Opinion

Microsoft Unveils the Windows Store for Apps

Details emerge on Microsoft's answer to the App Store, and developers should be happy.

Alec Baldwin kicked off flight for playing “Words With Friends” on his iPhone

30 Rock star Alec Baldwin was removed from an American Airlines flight on Tuesday after refusing to stop playing "Words With Friends" on his iPhone.

Cisco flying into the clouds

Recent moves, comments show aggressive moves to position itself for IT's future

Webinar Next Week: Getting Cellular Offload Right

The future of cellular is now inextricably bound to Wi-Fi. A Webinar next week will explore this reality in detail.

HPCC, Now Available On Public, Private And Every Cloud In Between

LexisNexis Hadoop Alternative Wants To Be Your Big Data Solution

Blazemeter Brings Load and Performance Testing To The Cloud

SaaS based offering based on open source Jmeter project

ChatTime mobile app offers low-cost long-distance calling

Get Out of the Data Center Business

One IT executive's experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Techiest viral videos: Stars Wars/Cello Wars, Atari band, Japanese Robot Girlfriend and see-through screens

What did I just see Darth Vadar playing?

NASA: Solar flares tear off tons of moon, Mars surface

NASA says 10 dump truck loads of lunar surface can get blown away from a strong solar blast

DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program

DARPA program wants to make rapid advances in sensor networking

Windows 8 Beta by February, Gold by Summer?

One site claims the beta won't make it for CES but is coming soon.

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Apple’s US quest for preliminary injunction against Samsung comes up short

Judge Lucy Koh last Friday denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against a slew of Samsung products

Scientists spot two gargantuan black holes with masses 10 billion times our Sun

Astronomers say the newly discovered black holes are far bigger than any discovered in space so far

NASA confirms first planet in habitable zone

NASA Kepler spots “milestone on the road to finding Earth's twin”

India’s censors have asked the impossible of Facebook, Google

And yet they’re about to ask again

Energy Star Equivalent Needed for Application Bandwidth Consumption

It’s time to address content provider-generated bandwidth demand

Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx

After Opening Buzz, What Do New Cisco Jabber & WebEx Improvements Mean For You?

ROBOs Present Golden Opportunity for Desktop Virtualization

ESG Research on desktop virtualization and remote and branch offices

IPS: Best of breed or integrated solution?

How stupid can cell carriers be? Really Stupid.

Millions of smartphones have secret rootkits embedded on them. Gibbs thinks this is a bit of a problem.

Don’t expect Woz to bid on this Apple contract

The Real Value of the TV White Spaces

A conference session yesterday led me (and I think most in the audience) to the conclusion that applications for the White Spaces are real, and markets should develop – although one big potential showstopper remains on the horizon. But their real val

Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report

Dell'Oro's first "beyond 10G" review finds IBM leading overall, with Extreme and Dell filling out Q3

DARPA awards $50,000 mystery shredded document prize

The “All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S” team figured out the 5 shredded puzzles

Cell Phone “butt-calling” a pain in the arse for police

Vast majority of accidental 911 cell phone calls are butt dials

Maybe you can trash your boss online after all

Still not recommended, but 1935 law may provide some protections

More enterprises willing to adopt mobile-only communications: study

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