The Nielsen ratings, on which broadcast TV ads are based, fails to recognize the new realities of TV consumption.

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More bad news for Microsoft: Gartner research shows that its smartphone sales have tumbled by 27% compared to a year ago, and Microsoft now only has 1.9% market share. At this rate, it's not clear if Windows Phone will ever gain traction.

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Intelligent WAN is an online community for executive IT and line of business managers looking to WAN solutions and optimization to cut costs and drive business value. Together, the Intelligent WAN community explores how WAN optimization helps applications run faster and more efficiently through application performance management and cloud security, connecting multi-site enterprise networks.

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Red Hat has seen 10 very good years. In 2002, Red Hat was perhaps the biggest of the Linux distributors, but the biggest? SUSE and Caldera–before its went over to the dark side and became Darth SCO–were also contenders for the top spot. Behind them, now struggling Linux companies such as Mandriva and deceased businesses Progeny Linux, which tried to take Debian Linux to market, were also potential players. Then, ten-years ago, Red Hat completed the move, which would take it from first among equ...  show all text

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While VeriFone's Square rival SAIL looks nothing like Square's credit-card-swiping dongle, the company veered into flat-out imitation with its legal user agreement, which lifted much of its language directly from Square's merchant user agreement.

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The resolution of the 18th-century mapping is also a story of 20th-century technology

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One of the running gags on the geek-com The Big Bang Theory is a five-item variant on Rock, Paper, Scissors called, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock.” It made its first appearance in 2008, in an episode entitled, “ The Lizard-Spock Expansio

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Here's last year's winning t-shirt design. The Linux Foundation, in honor of Linux’s 21st birthday is having another t-shirt competition. So, if you really love Linux, can make cool t-shirt designs (That leaves me right out), then this contest is for you! This year the theme is “Inspired by Linux” and calls on people from around the world to create a design with that in mind. You can find the complete rules here, but to cut to the chase, it needs to be an original design. It has to be in a file...  show all text

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NEWS ANALYSIS: LightSquared's Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition will give it time to seek a solution for its failure to meet regulatory requirements, the company says.

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Game-changing entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CxOs, and just those who matter in the venture capital world knows someone the average technology veteran doesn’t: Tom Kosnik, a Fenwick and West consulting professor in the Department of Management Science a

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The buzz about Big Data is deafening, but the new trend is more than noise; it's sheet music small businesses can play for profit, but only if played well. Here's the note-by-note breakdown so you can whistle that tune all the way to the bank.

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One reason to unify Android? Too many shipping versions. For all its popularity, Android programming, sales, and marketing has been… chaotic. Every hardware vendor makes its own Android mix, which more often than not is based on an older version, and each company sales and markets their smartphones and tablets independently of each other. That may be changing now. According to a Wall Street Journal report, “Google is shifting its strategy for its Android mobile operating system, in a bid to cre...  show all text

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I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies. So, the challenge: ...  show all text

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General Motors plans to stop advertising on Facebook after determining its paid ads had little impact on consumers. The news comes just days ahead of Facebook's IPO.

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By Todd R. Weiss Inside your company, there's a wide variety of software being used to run your business. The question is, however, is it all legal? Do you have licenses for every application and computer operating system you are running on ev

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The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012. A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New York City actually needs to sling JavaScript code to do his job, something is deeply, horribly, terribly wrong with politics in the state of New York. Even if Mr. Bloomberg did "learn to code", with apologies to Adam Vandenberg, I expect we'd end up with ...  show all text

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Enlarge / The alleged DM exchange threatening The Jester with exposure. The vigilante hacker who made a name for himself harassing Anonymous, disrupting WikiLeaks, and stalking “jihadist” sites is apparently laying low after threats to expose his real identity were made via Twitter on May 11. The person claiming to have details of The Jester’s identity plans to publish that information—after he passes the hat for Bitcoins first, allegedly in part to raise funds for WikiLeaks. On May 14, The Jes...  show all text

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(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Just days before Facebook's historic stock offering, General Motors said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don't have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Wall [...]

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General Motors plans to stop advertising on Facebook after determining its paid ads had little impact on consumers. The news comes just days ahead of Facebook's IPO.

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A firm of business analysts speculates that it would be great if Google’s Chrome Web browser were to come to iOS devices. Will it? Will Apple let it?

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  Award-winning feature film and documentary director and writer Todd Robinson is best known for his films White Squall (1996) starring Jeff Bridges; Lonely Hearts (2006) starring John Travolta, Salma Hayek, and Jared Leto; the do

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In order to avoid paying taxes on his multi-billion dollar IPO windfall, Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, is renouncing his United States citizenship.

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Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More »

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An ode to the father of the electric age. View

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Starting today, you can discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter. Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you. Click any headline to finish reading the story, add your take by tweeting directly from the email, and see rel...  show all text

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Nick Bilton, in today’s The New York Times, writes about Facebook’s ability to look at what is happening on its network and predict the future. He says since more than nine million apps and services use Facebook Connect, the Open Graph developer platform, the company can essentially predict what comes next. Maybe! In reality, what is more likely is that Facebook can turn on or turn off the traffic spigot and hence play the king maker. Bilton quotes an anonymous source as saying, “Facebook is now  show all text

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Web architect Nicole Sullivan says legacy systems present a big problem when it comes to fixing web performance issues. IT management seems simple enough — in a vacuum. But the trouble is nobody has a technology vacuum unless you are a virgin start-up with no legacy systems in place. Most companies however, don’t have the luxury. Most organizations are in fact burdened by a slew of legacy systems and if you are a hospital or insurance company, you could still have databases dating back to the 6...  show all text

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