Opinion

Barnes & Noble Blows The Lid Off Microsoft’s Android Patent Squeeze

Nook maker says Microsoft's "trivial" and "invalid" patents stifle open source innovation

Assessment of FCC’s “Measuring Broadband America” Test Methodology

NetForecast suggests methodology improvements

10 petaflop Japanese supercomputer world’s fastest

Gigabit Ethernet is still the most-used system interconnect technology amongst supercomputers

Microsoft to move to license-by-core for SQL Server 2012

Microsoft breaks vow to never license by core and will now charge for server cores much like they were processors. Here's the details.

Microsoft has no plans to fix months old Office 2010/WP7 sync bug

Outlook 2010 64-bit is not a supported version for Windows Phone 7 and trying to sync between them could wipe out your data.

Microsoft and Duke Partner to Find Media Fakery

If you've ever thought "this looks shopped" Microsoft has a fix for you.

Shipping-related spam rises as holidays near

According to no less of an authority than our IT department

Extending Vim with Scripting

FCC’s “Measuring Broadband America” Report Tells Only Half the Story

It’s time to look at demand for Internet bandwidth

The Pros and Cons of a Cloud-Based Firewall

Verisign Masters of Internet Infrastructure

Ericsson predicts tenfold mobile data traffic growth by 2016

Deploy a Private PaaS to Get the Best for Your Enterprise Cloud

OpenStack, Cloud Builders And The Future Of The Cloud

Public, Private or Hybrid, OpenStack wants to be your cloud platform of choice

iPhone 4S battery problems be gone! Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 update

Apple on Thursday released iOS 5.0.1, an update that aims to cure poor battery life on the iPhone 4S

Net neutrality rules and the FCC’s huge mistake

Emailing tips for ensuring delivery of legitimate high-volume campaigns

Parody page on Google+ looks to have been wakeup call for BoA

Bank of America now has an official Google+ Page

Windows Comes to the Mainframe Mountain

What better way to consolidate your Windows servers than put them on some big iron?

Cisco girds for Huawei’s US entry

After a solid Q1 and a successful turnaround, more competition on the way

Bank of America’s absence on Google+ filled by parody page

UPDATED: The Internet abhors a vaccuum

Microsoft contributes GPL’d code to old enemy Samba project

Samba once caused the European union to fine Microsoft billions but that's no concern for Microsoft today.

Google Code-in 2011 Contest Gears Up

Google unveils the 18 open source organizations participating in contest for teens.

DARPA to detail program that radically alters security authentication techniques

DARPA wants technology that jumps beyond strong password protection

US snapshot of broadband world finds disparity and dial-up

Census data points to increased broadband use, but social, economic differences exist

Techniques for Prolonging the Lifespan of IPv4

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back and may you outlive IPv4

Flash Is Dead, Somewhere Steve Jobs Is Smiling

Adobe's move away from Flash vindicates Job's view

Meme-mania: The Musical, plus this week’s other geekiest videos

Piloting a Drone with an iPhone, Attack of the Giant Windows Phone, Zuck meets Rose & Why Apple Got Mad

FBI takes out $14M DNS malware operation

NASA computers amongst 4 million infected by DNS-based malware scam

Yahoo puts an exclamation point on the real story

Company publicly downplays ‘speculation,’ yet punctuation mark sings different tune

Microsoft Isn’t Apple: Redmond OKs Windows Phone 7 Jailbreak Tool

Unapproved code can now be loaded onto Windows Phone 7-Based Devices, With Microsoft' Blessing