Opinion

U.K. government could drop Microsoft for Linux

Out of tens of thousands of suggestions from public-sector employees, two ideas the government chose to highlight as representative suggest just that.

Microsoft can thank Apple for Windows 7 popularity

Developers fascinated by Windows 7 touch and multi-touch technology, survey finds

Microsoft goes through another small round of layoffs

The company gave the pink slip to an undisclosed number of employees, likely numbering in the hundreds.

Researchers tout new weapon in Internet censorship arms race

Georgia Tech School researchers will demo content hiding “ Collage” at next month’s Usenix security conference

RIM patent antagonist NTP sues Apple, Google, others over wireless email technology

The latest in a long list of legal targets

PowerPivot data is in the worksheet

PowerPivot data is actually in the worksheet

iPhone 4 “bursts into flames!” Probably the antenna.

Apple will promise software fix

Visibility service helps you manage BlackBerry devices

Droid X, iPhone drive data usage and pricing shifts

* Don't forget pricing when making comparisons

Carlyle taps MindTree for IT infrastructure management and support

* With an eye on process improvements, global investment firm turns from one managed service provider to another

Turning point for LDAP

* Unless improvements are made to LDAP, it may be time to move to a different protocol

VoIP provider emerges as alternative to Skype

* Nymgo's VoIP-based calling plans start as low as $0.004 per minute for U.S. calls, $0.013 for calls to India and $0.008 for calls to China

Ctera brings the cloud down scale

If the Model T were built today would it be open sourced? Qbo wants to be the Model T of Robots

Designing an open source robot that will serve as a catalyst to accelerate robotic evolution is the aim of Francisco Paz and The Corpora

Testing NAT64 and DNS64

Setting up an IPv6-only network with Ecdysis and surfing the IPv4-only Internet

Microsoft beefs up MS Office Docs.com Facebook app

Facebook users can now create Like pages with MS Office Docs.com

Awardees of the Imagine Cup 2010 Competition!

US R&D: 27 Million Workers; $11 trillion in sales

US faces challenges but National Science Foundation report finds scientific R&D employment, sales abundant

Microsoft to patch XP Help hole and four others on Tuesday

Crititcal patches requiring restart coming for all versions of Windows including Windows 7, WS2008 R2 and for Office

Military wants Holy Grail of secure encryption technology

Fully homomorphic encryption just one item on DARPA security wish list

Every Number Tells A Story

Without Communication, Analytics is Just a Bunch of Data

Cisco warns attendees that the Cisco Live database was hacked

Cisco says hack was quickly closed, but says some 'listings' were 'accessed'

Cisco Enters the Tablet Market

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President of Microsoft Int’l Jean-Philippe Courtois @ the Imagine Cup

The Imagine Cup 2010 Competition in Poland Finals!

The first casualty of cyberwar is semantics

Schneier addresses how words of “war” are producing dangerous collateral damage

IBM, EU partner on open source projects

The two projects aim to make government run more smoothly and businesses make better use of web-based services.

Internet2 taps Georgetown CIO as its chief

Georgetown's Dave Lambert takes Internet2 reins from Doug Van Houweling

Zenoss net management tool watches over Cisco UCS

The open source version of Zenoss doesn't support UCS, but the commercial version does.

Microsoft kills security updates, support for Windows 2000, XP Service Pack 2

Microsoft warns of “significant” security risk posed by unsupported products

60 GHz. – Watch All About It

I've developed a short video on one of the most important opportunities in wireless today - 60 GHz.