In this economy and job market, it pays to be proactive in keeping your professional profile up-to-date. On LinkedIn, this is often taken to mean seeking out recommendations from your supervisors, direct reports, and co-workers. But what good are recommendations if only people you already know can see them?

Star Trek has inspired generations of scientists and engineers. But the nature of science fiction leads us to ask, do sci-fi films get advanced technology right?

Computerworld's video gallery reveals a bounty of modern Easter eggs -- all inspired by a hidden message in a 30-year-old Atari 2600 game.

The cover story on today's Computerworld is "The PC of 2019". It looks at what life will be like a decade hence -- though the technology featured is already in consumers' homes.

The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. What few glimpses into the future that have proven remarkably accurate came not from IT visionaries, but from advertising firms.

Steve Jobs has backed out of Macworld, much to the dismay of fanboys and analysts. But you don't need Steve Jobs to have a Stevenote. Just look at Macworld '99.

Mac OS X was updated today to 10.5.6. This news means little to those of us who haven't upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. I invite readers to explain why I should fix what isn't broken.

Your iPhone's kill switch doesn't remove undesirable software -- it kills you. Stephen Colbert reports.

It's inevitable that technology progresses faster than IT's budget to keep up with it. But some people don't want to give up their tried-and-true methods. They'd rather stick with what they know than learn the new toy that's swayed everyone else with its bells-and-whistles.

One night only (Thursday, July 24th), the classic film of hacking and global thermonuclear war returns to theaters to ask us once again: Shall we play a game?

Google's driving directions are now complemented with walking ones. If you're accustomed to a variety of perplexing and congested one-way streets and restricted turns that are easier to navigate on foot than on wheels, you can now ignore those motorist restrictions to achieve the quickest, shortest routes.

Is your iPhone 3G not living up to expectations? Blendtec sets the example for what happens to iPhones that misbehave.

Music group 8 Bit Weapon performs chiptune music — original tunes produced using classic hardware, from an Apple II to a Game Boy processor. A free download of their soundtrack to the game Reset Generation comes with a bonus track that, like the game, is a love letter to gamers of ages yore.

I've been ignoring Safari updates for years, sticking with an older version of the web browser that had proven to be stable. But eventually its limitations caught up to me, and I had to consider if the cost of running older, slower software was really worth it.

The conventional wisdom that newfangled operating systems are superior to tried-and-true ones is flat-out wrong. Obviously the Apple IIGS perfected the OS decades before Leopard and Vista. Here are five reasons why.