Opinion

Apple’s original and secretive iPhone testing room [Photo]

A photo depicting what Apple's early iPhone testing rig looked like.

NASA snaps shot of flashy Mars-bound comet

Hubble telescope offers images of comet that is in 1 million year orbit

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From the Department of How It’s Made

Update: Boston Police Commissioner bolts IT Security conference to get to scene of fatal fire

Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans recounts Boston Marathon investigation, then suddenly called away...

In pivot, AWS acknowledges private, hybrid clouds

Amazon Web Services is the leader in the public cloud, but private and hybrid clouds have been a weak spot. That may be changing

Cisco’s cloud services reversal was inevitable

Market dynamics forced it to compete with customers 3 years after pledging not to

Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition continues to look like a mistake

Microsoft is having a harder time buying Nokia than it expected, and that's reducing its value in the process.

What Mark Zuckerberg said after acquiring Instagram

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said Instagram would be the company's only big-time acquisition.

Boycotting Mozilla isn’t the best approach

Some people are boycotting Mozilla products after learning that newly appointed CEO once donated to a campaign to prohibit same-sex marriage. But is a boycott the best approach?

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Chemistry Edition

I mean who hasn’t done this on a first date?

NTSB reminds pilots to land at correct airport

Two wrong landing incidents in the past year prompted the National Transportation Safety Board’s communiqué on incorrect airport landings

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says APIs will rule the world

Vogels and Echo co-founder Khris Loux discuss how APIs will revolutionize the way the business world works.

Cyber black markets on darknets: More profitable than the illegal drug trade.

I’m from security, may I see your earwax?

Hybrid Clouds as far as the eye can see

If Hybrid dominates, shouldn’t you develop for them?

VMware Fusion upgrade: Lousy error message and a restart?!

With Google’s announcements, it’s ‘Game On’ in the cloud

Amazon now faces real competition in the cloud

Mitel, ShoreTel, snom Offer New VoIP Phones

Genesys Acquires Solariat to Enhance its Social Analytics

Artificial Intelligence challenge: Could a robot give its own TED talk?

New X Prize, TED competition wants TED-worthy robot presenters

Video: What is a rootkit? (Chalk Talk)

Watch this primer on how rootkits operate with malware

Best of Interop Finalists Announced, any surprises?

Interop Las Vegas 2014

Microsoft: Upgrade from Office 2003, but not to Office 2013

Photoshop artists give Bill Belichick his wish

New England Patriots coach should have seen this one coming

Can GameStop survive competition from Microsoft and Walmart?

Some heavy hitters are entering GameStop's market.

Apple may be working on newly designed MacBook for 2014 release

New MacBook Pro and Air models may be released in the next few months.

Melissa virus turning 15 … (age of the stripper still unknown)

First email-borne macro virus caused what was then great havoc

Unix: More networking basics for the beginner

The ifconfig command doesn't suck; it's just not as cool or sophisticated as ip.

How Cisco wants to win in the cloud

And why it will be difficult

Ubuntu phone isn’t important enough to demand an open source baseband

Although it's a bummer that Ubuntu-based smartphones won't be fully open source, it's not really Canonical's fault.

In defense of Microsoft’s leak investigation

Some people may be upset with Microsoft for going into the leaker's email account, but it had no choice.