Opinion

Lenovo saved the IBM PC, but can it save the Motorola smartphone?

Lenovo acquires Motorola from Google to try to rehab another former tech icon gone bust

Cognitive computing can take the semantic Web to the next level

As big data analytics pushes deeper into cognitive computing, it needs to bring the semantic Web into the heart of this new age

4 ways the Open Compute Project will impact hardware design

Facebook's Open Compute Project could have broad influences, beneficial and baneful, on data center hardware

Preview: See the Aaron Swartz few people knew

The documentary, which premiered at Sundance last week, traces Swartz's life, work, ideology, and tragic demise

Dell’s Cloud Connect thin client provides business Android on a stick

Wyse Cloud Connect thin client deploys Android for enterprise, but real competition is tablets and smartphones, not PC-on-a-stick rivals

Java memory model takes small step toward modernization

Revisions to the Java Memory Model focusing on concurrency would be the first since 2004

YAHOO hit by lagging ad revs, Alibaba — APPLE turns to Enterprise, AppleTV — FACEBOOK’s open infrastructure — The sad story of @N

MSVCR80.dll errors and other problems plague iTunes 11.1.14 on Windows

Windows-based iTunes customers report problems with the latest update, and solving the issues can be a complex process

Book smart, security stupid: Rogue professors flunk Security 101

Two academics betray highly ill-advised security practices when using the university's computer network

Open Compute pushes GPL-like license for ‘open source hardware’

Facebook's open hardware effort adopts 'prescriptive' license requiring altered designs to be contributed back to foundation when sold

Hyper-V ‘escape attack,’ part 2: The mystery deepens

The roots of the Hyper-V hack are revealed — and serve as a reminder to stick to best practices

SDN success in the real world

You've heard the SDN hype, but where's the benefit? According to Andrew Warfield of Coho Storage, it's in the applications, and he has an example to prove it

BrandPost: Behold! The Start button!

What was old is new again in Windows 8.1

Broadband speeds and adoption are up — but so are attacks

Akamai's latest 'State of the Internet' report shows steady rise in broadband adoption and speeds, IPv6 usage — and DDoS attacks

Wall Street pushing APPLE to phablet — NSA likes Angry Birds — BITCOIN exec charged with money-laundering — 2013: 1B smartphones served

It’s your data, dummy: Make every day Data Privacy Day

Even in these dark digital times, data privacy matters. These five basic rules can help keep you safer in the murky online world

What’s next on Google’s kill list? Signs point to Google Code

Google's code hosting site is ripe for shutdown, long eclipsed by the likes of GitHub for features and popularity

How to ruin the Internet of things: Tie up with a carrier

It's bad enough that a smartphone is tied to a specific network. Imagine what happens if your car, fridge, alarm, or other long-lived equipment is

What being cloud-native really means

Enterprises are building apps for the cloud that don't really use the cloud as they should. Here's how to fix that

The great escape: How the NSA is driving companies out of U.S. clouds

Europeans may leave U.S. cloud companies even faster after most recent espionage revelations, but where they could go is a tough question

FreeBSD 10 introduces brand-new virtualization platform

The Bhyve BSD hypervisor is legacy-free, with a small footprint, but offers a number of features out of the gate

Microsoft keeps chipping away at Windows XP’s end-of-life deadline

Amid the backpedaling on security updates, will Microsoft stick to its April 8 deadline, or is July 2015 the new XP cut-off date?

