Opinion

The latest craze? High-voltage fences promise to zap would-be copper thieves

Frying-up copper thieves might be one answer to a massive copper theft problem

McAfee blog admin calls his role in affair ‘accidental … shocking and life-changing’

'‘I happened to fall into this whirlwind quite by accident.'

Exchange 2013 – Truly Enterprise Scale and Supportability

Simplifying the Architecture of Exchange = Making Exchange Easier to Manage

Oprah tweets her love of Microsoft Surface tablets from her iPad

Oprah recently tweeted her love for all things Microsoft Surface... from her iPad

A thing the Internet of Things doesn’t need

Gibbs is massively disappointed in the Universal Internet Thermostat manufactured by the Hunter Fan Company

A thing the Internet of Things doesn’t need

SJSU sidestepped sole source documentation in Cisco deal

Instead evaluated Cisco pricing in other western US contracts to justify not bidding $28M project

Microsoft Research hires big computer science thinker Jeannette Wing

Carnegie Mellon, NSF vet bolsters Microsoft Research International's team

What Cisco and Dell’s Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT

Last week's acquisitions of Cloupia and Gale technologies were a brilliant counter to the increasing power of Microsoft and VMware and provides tremendous insight into the future of IT.

Vidyo enables UC capabilities on Nintendo Wii U

NASA paint kills that new car smell, saves satellites too

NASA engineers developing coating that keeps bad gases from escaping and damaging people, technical systems

The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics

Gibbs sees a tremendous need for educating everyone about computer ethics and there's a program that might help

Not everyone is paying attention to McAfee saga

After 9 days, the light comes on for one Twitter user

iPhone 5S and iPad 5 may be released in mid 2013 – Report

The holiday shopping season hasn't even started and we're already seeing reports about the iPad 5 and iPhone 5s

Exchange 2013 Enhanced Email Retention, Archiving, Legal Hold, and eDiscovery

Eliminating the Need for 3rd Party Tools and Leveraging the Built-in Capabilities of the 2013 Office Server Products

The 2012 Network World Holiday Gift Guide Is Ready – Are You?

Lots of great gifts this year – whether you’re comatose on Thanksgiving evening or not.

Apple continues to change in the Tim Cook era

With over a year under his belt as CEO, Tim Cook is putting his own stamp on Apple

Calling BS on McAfee’s ‘pre-written’ blog posts

The rest of the hard-to-believe story might turn out to be true, but …

Cisco Buys Meraki: Start of a WLAN Consolidation?

Just what does Cisco have in mind in buying Meraki? Is this an acknowledgement that the market for WLANs is evolving, or are they just keeping some valuable IP out of the hands of the competition?

Use Subversion, Apache, and WebSVN to view your repositories

Big Switch arrives

The Ninth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

30 years later, it’s an unimaginable hack

Setting limits with ulimit

The ulimit command can keep disaster at bay on your Linux systems, but you need to anticipate where limits will make sense and where they will cause problems.

Exchange 2013: Support for (non-Microsoft) Tablets, Laptops, Mobile Phones

Providing iPads, iPhones, Android, Mac, Linux Systems with a Full OWA Experience

What’s New in Exchange 2013 (an early adopter’s perspective)

Security spending hike good for Cisco

Data center, cloud builds boosting market to near $3B

AppDirect Builds a Cloud/Mobile App Ecosystem

A discussion with three companies building app ecosystems.

‘Dumb Ways to Die’ will leave you feeling alive

A PSA that will leave you humming and hopefully save a few lives

Apple;s lead in Lightning accessories for iPhone 5, iPad faces challenges

JBL, Belkin, Scosche and iLuv accessories have released Lightning-compatible accessories ranging from speaker docs to chargers