Opinion

2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

Windows 8’s Reset and Refresh Technologies

With Windows 8, Microsoft aims to eliminate long, tedious OS reinstallations with new Reset and Refresh features that can apparently repair a system in minutes.

Windows 8 Gains Storage Intelligence With Storage Spaces

Now you can mix and match storage devices and see them as a single image in Windows 8.

NASA set for Mars-bound spacecraft’s biggest thruster blast

NASA firing Mars Laboratory's main thrusters on Jan. 11 for trajectory correction to Red Planet

Cloud is Really a Service Disguised as a Solution

Cloud is not a solution -- it's a set of services, education, and training

Brits lambaste Ticketmaster over botched Olympics sale

Organizing committee tosses Ticketmaster under the bus, too

EPA wants your environment pictures, issues public photo challenge

Latest government crowd-source project: EPA looks to document environmental problems, challenges and beauty

Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations

From Zero to Drupal in 30 Minutes

Developers top IT hiring managers’ wish lists

Help wanted: Java developers, software developers/engineers, mobile developers, and .Net developers are in demand

Smartphone/stun gun ranks as one of TSA’s top finds for 2011

Undeclared firearms, inert landmines also grab TSA's attention during airport screenings

A milestone for xkcd: 1,000 comics

Popular Web strip for geeks continues to entertain

One way the iPhone 4S dwarfs the iPhone 4

At least in the hands of a power user

Using Handsets While Driving: A Tale of Two Solutions

Maybe an outright ban on using handsets while driving isn’t quite to your liking. Two alternatives illustrate the complexity of the debate.

When Open Source Doesn’t Do It Anymore

CouchDB founder moves away from Apache model

Thick Martian dust makes NASA pick sunnier locale for Mars rover

Mars rover Opportunity will celebrate its eight year on Red Planet this month

Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending

Gartner lowers earlier 2012 forecast by 1% but it and Piper Jaffrey see an uptick from 2011

Ray Ozzie’s latest tune: That’s Cocomo with a ‘C’

So far all we know is that it has produced a earworm

Dept. of Energy developing project to reinforce grid cybersecurity

DOE, White House, Department of Homeland Security and key utility companies to develop security model for grid by summer

Social engineering attacks on the enterprise are trending upward

Microsoft patch blows ‘perfect game’ but sends important message

How can Microsoft's only unscheduled patch of 2011 help predict its security success in 2012?

Who’s lying? The iPad owner or the border guard?

Canadian man refutes border agency's explanation for having let him cross

.11ac on the Move – Broadcom’s Big Announcement

2012 is going to be a huge year for 802.11ac, with, as is becoming the norm for wireless LANs, lots of products well in advance of the standard.

NASA Expands Open Source Activities

On January 4, 2012, NASA launched code.nasa.gov, a new website dedicated to helping the organization unify and expand its open source activities.

A quick video preview of what’s upcoming at CES

And a question about the gadget show’s mojo

Kids flip for Cisco’s discontinued Flip

Granted, in this case the price was right

Kicking Back with Clementine 1.0

The Amarok-inspired music player adds Spotify, Grooveshark, and SKY.fm support and squashes a bunch of bugs.

Throw a cURL at Your Web Work

Cisco nemesis facing a mixed quarter?

Juniper's enterprise business tracking in-line, while carrier business may face lingering challenges

NASA on 2012: It’s really NOT the end of the world as we know it

NASA says there’s nothing lurking out there that will destroy the planet in 2012