What is Quick Base? A low-code database platform for citizen developers
Filling the gap between shared spreadsheets and IT-oriented development tools, Quick Base aims to let business users quickly create their own applications.
Stories by Jake Widman
Need a ride? 3 ridesharing and 2 taxi apps considered
The time to pick a ridesharing app for your phone isn't when it's dark and cold, there aren't any cabs to be had and you realize you'd really like a ride home. The time to download one is well before you need it.
In Pictures: 8 technologies that are on the way out - and one that we'll never be rid of
In the blink of an eye, a technology that's on top today can be made obsolete by the next big thing. Six futurists predict which of today's common technologies are headed for the scrap heap, and what will replace them.
5 mini projectors: A show wherever you go
Have a presentation or a favorite video hiding in your smartphone? One of these five mobile projectors will let you show off.
In Pictures: Tech for geeks and students
Here's a bunch of goodies that will prove useful to students, self-respecting geeks and anybody who loves a good gadget.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011: Clunky to cool
When I reviewed Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, I said the then-new version of the suite was "kind of like getting a new Chevy." In other words, it was a solid upgrade, but nothing to really get excited about.
Facebook's privacy options
Facebook users -- and their managers -- who are concerned about keeping control of their information should get themselves over to the social network's Privacy Settings page without delay.
How Facebook mucks up office life
Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, along with your spouse, your college drinking buddies, your Senior Prom date, and, off in a corner, your adolescent son, busy telling your boss how many hours he logs in every day playing Grand Theft Auto.
Boss by day, gamer by night: IT leaders' favorite games
Do video games stimulate the intellect? Are gamers more social and better equipped to make decisions than nongamers?
Extreme IT: Hurricanes, high winds and heavy seas
When Lance Gibson talks about a storm knocking out his systems, he doesn't mean the infamous worm. He might be referring to the latest hurricane to sweep through the Gulf of Mexico or to the lightning accompanying a vicious thunderstorm.
IT's biggest project failures & what they teach us
Every year, the Improbable Research organization hands out Ig Nobel prizes to research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
Extreme IT: Battling dust, heat and bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq
Lots of people like to describe their jobs as "being on the front lines," but there are IT professionals whose jobs really do put them on the front lines of a combat zone. You think your work life's stressful? Try getting a network restored after it's been brought down by a mortar attack - in 110-degree heat.
A new kind of Web - don't miss these 11 sites
Call them Web 2.0 sites or mashups - or come up with your own trendy term. Whatever you call them, there are sites popping up all over the Web that process information in new ways rather than just present it.
Big IT to small biz: Listen up, little dudes!
It's one of the great truths of capitalism: Businesses want to grow. Small businesses want to become midsize businesses, and midsize ones want to get big.
Review: Microsoft Office for Mac -- better than iWork?
It has been almost four years since the last revision of Microsoft Office for the Mac, and Macintosh users can be forgiven for getting a little impatient. We heard all the buzz about the radical interface makeover for Office 2007 for Windows, and we wondered what user-interface goodies might be waiting for us.