Opinion

Microsoft era ending at Juniper

With Muglia's sudden resignation and Johnson's retirement, service provider hardware will be front and center again

Explaining ‘digital life’: A new measurement for mobile success

Market share isn't the only metric to measure success in the highly competitive mobile market.

2013 Equipment and Infrastructure UC Trends

UC Year in Review, Part 2

Microsoft Cloud OS Network Strengthens Weak Link

EFF chides Google for pulling Android privacy feature

Google reportedly claims feature was released accidentally

How will going private really change Dell?

The company no longer has to answer to the public markets, but will that be enough to spark a renaissance?

WiFi might rot your brain (or kill your cress)

Danish 9th graders demonstrate effects of WiFi EMF on cress seeds ... mankind (possibly) doomed

Detecting Neo-Nazi Rock with “Nazi Shazam”

German police are using Shazam-like tech to fight neo-Nazis

Free for SMBs: A detailed guide for cybersecurity to ensure business vitality

How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free

It's a model that worked for Android, so why not? It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft gave away a product to grow a market.

G20 Diplomats phished with promise of nude Carla Bruni

It's hard to believe but Chinese hackers successfully phished G20 attendees with nude photo bait

Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free?

Microsoft operating-system shakeup rumors promise a streamlined development structure

Eucalyptus Systems and Dell tout cloud-in-a-box

Looking toward a totally seamless public/private cloud hybrid.

Dell and Red Hat: Two OpenStack heavy hitters team up to take on the cloud

Here's why that's important

Unified Communications is a mess, and Oracle’s trying to clean it up

Very few enterprises can claim to use UC products from just one vendor.

Objectivity in the Linux world

How the open source world fosters open discussion.

“Revenge porn” operator busted over extortion allegations

Nightmare scenario sees charges that man extorted money from victims after his site posted their pictures

What does the YouTube say?

Top viral YouTube videos of 2013 mashed into one

NASA has built an Iron Man robot

It operates like Terminator, but looks a whole lot like Iron Man.

The week NSA surveillance finally jumped the shark

Forget about the complaints from top tech leaders, the NSA's biggest problem is its own ridiculousness

Cisco wraps Insieme, works on UCS 2.0

Potential $863M payout won't happen until FY 2016 and 2017; WHIPTAIL offered as "happy meal" to storage partners

Stats don’t lie: Windows 8 has failed

Even with the improvements in 8.1 and XP's imminent demise, the OS is not getting any major traction.

Adobe Connect Offers New Features

NextPlane Introduces Microsoft 365 Federation Service

A year after ban on loud TV commercials: BETTER?

Complaints persist but FCC says they are declining

Private Mars mission beams Lockheed Martin onboard to build spacecraft

Mars One group ultimately plans for human settlement of Mars

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Too Many Tabs Edition

This one hits close to home

Baidu chooses Docker containers over sandbox for PaaS

Baidu Application Engine (BAE) 2.0 to use containers, not sandboxes

Now, more than ever, Twitter knows exactly where you are

Twitter has invested in increasing its geo-tracking feature

DARPA targets $4.8M to close backdoor security problems

Raytheon BBN Technologies and GrammaTech look to close hidden malicious code threats

What Is Wi-Fi’s Role in the Internet of Things?

I’ve wondered before about whether Wi-Fi will become a major factor in RFID. Now a similar question: where does Wi-Fi fit in the Internet of Things?