Opinion

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?

US lab developing technology for space traffic control

Steve Jobs introduces the Mac for the first time [Video Flashback]

Watch a piece of Apple and computing history as Steve Jobs intros the Mac in 1984

Verizon’s Intel Media buy could be a win for consumers, too

Intel Media's OnQue technology will improve network efficiency and how people search for and watch television.

Tools for when Linux goes mainstream

The free, open source tools available for Linux rival other mainstream OSes

Watch Jimmy Fallon try and shield Bill Gates from his MacBook Pro

On the Jimmy Fallon show last night, viewers were treated to a solid interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates along with a comical MacBook Pro sleight of hand

Alcatel-Lucent, BT credit “Super Alien Channel” in delivering fastest broadband speed EVAH!

Binge away on movies & TV shows: 1.4Tbps over fiber could deliver 44 uncompressed HD films in a second

$15B market for “live” SDN by 2018

$30B total potential market for service provider deployments, says ACG

Bill Gates cranks out viral video

Doesn't hurt to have Jimmy Fallon, a billionaire's resources and a good cause on his side

Shattered: Apple could have used some Gorilla Glass on its Fifth Ave NYC store

Snowblower reportedly shatters Apple Store glass during storm