Opinion

The real difference between the Waldorf and a Hilton

And a fine example of how the rich view the world differently

IBM Watson computer to play $1M game against Jeopardy! Champs

IBM Watson natural language computer to take on Jeopardy! Quiz show’s two most prolific past winners -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter

Darth Vader gets a laugh out of Gawker hack

Who knew a Dark Lord of the Sith could be this amusing?

What’s the buzz about Microsoft’s Service Manager product?

Service Manager 2010 rounds out Microsoft's System Center offering

Touchgraph; How to visualize anything

Mobile data to have its day in 2011

Growing pains ahead for wireless wide-area network ecosystem

Taking stock of our 2010 predictions

All in all, a pretty good scorecard

Complex event processing comes to cloud management

Nastel aims to prevent and predict performance problems with cloud-based applications

Directory services still evolving

Cisco helps fuel “record” Q3 in edge routers

Revenue up 29% from last year; Alcatel-Lucent switches No. 2 places with Juniper again.

Microsoft patent bribes people to watch TV ads

Ad incentive technology and foot-controlled PCs are among a handful of interesting new Microsoft patents

Casual Xbox Live gaming on Windows Phone 7 is tough for independent developers

Developer calls for changes to unleash creativity and compete with Apple's GameCenter.

Why Mozilla doesn’t back Free Flash players

Mozilla: Even a FOSS Flash player doesn't make Flash open

FEC puts on hold a call to allow texting of political contributions

CTIA initiative stymied, but likely to reappear with additional safeguards

Cooking The Sauce for Cloud Based Open Source Testing

Browser and Mobile Comparability Testing Can Tax Resources, Sauce Labs Can Help

Gmail users unexpectedly spend a weekend without e-mail

Google fixes problem that delayed messages for several days

iPad 2 on track for early 2011 launch; rumored upgrades include rear/front facing cameras, retina display, and SD card slot

Navy’s electromagnetic railgun pumps out world record blast

Electromagnetic railgun fires off a mach 5 shot

How Do Mobile versus PC Browsing Experiences Compare?

Mobile browser user experience is unacceptable

It’s Time to Take Another Look at H.264 SVC

UC

Acai Berry spam attack on Twitter linked to Gawker hack

Hundreds of thousands of Gawker users see account info compromised

Freedom of speech vs. monomaniacs and spammers

Imposing moderation and ending anonymity

Cisco’s most recent acquisition gains it network management

What’s faster, PCIe or 6Gb SAS?

Goodbye Internet, we hardly knew ye?

The Internet, as we once knew it, will be under renewed attack next year

It’s two, two, two phones in one

Virtualized dual-profile phone coming from LG, VMware

Need a virtual server tune-up in 2011?

Veloxum for VMware could help boost utilization while dropping your TCO

IPv4 Reputation Filtering Not a Long-Term Solution

As carriers deploy Large Scale NAT (LSN) reputation filtering will lose its effectiveness

Once “explained,” ancient “computer” unfolds new mysteries

New theories, Lego model shed new light on the Antikythera Mechanism

Attacking ‘The Blob’ in SharePoint 2010

Study: StorSimple compression improves SharePoint capacity