The moral of this story is that old technology isn’t necessarily bad technology. And it is a commentary on not replacing something while it is still working just fine. At SiliconANGLE, we are strongly disposed toward favoring the newest and best-est, as though the two are always the same. They aren’t, and sometimes the best ...

Can the Cloud save Apple? At first, it seems a silly question. How can a company at the top of tech pyramid need saving? And what does the cloud have to do with it? Here’s what: In 2020, Apple will no longer be the top tech company, venture capitalist Fred Wilson told a New York ...

We are now a week into Microsoft’s ownership of Nokia’s handset business and, contrary to some media reports that the pairing “changes everything,” not much seems to have changed. It will be years, not weeks or even months before we see how the deal works out. I am hopeful with reservations — or as doctors ...

Box.com CEO Aaron Levie has just written the most (unintentionally) funny thing I’ve read recently. He’s responding to Microsoft’s announcement that it is raising the storage quota on OneDrive for Business from 25GB to 1TB per user. Here’s Levie: “By keeping Office 365 users on the closed OneDrive ‘island,’ Microsoft is stranding hundreds of millions ...

Businesses using Microsoft Office could save money by switching to something else, says a company that (surprise!) helps businesses dump Microsoft’s apps suite and move to Google’s. My reaction: Extremely cautious. Application analytics company Softwatch says its monitoring of nearly 150,000 users finds Microsoft Office is used, on average, for only 48 minutes-a-day, time overwhelmingly ...

I had understood that appointing the former head of the cable television industry and wireless lobbies as chairman of the FCC was not a good thing. I did not, however, understand how bad it would actually be until Chairman Tom Wheeler appeared to have pulled a 180 on net neutrality. Though it may be weeks before the ...

How much has Heartbleed cost us? CloudFlare has posted a blog talking about the costs — laughably small in my view — of revoking and reissuing security certificates. This will be expensive, extrapolating into the tens, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars. That, however, is likely small change compared to corporate IT expense and the ...

USA Today gets it wrong when it claims the future of cloud computing hangs in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case brought against start-up Aereo by the major television networks. Most cloud computing isn’t about redistribution of other peoples’ content without payment or using Rube Goldberg schemes, like Aereo’s little antennas, to ...

Someone would have to be pretty dense not to blame open-source for the global catastrophe that is the Heartbleed bug. But that hasn’t stopped InfoWorld from trying. “Stop laying the blame for Heartbleed on open source,” blared the headline on its Monday PM email newsletter. Followed by: “Security experts acknowledge that open source is the ...

Whatever trust a sane person could have in the Internet was lost last week, thanks to idealism and cheapness. The awfulness that is Heartbleed would have been difficult to imagine, except it is now right here among us. How did this happen? Blame it on open source. And the myth that open source software is ...