Opinion

Face to face with 8×8: Company execs discuss keys to VoIP success

Mid-market and contact center VoIP adoption are growth engines.

WIth iWatch looming, Microsoft plans its own fitness wearable as Woz tosses aside his Galaxy Gear

Why Google bought Songza: The music industry’s third revolution

Thomas Edison revolutionized music when he invented recording. Steve Jobs re-revolutionized music with the iPod and iTunes. Now music streaming has launched a third revolution.

FAA’s ruling on smartphones during takeoff has had little impact

Airplanes remain a haven for those looking for respite from their smartphones. But for how long?

Has Microsoft finally realized PCs are different than tablets?

Windows 8's tile interface is fine on mobile devices, but Microsoft may have just figured out it’s terrible for traditional computers.

Blue Jeans introduces online forum for industry collaboration, customer advocacy

'Customer community' platform offers direct information exchange.

DARPA demos lightweight, 94GHz silicon system on a chip

System can support a range of modulation formats, so it could link to multiple systems using different waveforms from a single silicon chip.

Wzor’s return brings Windows 9 rumors

The impressively accurate Microsoft leak group comes out of hiding with new information on Windows 8.1 Update 2 and Windows 9.

iFixIt giving away 15K iPhone ‘liberation kits’

Promise Theory

Can you really trust the network to keep promises?

New virtual assistant challenges Siri, Cortana

So what can the offering from SRI do that Siri and Cortana can't? We don't know yet.

‘Luckily, monkeys love to gamble’ … but they’re just as irrational about it as humans

Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private cloud

Joyent hires Cisco exec as CEO, jumps into the hybrid cloud market

Oracle releases Communications Application Orchestrator to address NFV

Solution designed to address service provider virtualization.

Unix: Having fun with diff

The diff command can be your best friend when you’re troubleshooting problems on a Unix system, but are you using it effectively as you could?

And there’s something else wrong with Comcast’s Xfinity customer-based Wi-Fi hotspot plan …

If you don't disable Comcast's Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot service it's like increasing your bill by $1.90 per month!

Why are phishers targeting gamers? ‘Cause that’s where the money is …

Gamers are being targeted by phishers and the pickings are easy and valuable.

Cisco, NetApp mark progress

FlexPod integrated IT infrastructure system generated $3 billion in joint sales in three years

FBI warns businesses “Man-in-the-E-Mail” scam escalating

FBI says millions have been lost by companies paying fraudulent invoices

Maître d’ to Benioff: No lunch for you

Apple hires lead software engineer from Atlas Wearables

Carnegie Mellon system lets you get to the good parts of video, fast

Algorithm sorts through tedious GoPro, Google Glass and smartphone videos to get to the good stuff

Supreme Court goes 1 for 2 on big tech decisions

SCOTUS requires warrants to search cellphones, but its Aereo TV-in-the-cloud decision doesn’t address cloud storage issues.

Revisiting Comcast’s Xfinity public hotspot strategy

OK, so bandwidth won’t be an issue, but there’s lots more that’s bad with Comcast’s plan.

100Mb/sec Ethernet coming to a car near you?

IEEE sets study group for 100Mb/sec automotive Ethernet

4.7 and 5.5-inch iPhones slated to go on sale simultaneously this fall

The PSTN transition to VoIP: Going green

Reducing energy, water and real estate costs -- and CO2 emissions.

The desktop-a-week review: Enlightenment (E17)

I will be using a new desktop environment for a week at a time, and reviewing them afterward. Up this week: Enlightenment (E17 to be specific).

Impact of Today’s Hardware and Software Applications in Cloud-based Environments: Part 1

VMware: We’re aiming to be a top 3 cloud provider

In Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant VMware fell far behind in the market, but executive say it’s early yet.