http://www.networkworld.com/rss/netflash.xml Network World News Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2013 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-forrester-paas-270968.html?source=nww_rss Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward. Brandon Butler 2013-06-18T12:50:51-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-source-code-for-carberp-financial-270967.html?source=nww_rss The source code for the Carberp banking Trojan program is being offered for sale on the underground market at a very affordable price, which could result in additional Carberp-based financial malware being developed in the future, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB. Lucian Constantin 2013-06-18T12:39:40-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-eu-institutions39-sites-move-toward-270966.html?source=nww_rss Europe's top law-making body is working to bring its websites into line with the cookie tracking laws it enforces on other entities. Jennifer Baker 2013-06-18T11:45:02-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-venture-firm-accel-makes-another-270962.html?source=nww_rss Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups. Bob Brown 2013-06-18T11:30:52-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-huawei39s-ascend-p6-smartphone-has-270959.html?source=nww_rss Huawei Technologies' much-leaked Ascend P6 smartphone is the world's thinnest at 6.18 millimeters, and has the highest-resolution front-facing camera at 5 megapixels, the company claimed at the phone's London launch. Peter Sayer 2013-06-18T11:30:40-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-google-glass-privacy-concerns-raised-270963.html?source=nww_rss The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter to CEO Larry Page. Loek Essers 2013-06-18T11:28:46-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-hp-shakes-up-management-team-270961.html?source=nww_rss Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets. Agam Shah 2013-06-18T10:36:51-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-swedish-court-oks-pirate-bay-270958.html?source=nww_rss The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, the court confirmed Tuesday. Loek Essers 2013-06-18T09:56:49-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-why-cloud-computing-offers-affordability-270957.html?source=nww_rss Remember those 'Tastes great! Less filling!' beer ads? Many debate cloud computing in a similar manner, saying the cloud's great because it's either agile or inexpensive. As it turns out, cloud computing's affordability and agility aren't mutually exclusive--and that's good news for enterprise IT. Bernard Golden 2013-06-18T09:29:12-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-wall-street-sets-example-for-270955.html?source=nww_rss Quantum Dawn 2 will test institutions' playbooks while also finding more efficient ways to share real-time information Antone Gonsalves 2013-06-18T09:08:27-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-how-to-evaluate-the-risk-270956.html?source=nww_rss IT organizations and CIOs don't contract and outsource to countries, they contract and outsource to companies. Given that, it's time to stop assessing location-based risk in a vacuum because sometimes the 'riskiest' suppliers may have the most innovative solutions. Stephanie Overby 2013-06-18T09:07:25-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-enterasys-270953.html?source=nww_rss Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations. Jim Duffy 2013-06-18T08:30:29-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-jive-boosts-mobile-capabilities-of-270954.html?source=nww_rss Jive Software is making a mobile push with new and enhanced mobile applications that have an emphasis on helping users of the enterprise social networking (ESN) suite create, not just view, content from their tablets and smartphones. Juan Carlos Perez 2013-06-18T08:01:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-facebook-set-to-beef-up-270951.html?source=nww_rss Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-18T07:17:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-japan39s-nhk-develops-robot-camera-270950.html?source=nww_rss Japan's public television broadcaster, NHK, has developed an array of video cameras that are synchronized to create "bullet time" shots like those popularized in the film The Matrix. Jay Alabaster 2013-06-18T06:56:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-walmart-taking-the-chromebook-270949.html?source=nww_rss Walmart has begun selling the Chromebook in 2,800 of its approximately 4,600 U.S. stores, expanding the reach of this still-on-the-margins platform. Staples too. Patrick Thibodeau 2013-06-18T06:12:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-crowdstrike-falcon-270930.html?source=nww_rss Start-up CrowdStrike today made available its first product, called Falcon, designed to detect and block stealthy infiltrations of Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh-based endpoint machines and servers. Ellen Messmer 2013-06-18T06:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-innovator-270922.html?source=nww_rss Innovation has become a top concern for companies seeking a competitive edge in today's business world, especially as more organizations face new competitors that are using technology as a business disruptor. IDG Insider Mary Brandel 2013-06-18T06:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-google-adds-more-retailers-for-270948.html?source=nww_rss Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by over 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers. John Ribeiro 2013-06-18T03:07:41-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-yahoo-discloses-user-data-requests-270947.html?source=nww_rss Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday. John Ribeiro 