Google has a busy couple of weeks coming up. The company will likely take the wraps off a new Nexus 7 tablet this week and its Moto X smartphone next week, according to reports.

By now, you know that moving the enterprise to the cloud is a complex operation, with effects on the whole business. Careful planning is needed to be sure the migration goes smoothly.

While writing my last post about putting new products out into the world, I lampooned Microsoft for stinking -- albeit in a very successful way. As an example of the opposite, I held aloft the likes of Google, IBM, Amazon, and, wait for it, Apple.

Two months before Wall Street tested its cybersecurity strategies, New York's Department of Financial Services sent letters to 31 large health insurers to determine the policies and procedures these companies have in place to protect themselves -- and their customers' data -- from hackers and breaches.

Whether you call them spies or whistleblowers, the revelations by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning continue to reverberate. Already, we have found two developers that are hoping their products will address business and consumer demand for privacy -- from competitors and the US government.

After one year at the helm of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer can survey the terrain with some satisfaction. Her single-minded pursuit of acquisitions that bolster the mobile and app portfolios has helped put the company in the headlines, and for once in a good way.

Despite all the recent revelations about phone and Internet surveillance, you might have thought that sitting in your car, at least, listening to music or picking your nose, you were out of sight of Big Brother.