Opinion

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: System is Down Edition

He’s got that going for him

Unix: Book review — Perl one-liners

If you get a secret thrill out of a well crafted Perl one-liner, but only have a few that you can pull out of your mental pocket and use, this book may be just what Santa should be leaving under your tree!

Using SDN to Create a Packet Monitoring System

Packet-level Monitoring Use Case with Cisco XNC and Monitor Manager

Signal processing advance: even faster Fourier Transforms

MIT researchers have made a mathematical breakthrough by making FFTs faster and requiring less data

The Lumen, a smart LED bulb that’s more of a novelty

The Lumen LED bulb is clever, entertaining but a closed system

On the Internet, perhaps Twitter doesn’t want you to be a dog

Harvey's Twitter account was suspended but we don't know why ...

Names shuffle in the Microsoft CEO shift

Mulally fades as a pair of new names from the tech sector rise.

History of Computer Viruses, Part 2: Macro Viruses and Worms

From weaponized viruses through computer worms in the 1990s

Farpoint Group Stock Ownership Policy Change

Of necessity, a change, which may be temporary, in our policy with respect the ownership of equities in firms that are discussed in this blog.

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