Opinion

NASA: 19,500 mid-size asteroids around Earth, fewer than expected

NASA WISE satellite surveys space to objects heading toward Earth

How to Find Anything Under Linux

My collision with Andy Rooney’s ethical blind spot

He makes up stuff, as this tale from 20 years ago illustrates

10 excellent IT how-to videos

A good how-to video aimed at IT professionals is a rare and beautiful thing. Here are 10.

Robotic cockroach crawls out of the lab into real world

Octoroach, flying bug-like robots take shape at UC Berkeley

Swapping DSL modems, AT&T gets into the act

Cisco security advisory day

Lots of IOS holes to plug

Samsung to pay Microsoft royalties for Android

While some say this makes Google's Motorola acquisition useless, I argue that these Android agreements are more about semantics than technology.

Apple sends out invites for next-gen iPhone special event

As previously rumored, Apple's long-awaited iPhone event will take place on October 4th at Apple's campus in Cupertino

Science and religion can and do mix, mostly

Rice study shows only 15% of scientists at major US research universities see religion and science as always in conflict

Should MeeGo Stay or Should It Go Now?

HTML5-focused Tizen project will phaze out the promising MeeGo open source OS for mobile devices. MeeGo, we barely knew you!

Romance scams plague UK: 200,000 victims?

Romance scams are big in the US too as scammers pick on divorced, lovelorn

10Gen Rolls Out Free MongoDB Monitoring Service

SaaS based monitoring service available to all MongoDB users

FIB No. 2—Existence as a Service (Eaas)

Persistence Pays Off For Ray Kurzweil

Convergence – The “Final Frontier”

Report: Global data center energy use will rise nearly 20% next year

Vale Atque Ave

Goodbye, hello

Deni Connor leaving the Storage Alert Newsletter, moving on

The Long Tail Of Open Source

Why Commercial Companies Support Open Source Projects

OnStar feels the burn, reverses controversial privacy changes

OnStar said it would track customers even after they quit using service

Wireless, security researchers among early-career scientists recognized by Obama

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) goes to 94 men and women

VMware networking exec leaves VMware for OpenFlow startup Big Switch Networks: Here’s why

I had a chance to sit down with former VMware R&D director Howie Xu to discuss his transition to Big Switch Networks and his take on the future of networking.

Enterprises banking on UCC

Borders’ customers will have to opt-out after Barnes & Noble agrees to acquire database

Privacy concerns held up Borders intellectual property sale to Barnes & Noble

Test your memory: the wireless decade in review

NASA warns of geomagnetic storm after behemoth solar flare

NASA says geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma with latest blast

Google becomes a teenager

Doodle marks company’s 13th birthday

Journey’s end

So long and thanks for all the phish

To virtualize or not to virtualize? That is the question for ADCs

Virtual ADCs have their uses but the physical ADC is far from dead