Opinion

Was Twitpic founder’s arrest tale a naked fabrication?

Noah Everett's Twitter account of being pinched while in the buff called into question

Buying a Linux Machine – Where to Shop?

Traversing the Maze of Linux Hardware Providers

NASA: Commercial space projects heating up

NASA’s projects with Boeing, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada moving along

Impersonator, a different kind of virtualization

Will The Real Hadoop Company Please Stand Up

How many elephants can we fit in the Hadoop room?

At $750, Cisco Cius Android tablet priced more than an iPad

Cius will ship worldwide on July 31 but its $750 price does not include the docking station

Share Files Easily with ProFTPD

What Microsoft paid The Stones to help launch Windows 95

Deal to use 'Start Me Up' wasn’t as lucrative as first reported

Apple begins offering refunds for unhappy Final Cut Pro X customers

Highlighting the sheer volume of negative responses to FCP X, Apple recently began offering refunds to dissatisfied customers

Apple Exposes Limitations of the Cloud

Sprint news item

System performance no game to IGN Entertainment

Relies on New Relic application performance management SaaS to keep its website humming

Don’t MISs Bidgoli’s Second Edition: Even Better

The case for using hosted/cloud VoIP and UC

Quantum launches Web site to rate backup effectiveness

What's your backup score?

The End Of Open Source Affirmative Action

Companies not using open source as a "identifying differentiator" is a good thing

Facebook restores access and uploaded photos for KDE apps

KDE whacked with automated banhammer in the name of "positive user experiences"

Is Mozilla’s Life Cycle Haste Microsoft’s Gain?

Change-averse IT shops are not going to greet a new version of a piece of software every three months with open arms. Will this stop IE's slide?

Envisioning a More Perfect Windows 2012

Microsoft has everyone distracted with what Windows 8 might be, but behind the scenes, a new version of Windows Server editions might be arriving. This is my fanciful, non-fact-based look

Tips on SIP trunking and managing virtual performance

iPhone 5 rumored to come with Dual-LED flash

A report surfaced last week relaying that the iPhone 5 will sport a dual-LED Flash. Such a feature will help produce brighter photographs thanks to more expansive lighting which should obviously help the iPhone be a more useful camera in low light co

Saving on taxes the Cisco way

Company saved $7 billion since 2005 by stashing profits in two European subsidiaries

IBM exposes top future networked healthcare devices

IBM study looks at new networked healthcare devices, applications

In search of the most tortured cloud computing images out there

News outfits, vendors, others compelled to use colorful cloud imagery whenever discussing cloud computing

NASA offers Twitter followers a space shuttle simulation run during Atlantis’ final mission

NASA space shuttle tweet-up to include a “test-run” during space shuttle’s last mission ever

Volume of data darn near indescribable … without the iPad

EMC-sponsored study by IDC pegs 'digital universe' at unfathomable 1.8 zettabytes

The ins and outs of spectrum analysis, part 2

Hardware vs. software: does it matter?

More on biometrics

DOTGO, texting meets Web

Facebook bans KDE application, deletes user photos

KDE users burned by Facebook

Half the world’s data is stored in hard drives

Between 1986 and 2007 the world tucked away 295 exabytes of data, mostly on hard drives