Opinion

Computer factories eat way more energy than running the devices they build

Study finds 70% of the energy a typical laptop will consume during its life span is used in manufacturing the computer

What Would You Do With 2500 Android Phones? 25000? Bug Labs Wants To See

Open source modular hardware could allow anyone to be a cellphone maker

Talk of Web access as ‘a right’ leads down wrong path

Comment by Tim Berners-Lee sparks discussion that seems unnecessary

Improved mouse control for users with disabilities

Data Loss Prevention: Less Flip this Week

Data leak prevention features and vendors.

Did You Hear The One About The Hacker Who Stole The Open Source Code?

It may sound like a joke, but someone stole the WordPress code

FBI, DoJ bomb Coreflood botnet

FBI, DOJ say Coreflood has infected 2 million computers worldwide

Security fragmentation needs to end

The Sky is Clear

Open Source Takover of the Cloud

Bringing technical standards to the Middle East since 1963

Another reminder that acronyms are a foreign language to many

Microsoft shows off IE9’s HTML5 chops on Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 "Mango" update coming this fall

Sleeping air traffic controllers get federal wake-up call

Five sleeping air traffic controller incidents get Feds to bring in more controllers at 27 airports

Twitter killer in the works?

VC Bill Gross' UberMedia said to be working on back-up plan -- an alternative to Twitter -- just in case the microblogging site keeps giving it a hard time

DARPA’s new telescope could see the aliens on Mars

DARPA-developed Space Surveillance Telescope is supposed to see objects in deep space like no ground-based system before it

Six public relations lessons for open source projects

What we learned about open source PR at the Linux Foundation Collab Summit

Apple looking to take on Netflix?

With Apple's data center in North Carolina about to open up, rumor has it that Apple may be looking to launch its own video subscription service

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager makes Gartner “Magic Quadrant”

December 2010 report by Gartner puts Operations Manager 2007 R2 in highly sought spot

From best-in-class virtualization management to highly automated, optimized data centers

Aberdeen report outlines four steps to virtualization management success

UC management solution demand grows

UC

Epsilon breach: When should almost public info be private?

Breach at Epsilon Data Management exposed lots of email addresses - is that important?

Vaporizing communications: Splitting the message

Personal cloud-based storage and the corporate net

Huawei Symantec rolls out mid-range arrays

Cisco Unity Connection features and the buffet

Connection features – what do you need?

No Beefy Miracle for Fedora

Results are in for Fedora 16 release name

Did Google lie about FISMA? … Lie is such an ugly word

Updated: GSA statement would appear to give Google a bit of wiggle room

Why didn’t Cisco attempt to sell the Flip unit?

Firing 550 employees making a best-selling product isn't the way to woo Wall Street

How do “experts” use FOSS Documentation?

Survey looks to understand how FOSS developers use documentation

Fluke’s AirCheck Handheld Wi-Fi Analysis Tool: Network Techs are Gonna Love This One

There are a number of great Wi-Fi analysis tools that run on notebooks; I know, I’ve used them all. But the latest update to Fluke’s very cool AirCheck puts a lot of power into a form factor that’s just what network techs want.

VMware Releases Cloud Foundry To Set The PaaS Cloud Free

Open source cloud development kit seeks to end Google/Microsoft Paas Hegemony