Opinion

H.R. 1981, the jaws of law will eat your Internet rights

SNL skit busts on Verizon, 4G & LTE: “An old person’s nightmare”

Saturday Night Live skewers smartphone industry

IPv6 Week and World IPv6 Launch

Lengthier World IPv6 Day Events in 2012

NASA unplugs last mainframe

IBM mainframes no longer a NASA workhorse

Boston police use video to laugh in hacking group Anonymous’ face

Boston Police: Oh, the horror of having our news site hacked!

Start of a blog; end of the Start button

Stop all the Start button fretting; it’s a new user interface that ought to be, well, new

Microsoft Tackles the File Attachment Problem

Tired of dealing with attachments and the risks associated with them? Microsoft is offering its own fix via SkyDrive.

Verizon and BT team up for collaboration; Vonage launches new mobile app

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Rolls Out

In a blog post, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced the release of an initial version of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix. All the bundled software is also available in the Software Center, but Canonical has packaged up the remix into one

Now the EFF sounds an alarm about dating sites

It's been a rocky week for the likes of Match.com and eHarmony

Ruh Roh, Now The Bad Guys Are Using Open Source Too

Malware developers using the open source model to commit crime

M86 Security Labs report provides insight to plan security for 2012

“Virginia is for drones?”

Senators want unmanned aircraft testing center in Mid-Atlantic States

Organizing Patches with Mercurial Queues

Even star athletes are responsible for what they write online

Bruins goalie Tim Thomas is living in a fantasy world

More Google Wallet follies

It's not just rooted phones anymore

iPad 3 on track for early-mid March release

Apple will reportedly introduce the iPad in early March, followed by a release about one week later

Apple passes HP as largest tech company

Cisco still dragging feet on OpenFlow

But with momentum returning, why disrupt it with a potentially disruptive technology?

Microsoft Reveals More Details on Windows on ARM

Many details regarding Windows on ARM, or WOA, are yet to be disclosed, but Microsoft continues to disseminate a plethora of information via its Building Windows 8 blog.

Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical

Progress continues as Microsoft will issue fewest February patches since 2009

No, Wikipedia has not forgiven GoDaddy for backing SOPA

Lack of follow-through on promise to sever ties causes consternation

IBM spins ultrasharp nanomanufacturing tool 100,000X smaller than a pencil tip

The new IBM tip offers lower wear rate than conventional silicon tips and is 100X stronger company claims

Google to users: “Hey dummies! Don’t root your Android phone and expect Google Wallet to be safe!”

With great freedom comes greater chances of having your cash stolen

Steve Jobs’ FBI file touches on past drug use and ability to “twist the truth”

Upon request, the FBI released their file on Steve Jobs which highlights the Apple co-founder's past drug use and ability to "twist the truth"

FBI opens thorny Steve Jobs 1991 investigation file

FBI found myriad good, bad, indifferent opinions of the icon

Two SOPA post-mortems: one dead-on, one brain-dead

Former New York Times editor makes sense; head of the RIAA not so much

NeuroSky MindWave: Fun with Brainwaves

NASA wants green rocket fuel

NASA wants a green alternative to the ubiquitous hydrazine, but will it have enough money to develop it?

Another survey that shows vendors think you’re stupid

And don't get me started on the use of 'first' with 'annual'