Opinion

Consumers aren’t interested in smart TVs, study reveals

A new report from the research firm NPD found that most consumers aren't terribly excited or even interested in using so-called "smart" features that come with their HDTV.

How to set up JBoss AS7 Domain mode

Cisco continues to lead slowing security market

Share slips from last year due to revenue decline

FBI: Dirty deedsters are tweaking telephony attacks; coercion

Scam artists turning again to Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) attacks

Will Facebook become the next big VoIP provider?

Carnegie Mellon names Pfenning as head of Computer Science Department

Move necessitated after Microsoft Research snaps up CMU's top CompSci administrator

Time to drop Dropbox: Sparkleshare reaches version 1.0

Why Sparkleshare is the better cloud storage solution for freedom lovers.

Looking forward to a future Internet

Now that the WCIT is over what does the future of the Internet look like?

More on BYOD – A New Webinar Next Week

BYOD emerged in 2012 and immediately defined one of the key strategies for mobility going forward. A new Webinar next week will look at both current alternatives and a few exciting possibilities for the future.

178 years ago today we had a national debt of $0

Today’s national debt sits north of $16 trillion

Windows 8 portables to get inexpensive, long-lived by Xmas 2013?

New Haswell chips will power touch-enabled, $600 machines with all-day batteries

CES 2013: GM opens platform, invites developers to build in-car apps

As GM made apparent at CES 2013, in-car apps are going to become all the more common in the next few years.

I know this is a story about a fire on a plane, but …

… I couldn’t let it pass

How to freeze Unix accounts

Goodbye SDN Controller, Hello Infrastructure Controller: Creating a Hardware Abstraction Layer for the Cloud

SDN has hit the world by storm and is no doubt here to stay, but it will not evolve in a vacuum. Devops, the ‘software-defined data center’ and converged infrastructure management are also evolving rapidly and in symbiosis with SDN. These symbiotic a

DARPA in search of a 100 Gb/sec wireless technology that can penetrate clutter

DARPA’s latest wireless effort has over $18.3 million in funding

CES 2013 blog: Live from Las Vegas

A somewhat filtered view of this week's CES 2013 happenings, with as much focus on enterprise products as we can squeeze in

For the first time, a small data breach draws a big fine ($50K)

Idaho hospice to pay $50,000 for HIPAA violation

iTunes App Store tops 40 billion downloads; generates $7 billion for developers

Apple announced today that iOS users have downloaded over 40 billion applications

Microsoft, Google, the FTC and Unintended Consequences

The pro-Google crowd is calling Microsoft out for sic'ing the FTC on Google. They shouldn't be surprised.

Why I abandoned Windows Phone 8

I recently acquired a Nokia Lumia 920 to experiment with Windows Phone 8. But a few weeks in, I'm already back to my Android-based device.

Getting Ready for 802.11ac

802.11ac is really going to pick up steam in 2013, but I’m not recommending you run out and buy it just yet. There’s a good deal of advance work to do, the subject of a new Farpoint Group Technical Note.

How to extend Nagios for custom monitoring

Samsung teases new TV design at CES 2013

Samsung might have something exciting in store at CES this year

Ubuntu Smartphones No, Ubuntu Tablets, Yes

Ubuntu tablets could finally bring Linux to the desktop

Understanding and Implementing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Building Hyper-V Guest Sessions in Microsoft's Cloud

Top Android stories of 2012

2012 will go down as a pivotal year for Android's growth. Here are the stories that dominated the headlines through the year.

StealthSEEK is a cost effective data discovery tool for Microsoft environments

Video about ESD both shocking and funny

UPDATED: Although not everyone is amused

Our CES info shopping list: What about the tablet?