Opinion

YouTube change more unpopular than Congress?

That’s one way to see stats from Change.org, which has hosted 500,000 petitions

When industry jargon and buzzwords backfire

How a product pitch that name-dropped the '2012 API Billionaire's Club' got me thinking about the proper way to describe your API.

30 months in the slammer for man who pointed green laser at aircraft

Brocade evolves the storage network

The market leader's latest announcement shows that the people at Brocade have not taken their eye off the ball.

Yahoo buys teen’s startup for $30M, hires him … and WHAT?

Nick D’Aloisio makes a mint, lands plum job … and quite the perk

Network Functions Virtualization drives revolution in telecom network architectures

A NEW architecture for enterprise Internet access

Benefits include lower costs, scalability and improved performance for both intranet and public cloud-based services/SaaS access, while maintaining centralized network security management.

Land O’Lakes CIO shares keys to success at IT Roadmap conference

Fixing process exceptions. And music on hold

Cautionary tale from a Twitter ‘share-cropper’

Unix: When pipes don’t make sense

While pipes are one of the things that make Unix such a powerful and versatile operating system, they don't always make sense. Many people still fall into the "useless use of a pipe" habit while still others use pipes in situations in which pipes si

Kali Linux: The Next BackTrack

The most popular open source pen testing distribution just got better

Avaya announces collaborative cloud for service providers

New course teaches techniques for detecting the most sophisticated malware in RAM only

Security, BYOD and Cloud are top of mind in hot MSP market

Diverse group of vendors help MSPs to secure BYOD and the cloud

Surface tablet compared to Zune, Kin in brutal analyst assessment

At best, Microsoft's Surface tablet lineup will take a distant third behind iOS and Android in the market, analysts have predicted. At worst, it will become a laughing stock like Zune.

DARPA wants unique automated tools to rapidly make computers smarter

DARPA program looks to bolster Artificial Intelligence tools to make machine learning easier

Microsoft Lync shows off the basics, but misses the mark

At the Enterprise Connect, Microsoft's keynote address fell short.

Chrome kicking browser butt just about everywhere

And Internet Explorer use continues to decline

No, Google will not merge Android and Chrome, for obvious reasons

Even before Google Chairman Eric Schmidt dispelled the rumors that Google would merge Android and Chrome, we should have known it was never going to happen.

How the ‘largest IPv4 census ever’ broke the law, but still respected user privacy

A fascinating, yet illegal, hacking project mapped global internet activity of nearly half-a-million devices without spying on them.

Cisco, others see run on data center switches

But software centrism, competition prompts a stock downgrade just after Juniper's

Presentations and pointing with lasers

Upcoming Webinars: BYOD and Virtualization, and WLAN Architecture Advances

Two more Webinars on two very important topics.

NASA denies reports its Voyager spacecraft has left the solar system

NASA says Voyager 1 is close to interstellar space but hasn’t made it yet

Livestream here on Friday, March 22: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff speaks to customers in Boston

Hear latest from cloud CRM company's founder

Andy Rubin’s departure is just part of Android’s nature

The ultimate open source executive is moving on from Android at precisely the right time.

Google Reader demise: Music video captures crying shame of it all

Even animals are shedding tears for Google RSS reader

Laser pointers produce too much energy, pose risks for the careless

NIST study finds 90% of green lasers are in violation of federal regs

Has Google deindexed Digg (as it would appear)?

Twitter abuzz with hints of retaliation