Opinion

Two weeks with Ubuntu instead of Windows 7: Linux is great, Unity needs work

I've completed my two-week tour of duty using Ubuntu 11.10 and my feelings are mixed.

LibreOffice Templates and Extensions Repository Now Online

Are you ready to jazz up your files and extend the features in your open source office suite? LibreOffice announces its new template and extensions repository.

Debate over BART cell shut-down isn’t really about safety

Transit officials have been struggling to finalize a policy

Can humans alter climate change?

Researchers might be able to impact solar radiation effects but not for years

How to prevent IT talent-poaching

'Thank you' goes a long way; competitive pay helps, too

CISO members of Wisegate share best practices for GRC, SIEM and IAM

Automatic CentOS 6.0 Installation With Kickstart

iPhone 4s or iPhone 4 Jailbreak

Which would you pick?

Competitive providers invest in infrastructure and acquisitions

Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy

Dueling white papers from the Linux Foundation and Canonical/Red Hat demand PC OEMs give control to PC owners. The LF offers technical guidance; Red Hat/Canonical, condemnation.

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