News SEC to Telcos: Yes, Net Neutrality is a Significant Policy Issue Back in December 2006, as part of its agreement to merge with former regional Bell operating company BellSouth, AT&T made a pledge to the Federal Communications Commission. In that pledge, AT&T promised it would maintain a fair and neutral policy toward all Internet packet routing, applying no privileges based on packets' origin, content, or… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
News What's an "Open Cloud," Anyway? Red Hat Says It's Not VMware When open source started gaining in popularity, a lot of vendors started trying to co-opt the open source label without actually being open source. You don't see quite as much of that today, but now we're seeing vendors trying to affix the "open" label to cloud solutions that really aren't. Scott Crenshaw, vice president of Red Hat's cloud business… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Google G+ Circles Are Getting Competitive Google+ updated the Circles interface to make it easier to find people. The snazzy HTML5 circle controls now shrink down for smaller screens. The page now has a new left sidebar like the circles menu on the main Google+ page but with a few more options for managing circles. The page now has a tab for the people who have you in their circles, as… Social Jon Mitchell View comments
mobile Juniper: Mobile Malware Increased 155% in 2011 Malware permeated the mobile ecosystem in 2011. The issue is not going away either. Smartphones have an unprecedented amount of personal data that malicious hackers are drooling to obtain. Every day they are coming up with more sophisticated attacks and scheming ways on how to infiltrate that data trove in your pocket. Juniper's Mobile Threats… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Digital Lifestyle Spending Valentine's Day with the Internet Birds The word "love" elicits reactions from everyone, and some of those feelings are not pretty. Except when they're absolutely beautiful. On Valentine's Day, Internet users' emotions were plentiful and mixed. Twitter trends like #CandyHeartRejects and #FedValentines popped up, illuminating the thoughts of quite a few bitter birds. Facebook also… Social Alicia Eler View comments