ZDNet Must Read

• David Gewirtz CBSi Lecture Series

  View lectures on the topics of Virtualization, IT Infrastructure, Government IT, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Search, and Enterprise Strategies. Courtesy of CBS Interactive and its partners, you can view them all on-demand, and for free.

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• Why Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is a schmuck

  By David Gewirtz | May 14, 2012, 10:12pm PDT

  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.

• Letting our lawmakers make laws about cybersecurity is probably a mistake

  By David Gewirtz | May 7, 2012, 3:34am PDT

  We’ll wind up with a law that substantially reduces our privacy, increases costs to most companies, does not protect us from cyberattacks, and doesn’t get the job done.

• Irony: GOP call blasting Obama for unemployment hosted in Philippines

  By David Gewirtz | May 4, 2012, 4:30am PDT

  We want and need to buy American. That, and not just mocking the loyal opposition, is how you’re going to really save jobs in America.

• Ben Franklin would say our online liberty is the same as liberty itself

  By David Gewirtz | May 1, 2012, 4:00am PDT

  It’s a fine line to walk. Rather than great thinkers like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin, we’re stuck with the 112th U.S. Congress.

• CISPA: more heinous than SOPA, and it just passed

  By David Gewirtz | April 27, 2012, 2:39am PDT

  There’s still time to take this bill down. Read, learn, and then let your Congress-Critters know that, once again, We The Internet will not stand for these assaults on our rights.

• Should we allow Facebook access for actively serving military personnel?

  By David Gewirtz | April 24, 2012, 1:33am PDT

  The wife of an active-duty soldier learned of his death, not through the military’s very carefully thought-out death-notification procedure, but over Facebook.

• Is Apple REALLY family-friendly or does it just want you to think it is?

  By David Gewirtz | April 17, 2012, 5:00am PDT

  Could it really be so important to keep every cent that Apple has sent a team of lawyers to fight against refunding a few misleading in-app purchases made by little children?

• Well, there it is. Santorum is out and the real presidential campaign begins today.

  By David Gewirtz | April 10, 2012, 9:42pm PDT

  Now that he’s sewn up the nomination, will we see the real Mitt Romney? Do we know who the “real” Mitt Romney is? Does even Mitt Romney, anymore, know who the “real” Mitt Romney is?

• Delegate math shows Santorum and brokered conventions both out of the running soon

  By David Gewirtz | April 4, 2012, 4:55pm PDT

  Does Santorum have any chance of making it? Will Mitt be able to close the deal sooner than the convention nominating ballots?

• FCC hosts digital learning summit

  By David Gewirtz | March 29, 2012, 7:42am PDT

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Department of Education are hosting an executive digital learning summit today in Washington, D.C.