2013-06-18T01:52:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-amd-reboots-server-strategy-with-270946.html?source=nww_rss Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and more powerful than its existing low-power x86 server processors. Agam Shah 2013-06-18T12:03:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-open-data-center-alliance-tackles-270945.html?source=nww_rss The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. James Niccolai 2013-06-17T11:16:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-newsgator39s-sharepoint-add-on-tries-to-270944.html?source=nww_rss NewsGator has upgraded its Social Sites enterprise social networking (ESN) add-on for SharePoint to make the software better able to tailor the content, notifications and capabilities it displays for each user. Juan Carlos Perez 2013-06-17T10:37:51-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-sprint-sues-dish-clearwire-over-270943.html?source=nww_rss Sprint Nextel sued Clearwire and Dish Network on Monday in a bid to block Dish from taking over Clearwire, Sprint's majority-owned network partner. Stephen Lawson 2013-06-17T09:39:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-efficiency-will-hold-down-storage-270942.html?source=nww_rss Lean storage techniques will keep a lid on storage investments over the next few years, though the world's enterprises still are on track to buy 138 exabytes of storage system capacity in 2017, IDC said. Stephen Lawson 2013-06-17T08:48:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-how-apple-shook-up-the-270941.html?source=nww_rss Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. Joab Jackson 2013-06-17T08:44:25-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-nasa39s-new-astronauts-could-one-270940.html?source=nww_rss After a year and a half of culling through 6,100 applicants, NASA has chosen four men and four women to train to become astronauts and potentially travel to an asteroid or even Mars. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-17T06:18:15-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-rambus-stmicroelectronics-settle-lawsuits-sign-270939.html?source=nww_rss Much of Rambus' past is associated with lawsuits, but the company is moving forward with dispute settlements. Agam Shah 2013-06-17T06:06:42-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-why-we-can39t-stop-malicious-270938.html?source=nww_rss Security experts have been saying for years that insiders -- malicious, careless or simply unaware -- are a greater threat to organizations, both public and private, than hackers. Taylor Armerding 2013-06-17T05:03:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-scientist-out-to-break-amdahl39s-270935.html?source=nww_rss Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models. Agam Shah 2013-06-17T04:41:51-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-oracle39s-q4-results-what-to-270936.html?source=nww_rss Many eyes in the tech world will fall on Oracle later this week, when the vendor's fourth-quarter results are set for release. This is typically the biggest reporting period for Oracle each year in terms of revenue, but a number of questions loom beyond its top-line performance. Chris Kanaracus 2013-06-17T04:27:28-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-now-a-robot-with-nine-270934.html?source=nww_rss Swiss scientists have created a cat-like robot with the stability and agility to one day be used in search-and-rescue missions. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-17T03:33:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-iphone6-270933.html?source=nww_rss Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept of what iPhone 6 might look like with the new software. Bob Brown 2013-06-17T03:32:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-google-tests-internet-connectivity-via-270931.html?source=nww_rss Google launched high-altitude balloons in a test to create a wireless network that could provide Internet access to remote and underserved parts of the world. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-17T02:39:10-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-samsung39s-galaxy-s4-doubles-download-270927.html?source=nww_rss Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of running on LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. Matt Hamblen 2013-06-17T02:17:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-uk-spy-agency-reportedly-intercepted-270928.html?source=nww_rss British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly intercepted the electronic communications of foreign politicians during G20 meetings that took place in London in 2009. Lucian Constantin 2013-06-17T02:17:30-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-most-data-breaches-caused-by-270929.html?source=nww_rss When it comes to data breaches, hackers and organized crime garner most of the headlines, but most data breaches are caused by human errors and system glitches--application failures, inadvertent data dumps, logic errors in data transfer and more. As a result, educating your employees and making sure they're not cutting corners is a big component in preventing data breaches. Thor Olavsrud 2013-06-17T02:13:08-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-project-loon-270925.html?source=nww_rss Google engineers are planning to test a system aimed at providing accessible Internet service to parts of the world with insufficient communications infrastructure – a collection of high-flying balloons equipped with specialized radios, dubbed Project Loon. Jon Gold 2013-06-17T02:11:41-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-us-nsa-can-access-data-270926.html?source=nww_rss Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets' phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources. Grant Gross 