Last week, Cisco Systems (CSCO) once again tried to lay claim to the Internet of Things (IoT), and they put a huge number on it. Cisco CEO John Chambers

How's that for a headline? I work on the Internets, so I need to get Google's attention.

Certain technologies get "hot" and take over the world. Others emerge as over-hyped but then fade back into obscurity. It's clear that WebRTC -- the evolving group of technology

Tell me if this has ever happened to you: Your work in some large inter-galactic corporate empire. The CEO, who has a Ph.D. from MIT and advanced degrees from

The Web commnity is still debating the onset of "Google Keyword Armageddon," in which Google (GOOG) recently made the decision to encrypt the bulk of the keyword data from

Firespotter Labs has shifted from developing apps for the restaurant industry to helping business communicators. Call it a food-to-phone transition.

Like most suicidal editors, I've decided to start a new feature: Buzzword Friday. As you know, the business world is filled with fun and colorful cliches. Sometimes people make

Okay, here we go. IPOs are booming, as we told you earlier in the week, and Twitter's ready to grab the cash. The social-networking company made its S-1 filing

Speaking with CloudPhysics Founder and CEO John Blumenthal, you get the sense that the modern data center, which supplies all that cloud-computing power, is a total mess.

LAS VEGAS -- ITEXPO -- One of the hot technology buzzwords these days is "M2M" -- for Machine to Machine Internet connectivity, also known as the Internet of Things.

You would think after reading the wide-ranging indictment of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the technology and business press, he had run Microsoft into the ground and driven his

Yesterday I wrote about the complacency about NSA data surveillance. Meanwhile, every day, we find out that the NSA surveillance program ran deeper and wider than anybody imagined. It

"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty,"

Yesterday I covered the Rocket Fuel IPO filing. The digital marketing analysis firm plans to raise up to $100 million going public. Even more insightful are the many digital

Internet ad networks are hot. Data science is hot. Therefore, Rocket Fuel, the company that combines ad networks and data science, can go public. And on Friday it filed

A big theme of the Rayno Report is innovation in the connected world. That is, how do our network connections create value. We have seen this over time with

Internet video advertising company YuMe successfully went public today, raising about $46 million in total proceeds and achieving a market cap of about $320 million, but it priced 5.1

It's Tuesday. Amazon.com announced on Monday it is buying the Washington Post, for $250 million. This was just a few days after Red Sox owner John Henry announced he

Long-time communications tech entrepreneur Cheng Wu wants to help the telecom industry with a makeover. His company, Azuki Systems, is looking to turn the telecomms into media moguls using

Cisco just pulled off the biggest deal since its blockbuster acquisition of NDS for $5B in 2012, buying publicly traded SourceFire (FIRE) for $2.7B. The move is an interesting

Internet video is an incredible story. Just take a look at the influence of YouTube, arguably the most successful of all Internet video startups. Google bought YouTube for $1.65B

As a media person, I hear lots of distress about the future of the industry. Content creation jobs are becoming more scarce, budgets are tighter, and there is a

This is what happens when a software company messes around in the most competitive consumer hardware market on earth: a $900M mistake. Microsoft announced its earnings today and said

It's the one-year anniversay of Marissa Mayer taking over as the CEO of the Internet site for old geezers, Yahoo. That means it's cause for the Silicon Valley sycophants