Opinion

The Steve Jobs story you should see isn’t told in ‘Jobs’

'Jobs' the movie is worth seeing, but falls short with omission of Steve Jobs's real transformation or later, greater achievements

Video: Magical wireless communications, no batteries or transmitters needed

University of Washington researchers harness omnipresent TV signals to enable wireless communication

An inside look at what to expect at VMworld 2013

VMware's CMO talks to InfoWorld about the 10th anniversary of the world's largest virtualization trade show

Radical ideas for new Macs from before Steve Jobs returned to Apple

In the late '90s, when Apple lost its design sense, Macworld magazine and Frogdesign tried to help Apple think different

No winners in Google-Microsoft spat, but one clear loser: Users everywhere

Not content to fight over, er, everything, tech giants battle over YouTube and HTML — at the expense of the user experience

NSA Privacy Rule violations vastly greater than believed — Clash tanks DELL 72% — GOOGLE Heisman to Windows Phone YouTube app — SAMSUNG’s Droid-powered Galaxy Gear watch — GATES patents text-to-image mapping — Crossing SARAH LACY

Serious action is needed to undo NSA’s damage to U.S. cloud providers

As U.S. cloud providers face customer backlash, the feds treat the electronic spying controversy as merely a PR problem

Wishful thinking won’t reverse Microsoft’s misfortune

Microsoft advocates ignore new power of users in believing Surface tablet will improve with better marketing or in phantom update

Microsoft’s ‘terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad’ week

This week's damage: Surface RT lawsuits, botched security patches, SkyDrive and Outlook.com outages, and a subpar Windows 8.1 leak

Intel throws its weight behind HTML5

Intel pads its seal of approval by flaunting its decades-long history in programming

No. 1 LENOVO sells more smartphones, tablets than PCs — IBM’s $1B win for another Uncle Sam Cloud — APPLE tastes China Mobile breakthru — GOOGLE hit w/FUD bomb over Gmail privacy flap

4 things to love about Google’s Chromebook Pixel — and 4 things to hate

Google's latest Chrome-OS-powered Chromebook laptop is a sleek machine with a lot to love — and hate

Microsoft botches six Windows patches in latest Automatic Update

Microsoft acknowledges problems with KB 2876063, KB 2859537, KB 2873872, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, and KB 2868846, all released earlier this week

IT certifications are finally helping your paycheck again

After declining for six years, the value of many IT certifications is increasing — but pick the right one if you want to cash in

Big data means big challenges in lifecycle management

No matter what its size or variety, data must still be managed through its lifecycle, even when the tools are immature

Windows RT? More like Windows WTF

How did Microsoft miss so badly with Windows RT? By putting its own needs ahead of its users' requirements

Lavabit founder says he can’t legally explain why he shut down email service

Lavar Levison says pulling plug on secure email service purportedly used by Edward Snowden was lesser of two evils

Censor-busting PirateBrowser works — within limits

Recently released Firefox-based browser is supposed to circumvent censorship and blockades, but performance is spotty

ICAHN LONG with big APPLE position — MSFT shareholder REVOLT over Surface RT ‘DISASTER’ — 40% of Americans FACEBOOK daily — gagged LAVABIT founder speaks — WILSON fears DROID could ‘run the table’ — OM MALIK, new American

The futility of the single-device solution

Maybe one day a single device will adapt to different use cases, but until then, embrace the power of having multiple devices

Platfora CEO: How we deliver sharper analytics faster

CEO Ben Werther tells how Platfora's Hadoop-based solution upends old-fashioned, inflexible business intelligence processes

How do you land an IT job? Show, don’t tell

Your skills, that is, and as a tech pro finds out, courage, gumption, and good friends help too

Could Surface RT 2 be the Windows tablet we’ve been waiting for?

Microsoft is working on a successor to the poorly selling Surface RT, so it's too soon to deliver its eulogy

Video: Larry Ellison disses Google, predicts doom for Apple

Outspoken Oracle CEO aims ire at Larry Page, says Steve Jobs was too integral for Apple to thrive without him

BUST: MSFT Sold Only 200K Surface Pros in Q2 — BOOM: FACEBOOK’S Sandberg Banks $91M Shares — ELLISON: Short Apple — GOOGLE FIBER Continues Server Ban

MySQL face-off: MySQL or MariaDB?

