LAS VEGAS -- Demonstrating HP's feisty attitude in its escalating networking row with Cisco, HP Network Chief Technologist Paul Congdon attacked Cisco's dominant position in the networking business, saying

LAS VEGAS -- I entered the show floor here at Interop, a long-running IT and networking technology conference, only to be bombarded with the words "cloud computing." For those

Sometimes it's nice to get away a few days, disconnect, and refresh the mind. And then you come back, and find out that Facebook wants to rule the world.

This is a big year for new Google products, as the company has introduced its own smartphone, the Nexus One, and is in the process of trying to buy

Another day, more Twitter. Are you annoyed? Fine, so am I. But you see, if you are a budding manic techno-bloggo--analy-journalist like myself, you need to cover this stuff.

Well, Twittermania has taken full hold in Silicon Valley. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Techmeme, a news aggregation site frequented by technology trade journalists,

As rumors run amok about who's going to buy Palm, I have to point out what I did earlier: I can't see paying a premium for this company. A

There is a surge of startups trying to address the management of smartphones in enterprise networks, which is surely going to be a massive issue. If you think about

The whole National Broadband Plan discussion is turning into a circus, at tax-payer expense. The way I see it, the FCC is standing in front of the operators with

It's the "third anniversary" of Hulu, otherwise known in the beginning of the end of network TV. And now, the message that Hulu is leaking to the press is

I have a Labrador as a pet. They are famous for eating everything. So are mobile consumers, which brings an interesting question: With a flood of mobile "tablet computing"

LAS VEGAS -- All of the exciting new devices and discussion about high-bandwidth 4G (Fourth Generation) data services (up to 100Mbps) here at CTIA have the comm equipment guys

Service provicers are spending the most time testing the Blackberry OS, but Android-based phones are gaining and the Microsoft Windows and Symbian OS continue to lose share with developers,

LAS VEGAS -- Given that the rest of the Western world is wallowing in a lingering recession/depression, it's nice to hunker down in Vegas at the CTIA where it's

LAS VEGAS -- Service provider Sprint, which has suffered some much-publicized problems following its merger with Nextel, losing customers at an alarming rate, is making a major push towards

LAS VEGAS -- Who knew? I got something right. About a month ago, I advocated a complex trade involving AT&T. The main premise: The stock was cheap, the dividend

I am perplexed by a story going around orginating in the Gigaom universe (via Fortune, Techmeme, various blogs, e.t.c.) that Sequoia partner Mark Kvamme is telling folks that advertising

Parsing today's news, I see that Twitter has announced a new platform that does some stuff. I wish I could tell you what it was, but the press reports

As I've been in the media industry nearly all my life, I understand spin. And I'm continually fascinated by how the mainstream media often "buys the spin" when they

Sometimes, covering the news makes me nauseous. It doesn't help that all over the Web, there are hundreds of sycophantic bloggers embracing tech-company spin. Of course, often, the companies

There was an incredible amount of hype leading up to Cisco's announcement of a new core router, the CRS-3. Typically, router announcements are not covered in detail by the

Well, Cisco marketing and public relations professionals deserve a promotion for generating spectacular attention on an announcement tomorrow. They say it will "change the Internet" -- and journalists worldwide

I am racking my brain trying to decide what to make of the deal in which Yahoo has announced a partnership with Twitter to more deeply integrate the two

An interesting little battle is developing on the mobile front with video. You see, as many people complain, the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone does not include Flash support. Neither