Opinion

How HTC’s new RE camera and Eye smartphone will compete

Breaking with its tradition of announcing smartphone hardware, HTC launched the RE handheld camera and the HTC Eye smartphone, that compares to the HTC One M8 like the iPhone 5C compares to the 5S.

Who’s to blame for Snapchat’s massive nude photo leak?

It didn't take long for the finger-pointing to start after photos and images of more than 200,000 Snapchat users were leaked to the web this week.

HTC wants you to edit videos and take better selfies

The Zoe short automated video editor and cloud service is HTC’s chance at creating an ongoing ecosystem that engages all smartphone users.

First Nadella: Women shouldn’t ask for raises. Second Nadella: Yes they should

Apple sends out invites for Oct 16 special event

Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks

Annual pattern of revamps and staff reductions see senior leaders exit on their own, or with help

Amazon to open a store – but its cloud already has one

Earlier this month Amazon Web Services opened a “loft” in San Francisco

How satellite loops could store data – or not

If you placed a satellite a light-year from earth, could you use the data stream to store data? A brace of Reddit users have discussed the matter and come up with an answer.

iPhone 6 Plus: Just in time for some very cool Halloween costumes

DigitalDudz outdoes itself with these easy techie Halloween costumes

Microsoft to beef up its cloud partner strategy

Marketplaces have become a focal point for the big cloud vendors to increase their IaaS

FTC slams maker of WordSmart — touted by Alex Trebek — for ripping off parents

AT&T jabs Verizon for Redbox Instant failure, but misses on net neutrality

An AT&T exec tried to frame a recent Verizon loss as a knock against net neutrality, but he only succeeded in kicking Verizon while it's down.

Gartner: The super-smart drone in the corner office

Smart machines, drones, automation impact IT of the future

NetBeez is busy as a bee monitoring networks from an end user perspective

Traditional network monitoring primarily looks at the health and status of major net components. That's not enough to tell a story when an end user in a remote location contacts the help desk with a connectivity or application availability issue.

Microsoft and the Windows Phone

Is Lack of Self-Confidence Becoming a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

After iOS 8’s glitches, Apple might want to rethink its update strategy

Facebook and Android’s approach to software releases isn’t as fast or pervasive as Apple’s, but these companies aren’t at risk from a PR storm from a massive rollout of a buggy update.

Guess how many U.S. lawmakers have a Windows Phone?

No, the Windows 10 preview’s keylogger will not steal your bank information

Word hit last week that the beta for Winodws 10 had a keylogger built in and the web went nuts. Understandable, but also wrong.

Eric Schmidt takes jab at Apple and Tim Cook over privacy

How the Hong Kong protests can impact the Internet of Things

FireChat, the communication app of choice among Hong Kong protesters, is shedding light on mesh networking's potential benefit for the Internet of Things.

AT&T and Blue Jeans Network Partner on Video Collaboration Offer

Service includes new enhanced accessibility for customers with disabilities.

Gartner: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 IT can’t ignore

Rise of smart machines, ubiquitous access and software-defined architectures will reshape IT, Gartner says

Gartner: IT careers – what’s hot?

Do you know smart machines, robotics and risk analysis? Gartner says you should

The Internet is one step closer to universal HTTPs

EFF applauds CloudFlare CDN for rolling out universal HTTPs

Refreshing honesty about the necessity of lying in job interviews

Security flaw search engine Shodan adds reports

Shodan, a search engine, trawls the Internet for connected devices. Newly-added reports, along with mapping, can help identify and visualize security vulnerabilities.

Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN

Historically, "difficult to use" and "Cisco" have gone hand in hand. Cisco's new iWAN is an effort to get away from that.

Unix: How to select every 1,000th line from a file

Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here's a simple way to pluck out every Nth line.

The Linux Desktop-a-week review: Cinnamon

I tried using a desktop I've long considered a waste of time, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Highfive wants to become the Nest of B2B video conferencing

Conference calls are notoriously unproductive, and one company wants to fix that with simple videoconferencing.