CEO who rebelled against Microsoft over Windows licensing backs down
“Rebel” virtual desktop service will remove itself from the Interwebs.
Comcast answers data cap questions
"We're out of the cap business," Comcast says.
Best Buy’s surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup
Somewhere in the march toward "easy," security got blindsided.
Massive DDoS attack keeps The Pirate Bay offline for over a day
Angry Anons may be behind the attack.
NVIDIA virtualizes the GPU for streamed desktops and cloud gaming
New GPUs also triple speed for high-performance computing
How Amazon saved Zynga’s butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own
Five years ago, the social gaming company Zynga was cruising along with a fairly standard IT infrastructure. Servers were racked and stacked in a retail data center where Zynga rented space....
Feature: Coolest jobs in tech: from the pits of Le Mans to the dugouts of Fenway Park
When race cars whiz around a track at 200 miles per hour, driving ability isn’t the only factor that determines who wins the race. Behind the scenes, in mobile data centers...
Coolest jobs in tech: from the pits of Le Mans to the dugouts of Fenway Park
The geeks have entered the locker room.
Oracle-Google jury reaches verdict on all but one Java copyright question
The jury in the Oracle/Google Java copyright case has ruled on three of the four questions it must answer, but a verdict has not been revealed because the presiding judge has sent jurors back to...
Yahoo: Facebook’s Open Compute Project also violates our patents
You already know Yahoo is suing Facebook, claiming its "entire social network model" was made possible by Yahoo's patented Web technologies. Now, it turns out Yahoo is indicating it may assert another 16 patents against...
Motorola wins sales ban on Xbox and Windows 7, but can’t enforce it
Motorola Mobility has won an injunction preventing the sale of the Xbox 360 and Windows 7 from a German court.
Motorola can't enforce the injunction right away, however. Microsoft will appeal the ruling, and a...
Bandwidth explosion: As Internet use soars, can bottlenecks be averted?
Bandwidth usage is soaring, driven by the proliferation of Internet-connected devices.
