Opinion

SONY dumps its PC biz — TWITTER rocked by slow user growth — Everybody loves INDIAN CEOs — AOL saw $157M in Q4, from DIAL-UP

Big carriers go political to kill local broadband

Major telcos are afraid that locally owned FTTH deployments will cut into their fat profits, so they seek to cripple competitors

Wozniak to Apple: Consider building an Android phone

Apple's co-founder laments BlackBerry's fall and has harsh words for Microsoft and the NSA

Android will power the Internet of things

Java has been pushed as the on-ramp to the Internet of things, but Android will make IoT into more than just a buzzword for most people

The dirty truth about big data and NoSQL

You thought big data was exclusive to social media empires and search engines? Think again

Microsoft is saved! But the CEO sweepstakes rage on

Microsoft has nabbed Satya Nadella, but Amazon, Apple, Uber, and others can still get in on prime C-suite talent

Dell ARMs itself with new proof-of-concept 64-bit ‘microserver’

Dell offers prototype ARM-based 64-bit server for private testing to 'select customers,' but actual data center use is still a long way off

BrandPost: Now is the time to upgrade to Windows 8

3 reasons for making the move

Honeymoon for NADELLA, Enterprise Man — Beware of, fix FLASH exploit — iPHONE’s US smartphone share 42% — EU commands GOOGLE to heel

What took Microsoft’s board so long to choose a CEO?

As Nadella and Thompson take over Microsoft's reins, you have to wonder: Why did it take the board six months to find them?

5 free Windows Server tools you should know about

These hidden gems can be real life-savers for IT admins

Plea to IT: Don’t mess with my monitor

A techie is assigned a routine job: Swap in new monitors — but ends up spelling out more computer basics than expected

Why open source will rule the data center

According to Michael Bushong of networking startup Plexxi, three commonly occurring conditions ensure that open source software will steadily widen its data center footprint

Tech CFOs predict a wave of M&A in 2014

CFOs believe mergers and acquisitions in tech will continue throughout the year, according to a new survey, with IP and patents being a big target

OpenDaylight debuts Hydrogen SDN software

First version of open source SDN/NFV software debuts amid debate about OpenDaylight's aims, Cisco's participation in the project

NADELLA to lead Microsoft without GATES — FACEBOOK aTwitter over ‘Paper’ — APPLE’s content delivery network — CHROMECAST SDK ports apps to TV

Developers’ wish list for iOS 8

Suggested features for the next iPhone and iPad OS range from diagnostic data to parental controls to leaving things almost as is

Malware hides behind JavaScript, PNGs to bypass browser security

Web attack uses malware encoded as images and delivered through iframe injection in a way that escapes easy detection

IBM vs. Amazon Web Services: Don’t be fooled by their numbers game

The revenue data for both companies can be used to claim each the 'winner' in the cloud wars

Interview with Woz: To innovate, get personal

The Apple co-founder explains why being human is key to good tech and why technology alone won't fix our schools

The future of mobile is stupid, futile — and irresistible

Flammable iPhones, LG's honking curved screens, Scentee's aromatherapy tech: Rest assured, we'll eat them all up

Video: How Google backs up the Internet

You think your company's backup needs are challenging? Google has an World Wide Web-sized backup plan

Who writes Linux? Corporations, more than ever

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers

FACEBOOK’s Super Bowl tweets more fun than game — Lots of talk about WHISPER — Hints of TWITTER commerce emerge — Secret to happiness in SEATTLE

Forrester: HTML5 apps still not as good as native apps

Forrester report shows HTML5 and mobile frameworks are useful tools for mobile apps, but also notes HTML5's limitations

VMware plays up network virtualization momentum in 2014

VMware NSX is in use by several major global brands, along with three of the top five investment banks

Windows 8.1 Update 1 leaks — to widespread yawns

Three-week-old version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 will leave you shaking your head; fortunately, another version awaits

Windows XP rules, at Windows 7 and 8’s expense

Internet usage for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 stagnate between December and January, even as XP's share grew

12 predictions for the future of programming

Big fines for big breaches: The only way to stop shoddy security

Companies that profit from data collection should be held financially accountable when they fail to secure what they store

Watch the utter destruction of hard drives holding Snowden’s data

In newly released footage, computer equipment belonging to the Guardian is destroyed by order of the U.K. government

Prepare for the cloud data explosion

As core enterprise data disperses into the cloud, it will need industrial-strength integration platforms to keep it cleansed and synchronized

Happy privacy news even paranoids could love

Perk up, buttercup — the Blackphone and MIT researchers offer glimmers of hope amid our NSA- and hack-filled landscape

SequenceL language takes the pain out of multicore coding

Project eliminates many steps in multicore programming, allowing developers to write to C++ and automatically distribute to any number of cores

GitHub bug bounties: Smaller, more focused is better

GitHub offers rewards to researchers who find vulnerabilities in its products, limiting the program's focus to ensure its effectiveness

Web technologies that deserve to die

It's time to bring the HTTPSession Weberthals to extinction

Nadella in, Gates out @MICROSOFT — GOOGLE stumbles, splits — AMAZON forced to raise Prime price — BOX sneaks IPO filing — Reset YAHOO email password!

The case against Nadella as Microsoft’s next CEO

With everybody announcing definitively that Satya Nadella will be the next Microsoft CEO, it's time for a little devil's advocacy

Leaked screenshots show changes coming in Windows 8.1 GDR 1

Russian Windows site Wzor posts screenshots of some small but very welcome changes in the Windows 8.1 tweak, due March 11

California threatens code boot camps with the boot

Regulators are cracking down on programming boot camps, saying some need to be licensed like other institutes of learning

How Google sold Motorola at a loss and came out ahead

If you include all the lines in the balance sheet and take into account all the patents retained, Google's deal with Lenovo is brilliant

Take it from Facebook and Microsoft: The future of hardware is open

Microsoft backs Facebook's Open Compute Project, embracing open source hardware and one-upping secretive Amazon

What it takes to build a cloud organization in 2014

Change happens slowly in IT, and that's not a bad thing

Web technologies that deserve to die

Spring WebFlow, Seam, WebBeans, and related beasts must meet their extinction. Who thought evermore client state on the server was a grand idea anyway?

BrandPost: Is there room in your stable for Windows 7 and 8?

Why a hybrid approach could give you the best of both worlds

Pwned and played: Big Brother is toying with our privacy

The spooks hit World of Warcraft; now they're infiltrating Angry Birds and sullying good Smurf names. Is nothing sacred?

LibreOffice 4.2 better bridges the gap with Microsoft Office

Improved Office compatibility, OpenCL-powered spreadsheet math, and more features round out latest update of the open source productivity suite

Java’s encrypted communications no panacea for security problems

Transport Layer Security will be turned on in an upcoming Java release, due in mid-March

GOOGLE sells Motorola, keeps patents — FACEBOOK grabs mobile crown — MICROSOFT eyes Nadella for CEO — ELLISON: IBM, SAP no longer threats

The feds’ data center debacle makes HealthCare.gov look good

A government effort to reduce its data centers had the opposite effect, and no heads rolled. Time is running out to fix federal IT