Opinion

Declassified: How to get around electronic jamming circa 1960

US Air Force video shows how to use manual triangulation to track aircraft

Skype’s Impressive Growth, Sonus Updates SBC Portfolio

Skype Traffic Grew 36% in 2013

Watch out Amazon: What IBM’s $1.2B cloud investment really means

IBM insists it will be a major public cloud player

Building a better password

Conventional wisdom about what constitutes a good password is wrong

Innovation on the web lives and dies with Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality was terminated by a Federal Court of Appeals decision in an action brought by Verizon, making it harder for breakthrough startup internet streaming companies to get off the ground.

TIA asks Congress to avoid mandates on (fill in the blank)

File this ‘news’ under ‘Planes land safely at airport’

Prediction: Windows 9 will hit the market in 2014

Most are expecting Windows 9 to drop in 2015. That may be what Microsoft wants us to think, but it might not be the reality.

This Raspberry Pi Tablet is absolutely gorgeous

The PiPad has everything you could want in a tablet, and it was made by hand with a Raspberry Pi.

Why even ISPs will regret the end of net neutrality

A U.S. appeals court struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. Here's why we're all going to pay the price.

Next Gen NAC is designed to facilitate BYOD

50GB of free cloud storage when you download the new Box iOS app

Native iOS app is intuitive and clean. Did we mention the 50 free GBs?

Feds issue Top 10 most wanted transportation safety advances

NTSB lists distracted driving, crash survivability, flying in bad weather an other issues are top public safety concerns

Celebrate Mac@30: For $110-$140

Mac@30 event in Cupertino not sold out yet

Security nightmare worsens for Windows XP’s end of days

Microsoft is obviously trying to nudge users away from XP, but most probably won't hear it.

Using big data to identify birds

Cornell Lab's Merlin app makes bird identification simple and accurate

Cisco offers advice on Target breach

Encrypt at the POS to avoid loss of credit/debit card data

Try Amazon’s cloud for free, using Red Hat tools

Red Hat launches “test drives” of Amazon’s cloud through partners

An Overview of Malware Protection Techniques

How systems typically protect endpoints from malware

Six tips for BYOD Security from IBM

Big, small or in between, everyone can use these.

How to make 96,000lbs of WWII machinery into high-tech research platform

Equipment mimics movements of a large ship at sea and can be used to test radar, communications

Court decision, like the FCC, overreaches

The future of tech support, taking over your brain …

Research shows that one brain's thoughts can control another brain's muscles

A lot of groups want to go Mars. Will any succeed?

Human Mars trip get another push by scientific group

Net neutrality decision sells consumers out to the ISPs

Legal hairsplitting aside, appellate court ruling bad for Internet at large

New Windows 9 rumors confirm the old Windows 9 rumors

When one source independently confirms another, can you consider it true? Or at least hope for it?

White House goes nuts with safety hashtags, apps and other online tools

Second annual Datapalooza targets public safety apps, info

Lightpath, ShoreTel Product Upgrades; Cisco’s Collaboration Acquisition

Catching Up on Recent Events

Wearables – I’m Not So Sure…

The big deal at CES this year was wearable computing and communications devices – smartwatches and such. The next billion-dollar market? Maybe, but big questions remain.

Blogger beat: Google’s cozy $3.2B Nest buy – and hopes it won’t be too cozy

Google has been in smart home startup’s picture for a long time

Why would Ubuntu abandon Nexus tablets?

Ubuntu Touch will no longer support the Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 tablets.