Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on how IT can keep its strategic role in 2013, linux on smartphones, and more. I hope you find them useful:

Ubuntu on smartphones: What you need to know
The popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, recently announced that they’re creating a smartphone OS, which should be released this year. Mozilla also recently made news with the announcement that they are also working on a smartphone OS. What does this mean for business? If your company has built mobile web apps, you’re in the clear. Mobile web apps work across all operating systems, both now and in the future.

How IT can keep its strategic role in 2013
The author of this article makes a great point: IT isn’t guaranteed a place in strategic discussions simply because technology is becoming more important. If the IT department hopes to remain relevant in 2013, they must seek to understand the business, and the needs of the company’s ultimate customer. If you’d like to read more about which strategic issues are most important to IT in 2013, check out this article: Top 6 strategic IT priorities for 2013

Things you may not have known about html and CSS
Think you know HTML and CSS? Here’s an interesting (and funny) article for web developers and designers that explores little known facts about the two languages.

Richard Stallman, unrepentant: ‘Apple is your enemy’
While you may or may not agree with him, Richard Stallman has interesting opinions about Apple. He believes that the web should be open, but Apple has pioneered a new level of restricting users.