Opinion

Cloudera pitches Hadoop for everything. Really?

Cloudera's idea of Hadoop as an enterprise data hub is a bold one, but the reality's quite different: Hadoop still has a long way to go before it can eclipse all other big data solutions

10 common tasks for MongoDB

MongoDB is a $1.2 billion company and one of the hottest tech ventures around. But what's its flagship product good for?

Video: Seven databases defined in one song

It's informative and catchy!

Mobile saturation means innovation will slow

A smartphone in every pocket may soon be a reality. That will make it harder to fund further innovation

What’s on tap at the NSA? Google’s and Yahoo’s private fiber backbones

The NSA is eavesdropping on overseas data links for Google and Yahoo, and it's now swimming in your data. But to what end?

Reviews: IPAD Air vs. Lenovo YOGA — Lobbyist named FCC chair — INTEL fabs ARM — HADOOP for all — BITCOIN jackpot

The chip times are a-changin’: Intel agrees to build ARM chips

And not just any ARM chip — Intel will use its 14nm technology to build the most advanced Altera 64-bit quad-core ARM chip ever

iOS apps vulnerable to Wi-Fi hijacking bug

Many apps in iOS — and possibly other OSes as well — are vulnerable to a Wi-Fi based attack that redirects traffic to a malicious server without the user ever knowing

There’s no free lunch, but there could be a ‘free’ Windows

Apple has done a great job in marketing its 'free' upgrades. But nothing is truly free

The ultimate guide to preventing DNS-based DDoS attacks

Celebrated author/Infoblox technologist Cricket Liu explains how to prevent DNS-based DDoS attacks — and avoid being an unwitting accomplice to one

Motorola’s new smartphone: Digital Legos

Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a modular smartphone, akin to 'Phonebloks' concept, but faces multiple engineering hurdles

APPLE sells more, Cook bullish — Smartphones: Samsung 35%, Apple 13% — HADOOP, cloud king — MOTOROLA’s open-source hardware

Retina MacBook Pros inexplicably freezing for many users

Apple's Haswell-powered Retina MacBook Pro plagued by hangs and lockups, with no clear reason why and no consistent fix

Car trouble? There’s an app for that

Not just cool and useful, the Automatic device also gives a tangible hint of the smartphone's new role at center of the Internet of things

For the Mac, like the PC, it’s all downhill from here

Just as businesses have begun to grudgingly accept OS X, sales are slipping in what may be the Mac's long, slow good-bye

By 2016, most new IT spending will be in the cloud

Application migration will be the biggest part of the effort, and business will continue to be the main driver

Where cloud backup fits the bill

Cloud backup might not replace tape, but it can be useful in a wide range of places — if you know how to use it

Shipshape or dead weight? Google’s secret project sets sail

A floating data center? A windowless Google Glass store? Google's barge in the bay is drawing lots of speculation

Antigua and Barbuda: The new Pirate Bay?

WTO decision over online gambling is giving nation of Antigua and Barbuda unprecedented freedom to do as it will with U.S. copyrights

Mirantis brings enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution to the cloud

Company claims edge over rivals Red Hat, Canonical, and Suse due to its services background and 'zero lock-in' flexibility

Microsoft’s Surface numbers don’t add up

How in the world did Microsoft sell $400 million worth of Surface tablets last quarter? My bet: It didn't. Not even close

Street awaits APPLE earnings — POTUS (un)aware NSA tapped Merkel — GOOGLE floats trial barges — BUBBLE swells — 38% of TODDLERS wired

Mozilla sheds a light(beam) on Web privacy

Lightbeam plug-in for Firefox shows who's watching when you log into your favorite sites, encourages users to anonymously submit tracking data

Operating systems want to be free

Two of the three major desktop operating systems are now free. And it's likely to be a trend

SoftLayer CEO: A very Big Blue cloud is coming

With last summer's acquisition, IBM has a clear IaaS solution. SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby says we can expect a massive cloud infrastructure ramp-up

There’s more than one way to uncover state secrets

NSA's ex-director tastes his own medicine when a passenger on the same train tweets his off-the-record statements

Don’t be fooled by phony ‘open source’

You want a contributor network effect? Get a real open source license.

Seagate cooks up game-changing cloud storage hardware

Seagate wants to pare down cloud storage to Ethernet-attached drives, but it'll take a long time, a lot of work

AMAZON, still unprofitable, passes Microsoft’s headcount — MICROSOFT profit crushes it — King Chrome top browser — Last qtr: iPad 15M, Surface 1M — LINKEDIN Intro reads your email

With 3D printing, HP could go back to its tech roots

HP CEO hints at major move into 3D printing — and potential return to nuts-and-bolts technology in which HP once excelled

From metal to machine: See how the iconic Mac Pro is made

Video: Transformers have nothing on the real-world robots that make the new top-end Mac

It’s time for OpenStack to hit the accelerator

A minor upgrade, OpenStack's forthcoming Havana release risks not being broad enough to gain enterprise traction

BBM: The Messenger is already dead

Hitting 10 million downloads sounds like a success, but BlackBerry's basic messaging app won't keep those users

The millennial generation: They are us, we are them

There's a lot of loose talk about the new generation being fundamentally different, but that's not the truth

Don’t be fooled by phony ‘open source’

Companies that try to use some mutant form of open source to generate a contributor network effect are deluding themselves

(Almost) everyone loves the new patent reform bill

New iteration of patent reform bill aimed at neutralizing trolls has bipartisan and industry support, but some business groups are uneasy

YOUTUBE drops needle on iRadio, Spotify — GOOGLE flies banner ads — WOZ doesn’t need Air — HP entering 3D printing — ‘Cloud Corridor’? Really?

10 reasons to take a Chromebook on the road

When it comes to computing on the go, Chromebooks have a lot to offer

AngularJS dumps old browsers, cozies up to new frameworks

Version 2.0 of popular JavaScript framework will also boost asynchronous dependency injection

Use MongoDB to make your app location-aware

Crunching contextual data about users can sell more stuff — and in a mobile world, location data rules. Here's how to add location awareness to mobile apps with MongoDB

The new Web tracking: You never see it coming

Web tracking is far more pervasive and invisible than ever, thanks to browser fingerprinting and third-party aggregation

Rubinius seeks to modernize, not bury, the Ruby language

Despite his criticism, Rubinius X backer Brian Shirai still loves Ruby and wants to make it more open to networked computing

ZeroVM virtualizes apps, not machines

Rackspace's new technology acquisition is a hypervisor built specifically for cloud apps

Internet justice is served for Twitter trolls and PR puppets

Security wonks, Wikipedia 'editors,' Fox Newsies — the Internet gaveth, then tooketh away from these fakers and fibbers

APPLE’s season — NOKIA unveils phablets, tablets — Maria in the Sky with SQL — HTC needs THC — 1,493rd Apple TV rumor

Microsoft keeps the Azure hits coming

Windows Azure SDK 2.2, Hyper-V Recovery Manager preview, and Windows Azure Backup are among the many new features added to Azure this week

Security by default takes one step forward, two back

The out-of-the-box security settings for Apple's new iPhone 5s are just the latest example of security innovations becoming security liabilities

SDN, big data, and the self-optimizing network

SDN will eventually relieve the burden of manual reconfiguration, but only when we collect and process enough data to enable the network to optimize itself

Secrets and lies: A coding cover-up

A tech pro enters a netherworld of dubious dealings, odd practices, and borderline personalities at a new job

Windows 8.1: The key security improvements

Although users may prefer the comfort of Windows 7, Windows 8.1's security advantages should pique IT's interest