What WordPress Can Learn From the Ghost Project

Last year John O’Nolan caused quite a stir when he announced that he intended to fork WordPress to create Ghost, a new open source blogging platform. O’Nolan posted his proposed designs for Ghost on his website, originally intending for it to be a minimalist concept...

EMC Revenue At Risk In $10 Billion Document Security Market

Should investors be worried that EMC lost a bid to sell its document protection software to a big buyer of its storage hardware? Surely such revenue represents a tiny proportion of its total — after all data storage hardware remains its biggest source of revenue and...

Tech companies want you to have free web encryption

Ideally, you’d encrypt everything you do on the web to keep it away from spies and thieves. However, getting a security certificate to enable that encryption on your own site can be both costly and difficult — many people don’t even bother....

Amazon Moves to Extend Cloud-Computing Dominance

Most people know about Amazon’s ambitions to sell you everything from books and movies and smartphones to power tools and auto parts. Less understood outside the technology industry is just how aggressively the company is also trying to become an important technology...