MariaDB challenges MySQL with greater performance, more advanced features, and complete backward compatibility

Java tops C as most popular language in developer index

As Tiobe factors in more sites in its assessment, Java rises, while C and Objective-C drop in the rankings

3 common mistakes in cloud migrations — and how to avoid them

Some enterprises make all the right moves with cloud computing, but most are bound to stub their toes

The 5 flaws that iOS 7 isn’t likely to fix

These nagging omissions have haunted several versions of iOS, with no sign the new OS for iPhones and iPads will solve them

What’s worse than a system failure? What you say about it

Communicating well in emergencies is often just as important as working to end the emergency

Hint to HTC: Iron Man alone won’t save your company

Congrats to Robert Downey Jr. on his new gig hawking HTC. Can he also fix glitches plaguing Cringely and other HTC users?

Leaked Windows 8.1 Build 9471 surprises, disappoints

Windows 8.1 X 64 Pro Build 9471 — apparently leaked, but very close to final — hit torrents and download sites worldwide late yesterday. Here's what I've found

IPHONE 5S & 5C RELEASE Rumor Outbreak — LEAKED Next Windows 8.1 Build ‘Privacy-leaching’ — BLACKBERRY Trading Halted — MSFT BUILDING Uncle Sam’s Cloud — GASSEE on Bezos, Washpost & Culture War — HOROWITZ on Why Founders Fail

VMware takes another whack at the cloud

Bill Fathers, senior VP for hybrid cloud, dishes on VMware's new partner strategy to deliver hybrid cloud computing to the enterprise

5 new vendors to watch at VMworld 2013

Virtualization and cloud newcomers show off application, networking, and storage releases in the Solutions Exchange

Build up your production system by first tearing it down

Beating preproduction gear to the ground is a great way to learn the system and excellent prep for future troubleshooting

Personal email and private clouds fall in war on privacy

Not content to track smartphone and Internet use, the industrial surveillance state claims two more casualties

Acer is latest tablet maker moving away from the Windows fold

Microsoft's iPad-bashing ad starring Acer Iconia W3 drops just as Acer CEO reveals company's move away from Windows 'as soon as possible'

Lavabit shutdown marks another costly blemish for U.S. tech companies

Email provider's move will further fuel concerns that American companies can't be trusted to keep customer data private

Jeff Hawkins: Where open source and machine learning meet big data

The Palm pioneer has turned to neuroscience and big data to create a path to truly intelligent machines — a path open to the community's contributions

What the cloud will look like in 3 years

Perennial management, security, and data issues will remain key, but they will look different than they do today

The Amazoning of news has now begun

Expect Jeff Bezos to leverage Amazon's predictive analytics, as well as its means of digital content and physical distribution, to reboot the Washington Post

Giving kids iPads won’t solve the education challenge

Los Angeles's program to supply iPads to 640,000 students is the latest example of confusing technology with teaching

Java faces tough climb to catch up to .Net

C# and .Net have already achieved much of what Java 8 sets out to do

Canonical lands first enterprise backer for Ubuntu Edge, just 49 to go

As Bloomberg plunks down $80,000 for an enterprise bundle, Canonical drops the Edge's price point to $695

Facebook and Infosys: Working hard to perpetuate H-1B hypocrisy

Silicon Valley is going all out to raise the cap on H-1B visas while at least half of Infosys's U.S employees are from overseas

Java faces tough climb to catch up to .Net

By the time Java 8 comes out, it'll be another two to five years behind .Net — and Microsoft's coordinated front

Watch the throne: The cruelest hack of all

Not even smart toilets are safe from hackers, nor are your smart cars, smart homes, smart anything. When will we wise up about security?

Look out below! A young techie is coming through

Asbestos and hazmat, fire drills and overhead spills — they're just a few challenges in a new techie's early days on the job

Video: Watch what happens when a Prius gets hacked

Security engineers take over the various computerized systems of a Toyota hybrid and wirelessly control it