2013-06-17T02:06:47-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-five-ways-the-sprint-clearwire-drama-270924.html?source=nww_rss The battle of takeovers among Sprint Nextel, Dish Network, Clearwire and SoftBank has heated up as Clearwire's board recommended shareholders accept Dish's bid instead of Sprint's. Stephen Lawson 2013-06-17T01:50:01-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-apple-pushing-iphone-4-in-270923.html?source=nww_rss As rumors of Apple's budget iPhone continue to circulate, the U.S. tech giant has been pushing sales of its older iPhone 4 model in China as a way to grab market share in the nation's mid-tier market, according to research firm IDC. Michael Kan 2013-06-17T01:28:04-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-prism-doesn39t-have-cios-in-270921.html?source=nww_rss Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions. Chris Kanaracus 2013-06-17T11:56:15-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-get-new-it-pros-up-270920.html?source=nww_rss In a recent TekSystems survey, 1,500 IT leaders and 2,400 IT pros were polled on the importance of onboarding. When IT leaders were asked about onboarding's importance, the majority agreed that it's necessary but that many aren't doing it well. Rich Hein 2013-06-17T11:04:32-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-samsung-mass-produces-14gbs-pcie-270918.html?source=nww_rss Samsung has started mass shipments of its XP941 PCIe flash drive, a card for untra-slim notebooks that delivers a sequential read performance of 1,400MB/s throughput. Lucas Mearian 2013-06-17T10:40:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-5-ways-to-evaluate-your-270919.html?source=nww_rss IT outsourcing has become increasingly integral to building and operating the enterprise IT environment, but many IT services customers remain frustrated with their results. Stephanie Overby 2013-06-17T10:30:33-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-feedly-starts-moving-users-to-270916.html?source=nww_rss Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service. Gregg Keizer 2013-06-17T10:18:08-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-european-trust-in-us-compromised-270917.html?source=nww_rss Europe's top privacy watchdog and the Digital Agenda Commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the United States following the Prism scandal. Jennifer Baker 2013-06-17T10:15:25-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-wifi-spotlight-270915.html?source=nww_rss Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and it is up to IT to bring it orchestrate this new mobile symphony. John Dix 2013-06-17T09:39:16-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-rising-ssl-traffic-to-degrade-270909.html?source=nww_rss Drop in performance caused by extra workload required to decrypt data packets to look for malicious code, then re-encrypting before sending Antone Gonsalves 2013-06-17T09:11:32-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-red-hat-openstack-270908.html?source=nww_rss Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack. Brandon Butler 2013-06-17T09:01:46-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-it-morphs-as-tech-and-270895.html?source=nww_rss As the consumerization of IT and self-service trends gain momentum, IT's role is changing from technology implementer to technology enabler. Lucas Mearian 2013-06-17T06:18:10-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-more-malware-is-traveling-on-270896.html?source=nww_rss Hackers have found a devious new way to disseminate malware: They're using peer-to-peer networks. Lucian Constantin 2013-06-17T06:18:08-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-experts-support-google-in-oracle39s-270898.html?source=nww_rss Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. James Niccolai 2013-06-17T06:18:05-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-data-that39s-here-today-could-270899.html?source=nww_rss As one of the computer scientists who created the Internet's TCP/IP protocol, Vinton Cerf is concerned that much of the data created since then, and for years to come, will be lost. Patrick Thibodeau 2013-06-17T06:18:03-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-byod-270833.html?source=nww_rss As enterprises implement BYOD initiatives, IT managers have some key decisions to make: who purchases the devices, who pays for data plans and carrier contracts, and how does the company manage a mix of corporate and personal access to data on the devices. IDG Insider John S. Webster 2013-06-17T06:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-apple-received-thousands-of-data-270884.html?source=nww_rss Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data from U.S. law enforcement between Dec. 1 and May 31, the company said on Monday. Loek Essers 2013-06-17T04:41:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061713-china-trounces-us-in-top500-270883.html?source=nww_rss The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Joab Jackson 2013-06-17T03:01:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061513-facebook-microsoft-disclose-little-on-270881.html?source=nww_rss Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday. Martyn Williams 2013-06-15T05:40:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061513-7-essentials-for-defending-against-270880.html?source=nww_rss Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything. George V. Hulme 2013-06-14T08:01:22-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-samsung39s-next-big-thing-born-270879.html?source=nww_rss Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley? Martyn Williams 2013-06-14T06:44:54-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-internet-society-urges-transparency-in-270878.html?source=nww_rss Greater transparency, as well as respect for the Internet's open architecture and multi-stakeholder participation, are needed to help guide discussions around intellectual property policy on the Internet, according to the Internet Society. Zach Miners 2013-06-14T05:48:10-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-microsoft-sticks-it-to-the-270877.