Opinion

Cisco’s Meraki acquisition helps pad Citrix’s bottom line

Sure, Cisco is a big company, but …

Shadow IT: Boon or burden?

Google Glass to come with prescription lenses

A new partnership will make Google Glass useful for people who wear prescription glasses, too.

Have we just seen Peak Samsung?

Samsung's latest earnings report suggests that the Korean giant's epic run may be winding down.

Logitech aims to video-enable every conference room

Webcam, speakerphone for non-telepresence systems (basically, the rest of us)

A primer on support for ‘Realm Stripping’

A primer on Realm Stripping, a particularly useful concept in the university space.

FBI takes out alleged Android app scammers

FBI said groups wanted to illegally sell millions of copy written Android Apps

Apple reportedly interested in getting into mobile payments

With over 500 million credit cards on file, Apple is in a unique position to get into the payments industry. Now, a new report claims that this may be Apple's next move.

Why the elementary OS team is the perfect home for Shotwell

Photo management software Shotwell was cut loose, but was taken in by the elementary OS team.

It’s getting easier to steal your neighbors’ unused Wi-Fi bandwidth

BeWifi makes unused bandwidth in one household available to the neighbors who need it.

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Two’s Enough Edition

If you're not careful, you're going to wear it out

Surprise! Cisco behind mystery hold music on This American Life story

We learn that Cisco CallManager telephony system music has a real hold on people

Unix: Writing more maintainable shell scripts

Tom Perkins pulls the Nazi card on anti-tech activists

Justin Bieber may have the attention of the media but just as dumb things are going on in the tech world

Shocking! Court rules IP addresses aren’t the same as people

The horrible B-move Elf-Man actually does something good for Internet users

What exactly can the NSA do?

An up-to-date list of the NSA's skullduggery and some observations about black hat innovation and evolution

iPhone + Luxi = an amazing light meter

Luxi turns your iPhone into a high quality light meter

CenturyLink Bundles SMB Hosted VoIP With Cloud Services

8x8 Upgrades its Virtual Contact Center Offer

“Astonishingly accurate” optical clock could be new world time standard

JILA-developed clock uses strontium atoms held in a lattice of laser light

Gmail outage coincided with Google Site Reliability team’s Reddit AMA

It's almost too convenient.

How Microsoft can save itself in the mobile world

Once upon a time, Microsoft encountered a foe in the PC market. What it did then is what it should do now in the mobile market.

Teacher’s online safety experiment takes trollish turn

Picture-sharing lesson a ‘success’ on more than one level

The Net Neutrality explanation you’ve been waiting for, courtesy of The Colbert Report

Stephen Colbert also zings Microsoft Bing

Switching highlights Juniper’s Q4

New CEO Kheradpir has an efficiency plan in the works but company might want to stay the switching course for now

Gigamon’s Netflow Generation app should prove useful

A new app bodes well for Gigamon's recent hot streak.

K-12 schools can make the grade with identity and access management

iFixit goes old school, tears down original Mac on 30th anniversary

1984's Apple Mac 128K gets 2014 "take-apart"

Netflix rallies users to pre-empt ISPs charging for carriage

Count me in as a Netflix supporter!

Ersatz offers Machine Learning as a Service

Black Cloud's Ersatz service provides high-performance neural networks as a service

Did Microsoft reach into your PC to stomp a botnet?

Report claims the company turned off botnet software on user's PCs. Is that their right?