"YEAR END" news, interviews, and features

News about YEAR END

• CBA cuts IT spend by nearly a third

  Investments in digital channels making "continued impact"

• Experts: FCC will adopt net neutrality rules in early 2015

  Yet, it's unclear whether the agency will reclassify broadband as a regulated utility

• Startups: The crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels ... the dumb ones

  Genetic-based dating, illegal parking, awkward wake-up calls and more!

• Three ways enterprise software is changing

  Today's IT shops must grapple with analysis, cloud computing and DevOps

• In 2015, EU aims to sweep away old rules on data protection and copyright

  The Commision wants to break down national barriers to create what it calls a digital single market

• Top five smartphone disappointments of the year

  The new iPhones should have had a better front camera and the Moto G should have had LTE, among other disappointments

Features about YEAR END

• Debate over NSA surveillance shifts with judge's ruling, task force report

  Critics of the agency's surveillance programs say momentum has shifted in the debate

• Bringing brains to computers

  Silicon brains will create new computers that can use the human brain as a model to make decisions

• The year in tech quotes

  As the year draws to a close, we offer a dozen of the quotes that stuck with us in 2013

• Making games of enterprise software

  Gamification is an emerging technique of using gaming techniques to better engage software users

• SAP in 2013: Five things to watch

  HANA news could dominate the early weeks of the new year

• Patent cases color mobile market, to continue in 2013