After a recent look at a handful of popular mobile apps across multiple platforms, there are some common privacy-invasion practices that should worry users—and especially companies who participate in BYOD. Learn how to better protect personal and corporate data when selecting third-party apps.

Joe Townsend takes a look at the future of configuration management by looking back—way back—to see what others have said about CM's future and to check whether their predictions are still relevant. It's interesting to note that the problems of the past will probably still plague us in the future.

While it may be difficult to wrap your head around the concept of storing data—massively big data—on microscopic strands of DNA, you should try. Scientists in England have come up with a way to store truly limitless amounts of data on DNA, where it will be safe for tens of thousands of years.