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Six products for Geekmas

Gibbs has half a dozen products that you might want to give your favorite geek this Christmas. Or you might just want them yourself.

Netflix and Disney: The good news and the bad news

Yes, Netflix is going to get access to lots of great Disney, LucasFilm, and Marvel movies...in 2016.

iPhone 5s rear housing photos emerge

Photos purporting to be of the iPhone 5s rear housing recently emerged

Big ad network that secretly sniffed users’ online habits settles with FTC

FTC says Epic looked for some highly sensitive, personal search information

Study finds telecommuters getting jobbed

Telecommuters piling up work hours as remote access, mobile technologies proliferate

Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment debuts, brings added flexibility

Wildly popular Google I/O event slated for May 15-17

Google gives developers a heads up about Google I/O confab

Do They Speak Open Source in Japan?

iPod godfather Tony Fadell says Scott Forstall ‘got what he deserved’

iPod godfather Tony Fadell isn't sad that Scott Forstall is leaving Apple.

NASA revs-up new Mars rover, missions to grow red planet exploration program

NASA wants another Mars rover and will ultimately have or be part of seven missions to the Red Planet

Apple TV and iTunes update news for cord-cutters

Apple's made some small improvements in its latest Apple TV and iTunes updates for Internet video watchers.

A gift guide to please any geek … 25 years ago

Holiday gift-giving advice from Computer Chronicles, circa 1987

Wireless LAN is beginning to look a lot more wired

Aruba's new 7200 controller series suggests a shift of the wireless LAN to operate

10Gen’s MongoDB and SoftLayer roll out instant NoSQL Cloud

New partnership defines right way to partner with cloud service providers.

Microsoft may have some Windows Phone 8 momentum after all

It's amazing what a smartphone OS with a future can do.

iPhone 5 to land in more than 50 additional countries this month, including China and Brazil

Apple on Monday announced that the iPhone 5 will be landing in more than 50 countries this December.

Rumored follow-ons for Surface tablets; reduced orders for original Surface

Even if true, not astonishing.

I shudder when mainstream media does tech

Leave covering tech to geeks and we promise not to cover the stock market.

Addressing WAN packet loss, Part 2

Handling loss differently, mitigating the effects and hiding the loss from end stations can improve WAN application performance.

Next PBS remix viral video candidate? LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow

PBS mixmaster Melodysheep at it again after Mister Rogers, Bob Ross, Julia Child remixes take off on YouTube

Tumblr hacked in Brony-related attack spreading racist spam post

Tumblr has been hacked in a rapidly moving attack that hijacks users accounts and posts an offensive message. The kicker? When users try to delete the post, their account gets deleted, too.

The Daily iPad App from News Corp. to shut down on December 15.

The Daily iPad app, the world's first iPad-only newspaper, is shutting down as of December 15.

Surprise, surprise: McAfee not captured, he’s ‘safe’

At least now he's claiming that he's gotten out of Dodge

Mobile app developers want user data for Christmas

The holiday season presents great opportunities for mobile app developers, too. For them, though, user data is the main pursuit.

Collaborating and videoconferencing over the cloud with OmniJoin

The approaching BYOD wave

The season for quantifying enterprise happiness

DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux server best practices

McAfee’s blog claims he’s been captured, but …

Authorities in Belize proclaim no knowledge of any arrest

Time to Upgrade Cisco Catalyst 6500 Non-E-Series Chassis

Support for older 6500 chassis ended yesterday