARC, to see what's cooking at the lab and how the new technologies he's working on might find their way into the business world. Weiser's catch phrases for the future include "ubiquitous computing" and "smart matter".

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is now comfortably on the backlash side of the hype cycle. Various studies...