If you build a house without a framework, it’s going to fall down. There’s nothing to hold it up. The same thing can happen to your IT operation unless it, too, is underpinned by a solid framework. That framework is often ITIL.

In our continuing series of tech innovators you should know, we present George Stibitz, who invented the digital calculator… and a lot more than will impress you.

Evidence is rising that direct video connections are beginning to catch up to voice and text as a means of communicating. This impacts how we communicate online and offline, with new technologies to serve the visual and auditory needs.

With luck, you rarely need these ten tools to run your Linux-based data center. But when disaster looms, you will be glad you have these utilities – most of them free – in your toolbox directory. Some of them even help hapless Windows users.

In 1994, Arthur C. Clarke, predicted what we could expect from the space program after Apollo. Here’s what the inventor of the communications satellite and the legendary science fiction author said, and what actually came to pass.

With so many of us “living online” it’s easy to forget about social media identities for those who are, to be precise, not living at all. There are now over 5 million ghost accounts in Facebook, including digital profiles of people who are now dead. The number of online accounts of dead people is rising, as the digital age matures. What, if anything, can be done about it?

Most self-respecting geeks can recognize the names of techies influential in computing and engineering history: Woz, Gates, even Turing and Tesla. But if you don't know who Vannevar Bush is, it's time to remedy that situation.

You almost certainly know about those little chips used for everything from supply chain automation to protecting your pets. But perhaps you hadn’t quite contemplated what an important skill it might be for a techie’s career prospects. Cameron Laird explains...

A few quick highlights of this month's articles, in case you missed any of them, plus a sad cheerio from your humble editor...

One of the fathers of the Internet discusses its future – and the issues techies should have as top-of-mind. Better sharpen those wooden stakes, says Karen Heyman...