Opinion

Cisco, AT&T offer Wi-Fi IPTV

Products designed to cut TV wires in the home, broaden Videoscape plan

Carriers Must Carry – Even Stuff They Don’t Like

A recent situation brings an ugly carrier behavior to light once again – picking and choosing what to carry. This kind of nonsense should be illegal.

Libguestfs 1.14 Rolls Out

New tools help users analyze and fix alignment problems in guests.

Cisco ASA Upgrade Adds Identity Firewalling

User and group based policies

Want a raise? 11 IT jobs set for 6%-9% pay hikes in 2012

If you've got mobility, data analysis, security or collaboration skills, a pay raise might be in your future

DARPA offers $50,000 prize if you can figure out these shredded puzzles

DARPA Shredder Challenge looking for innovative problem solvers

Google getting into the bicycle business, too?

Who knows what they'll get into next

History of malware: from script kiddies to rootkits

A scary look at how much more dangerous malware has become since the 1970s.

jQuery and Ajax Error Detection and Handling

FAA goes to the Web to fight lasers directed at aircraft battle

FAA says incident of lasers being pointed at aircraft has hit 2,795 already this year

Security as a Service – What’s Inside Counts

Verisign Masters of Internet Infrastructure

Replay of CVOICE – Digital Voice Ports Webcast

This video is a replay of a webcast I did for Pearson IT Certification back in September.

Looks like new Nokia phones will include Lync Mobile app

Nokia Lumia 800 includes beta Lync Mobile for Windows app, yet video isn't supported

NASA: “Interplanetary bogeyman” comet Elenin is no more; it’s an ex-comet

NASA showed unusual contempt for those doom and gloomers who attached way more meaning to comet Elenin passing

New Nokia phone name, Lumia, means ‘prostitute’ in Spanish

Latest technology linked to world's oldest profession

Six Essential Drupal Modules for Business

US to fund aggressive technology that cuts solar power costs 75%

In 10 years, the Department of Energy wants to get to solar power costs down to 6¢/kWh from current 21¢/kWh

MIT signs deal to build research university in Russia

‘We hope to create on the European scale something similar to MIT’

Nokia’s strong start for its Windows Phone handsets

Focuses on craftsmanship, "contextual knowledge," and the "next billion" users

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner sells $1.7 million worth of Microsoft shares

Soon, Microsoft shareholders will get another say-on-pay vote

Consumer devices to get more support for using Linux

Hitachi, LG, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba join forces to create, maintain kernel for consumer electronics

IBM names Virginia Rometty president and CEO

IBM's Sam Palmisano to stay on as chairman.

Open Source: You Know, For Kids!

Seven practical reasons to teach children about open source

Air Force wants to understand impact of automated systems the human psyche

Air Force wants studies impact of human reliance on autonomous systems

Everything Should Be Secret

Meru’s announcement of secure guest access yesterday got me to thinking– why have we become so cavalier about information security? Why isn’t everything secret by default?

Mitel and Vonage upgrade their portfolios

Happy Tenth Birthday, Windows XP. Now Please Die

You were badly needed and came along at a time of great challenge and adversity and performed well for many years. But now it's time for you to go.

Why Windows 8 is Microsoft’s ‘Apple-like’ Slippery Slope

Microsoft hasn't exactly besmirched Windows 7, but is going to lengths to show contempt for the status quo

Host Your Own Video with Flowplayer

After the iPod, ex-Apple engineers built world’s coolest thermostat

Apple, Google workers build smartphone controlled, WiFi enabled thermostat