Google has recently been taking a hard line on the US patent system, claiming that it over-rewards the work of coming up with an idea while taxing those who do the work of actually implementing it. The company also takes issue with excessive patent litigation from so-called "patent trolls," and...

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt talks analytics as well as the industrial Internet. GE and IBM are increasingly set up to compete as everything from healthcare to transportation networks to infrastructure get smarter.

Amazon has plugged Node.js into its free platform-as-a-service, Elastic Beanstalk.…...

One of the most important responsibilities of any administrator is to make regular backups. But unlike backing up regular data, backing up databases isn't a straightforward affair. Designing an effective strategy for taking backups of production MySQL servers depends on a lot of factors.