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Conference attendees support partnerships between the feds and hackers, and even U.S. Cybercommand head General Keith Alexander shook hands with 11-year-old hacker CyFi.
We’re using some new acronyms (like the industry doesn’t have enough already) to define four key classes of wireless LAN. The question: will the categories remain distinct?
Historian Peter Turchin predicted in 2012 that widespread violence would erupt worldwide sometime around the year 2020. His prediction was based on an area of research known as cliodynamics.
Small sample size noted, but English Wikipedia said to score better than Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Apple-Samsung trial has provided us with an absolute treasure trove of information regarding Apple's iPhone prototypes. Below is why Apple initially shied away from shaped glass and why an iPhone prototype resembling the iPod Mini never passed in
Gibbs wants a giant Japanese robot for Christmas and finds a great FOSS repository.
While we should be seeing consolidation in the enterprise Wi-Fi space, the opposite is happening, and AirTight Networks is one of the latest to offer an innovative, interesting, and even enticing combination of access, assurance, and cloud-based mana
I wasn't kidding when I said the new Outlook service was a lot like the basic Facebook service.
GAO report says technology has whizzed past federal protection bills
Twitter today released its Political Index, a tool that aggregates Tweets for real-time political polling data. But how easily could this data be manipulated?
Attack on New Zealand site, allegedly by Spaniard, said to violate Anonymous code of conduct
More IT staff required when running IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously.
Infrastructure and set-top boxes boosted by "TV Everywhere"
Even after giving Hotmail a huge facelift, Microsoft preps a replacement for it.
Sure, there are benefits to live chat between IT support and end users, but the potential negatives outweigh them.
Plus for Romney: Zogby survey for CompTIA shows large numbers undecided
Microsoft mice and keyboards may be a necessary evil
Debunking myths about Oracle's acquisition of Xsigo, and why it won't spark an SDN war.
Critic of Olympics coverage jettisoned for tweeting NBC Sports exec's email address
QoS, compression and “WAN Optimization” technologies introduced due to limited bandwidth of expensive private WANs
New release sets the stage for even greater scale and features.
Connection found on the president’s mother’s side
Start-up Networcsim has licensed the technology which will let users more effectively design wireless nets for difficult implementations
We can expected Windows 8 to leave out Silverlight, but where's the JavaScript?
There are many ways to watch the 2012 London Olympics online, but it's often not easy.
In a review of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8, Gartner analyst Gunnar Berger's one-word description of the mouse-and-keyboard user interface as "bad" was extrapolated in the blogosphere to describe the whole OS. He's since responded, and removed the