Microsoft targeted in phishing attack, likely by Syrian Electronic Army — again

With all the talk of safe computing, Microsoft's having a hard time getting its own employees to batten down the hatches

The state of digital freedom in 2014

In 2013 we learned in detail how our digital freedoms were violated. That awareness holds promise for a brighter year ahead, and open source plays a crucial role

Microsoft pushes Windows Embedded for the Internet of things

Microsoft is pitching its 15-year-old OS as a central hub for connected devices, services, and data

Mobile devices could open doors for VDI, despite PC slump

Though PC sales are in undisputed decline, mobile devices and desktop virtualization offer surprising mutual benefits

Why VMware paid $1.5 billion to leap into mobile

AirWatch is the biggest acquisition in VMware's history. Sanjay Poonen, head of VMware's end-user computing business, explains why it's the right buy at the right time

Think of scheduled downtime as disaster recovery on your terms

Disasters should, by definition, never be scheduled — unless, of course, you're maintaining a data center

Video: An interview with Steve Jobs, rare and unedited

This lost footage from 1990 gives an hour-long uncut look into the mind of the late Apple co-founder

Video: As Macintosh hits the big 3-0, Apple CEO talks upcoming tech

Amid major milestone for Apple's first PC, CEO Tim Cook teases more domestic manufacturing and upcoming Sapphire glass

Qualcomm wants HP’s Palm patents for both protection and innovation

In grabbing Palm's patent lineup from HP, Qualcomm may be creating integrated package of components for licensing across mobile market

APPLE bows, producing Phablet — MICROSOFT winning with enterprise — SAMSUNG hit high and low by iPhone, Lenovo — SNOWDEN argues for, um, rule of law — Pope: Internet God’s gift

The numbers are in: iOS 7 does not crash more than iOS 6

Games and media apps are more susceptible to crashes than other app types, and Android edges iOS for app stability

Tech workers’ employment rates beat the national average

According to Dice.com, tech workers are half as likely to be unemployed as workers in general sector

The cloud is no cure-all for poor nations

The cloud may seem a cheap way to deploy tech, but it requires expensive infrastructure that developing countries don't have

Happy 40th anniversary, Dungeons & Dragons, from all your grateful geeks

Raise your hand if you too squandered your youth on polyhedral dice and inscrutable role playing

BrandPost: Are your Microsoft products nearing end of life?

Make sure you’re prepared for the end of support

Lenovo is buying IBM’s low-end servers — and its customers

Besides IBM's commodity server division, Lenovo wants Big Blue's client roster as a way to develop its own low-end business services division

IBM dumps server unit on Lenovo — EBAY spinning off PayPal? — Obama panel: NSA phone collection worthless, illegal — Protesters visit GOOGLE engineer home

Windows 8’s latest victim: Windows Phone sales

Adding to the ongoing folly known as Windows 8, Nokia hints that Windows Phone sales tanked during the holiday quarter

Storage: The stumbling block on the road to perfect server virtualization

Mobility has brought back I/O problems after two decades

Cloud feeds need for speed in software delivery

Evans survey finds developers accelerating updates, releases via cloud technologies

Stop headhunters from ruining meetups

It's tough to find talent. But recruiters, headhunters, and their ilk should be banned from meetups and user groups before they kill them

Locked out of LogMeIn? Check out these free alternatives

If you depended on LogMeIn's free tier for remote access, don't despair; plenty of competitors are just as functional — and free

Beyond virtualization: Why VMware bought AirWatch

It's not mobile management alone — VMware may be searching for a new direction or keeping competitors like Citrix at bay

Intel’s toughest year starts now

2014 is a do-or-die year for CEO Brian Krzanich as his company struggles to finally succeed in the mobile market

Google taking JavaScript challenger Dart on the road

Flight School events promote Dart language, help developers use it with Web frameworks like Polymer and Angular

VMWARE buys into mobile — AMAZON mulled pay-TV offering — BOTNET strikes again — FACEBOOK’s meta-stalker — Feds grill Google GLASS moviegoer

What do we want? Windows 9 — sorry, Windows 8

There are good arguments for both an interim Windows 8.2 upgrade and skipping straight to Windows 8's true successor

Anti-Google protestors are barking up the wrong bus stop

Why the fuss over Google's employee shuttles? Let's get back to the real reasons we hate Google — Google Glasses, for starters