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft's surprise launch of Office Mobile for the iPhone today shows that the software giant continues to favor Windows' future over Office's fortune, analysts said today. Gregg Keizer 2013-06-14T05:23:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-facebook-to-announce-mysterious-new-270872.html?source=nww_rss Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Zach Miners 2013-06-14T05:22:54-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-digital-surveillance-programs-in-other-270876.html?source=nww_rss Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting. Idg News Service Staff 2013-06-14T05:08:53-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-as-once-mighty-symbian-enters-hospice-270874.html?source=nww_rss Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms. Matt Hamblen 2013-06-14T04:56:03-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-facebook-to-announce-mysterious-new-270875.html?source=nww_rss Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil next week at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Zach Miners 2013-06-14T04:52:17-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-facebook-sets-new-product-reveal-270873.html?source=nww_rss Facebook is gearing up for a product announcement on June 20, but isn't saying what it has planned. Computerworld Staff 2013-06-14T04:19:57-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-oxford-english-dictionary-breaks-own-270870.html?source=nww_rss Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-14T03:58:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-39stop-watching-us39-coalition-aims-270871.html?source=nww_rss Reddit, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others from across the political spectrum join forces to flood members of Congress with letters seeking revisions to the Patriot Act and reforms that will rein in the NSA's surveillance of Internet and phone records via a program known as PRISM. Kenneth Corbin 2013-06-14T03:56:05-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-google-glass-could-get-a-270867.html?source=nww_rss While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses. Sharon Gaudin 2013-06-14T03:14:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-nyc-wants-its-old-mechanical-lever-270866.html?source=nww_rss The New York City Board of Elections is hoping to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the city's mayoral primary in September. Jaikumar Vijayan 2013-06-14T02:41:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-best-buy-gets-the-best-270862.html?source=nww_rss While Microsoft gained space in 600 Best Buy stores yesterday, the electronics retailer got the better end of the deal, an analyst said. Gregg Keizer 2013-06-14T01:27:22-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-does-encryption-really-shield-you-270863.html?source=nww_rss If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time. Zach Miners 2013-06-14T01:19:29-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-ibm-remolds-db2-105-as-270861.html?source=nww_rss In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs. Joab Jackson 2013-06-14T12:53:11-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-businesses-slow-walk-classified-data-sharing-efforts-270860.html?source=nww_rss Costs, skepticism dampen participation in Enhanced Cybersecurity Services initiative John P. Mello Jr. 2013-06-14T12:35:03-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-iphone6-270859.html?source=nww_rss Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere leaning-in to read the soggy remains and figure out what the heck is happening with iPhone 6. John Cox 2013-06-14T12:21:47-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-ceo-pay-270856.html?source=nww_rss The U.S. tech industry has fared well amid the fiscal doom and gloom, and its economic fortitude is reflected in the jumbo pay packages of some tech CEOs. Ann Bednarz 2013-06-14T12:02:06-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-obama-directs-agencies-to-move-270857.html?source=nww_rss U.S. President Barack Obama has directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators, in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services. Grant Gross 2013-06-14T11:52:52-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-eu-justice-commissioner-on-prism-270858.html?source=nww_rss Europe's Justice Commission said Friday that she would not sacrifice European citizens' rights for United States' national security. Jennifer Baker 2013-06-14T11:47:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-instart-logic-270855.html?source=nww_rss Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices. Tim Greene 2013-06-14T11:40:37-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-european-and-us-cloud-providers-270854.html?source=nww_rss European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programs such as Prism. Mikael Rickna$?s 2013-06-14T11:19:05-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-oracle-to-ship-40-security-270852.html?source=nww_rss Oracle is set to release a patch set for Java SE that targets 40 security vulnerabilities. Chris Kanaracus 2013-06-14T10:57:46-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-intel-wants-to-be-your-270853.html?source=nww_rss Intel wants to create a virtual cable service that would bundle TV channels for subscribers. But cable providers are expected to put up a fight. Lucas Mearian 2013-06-14T10:55:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-ipad5-270851.html?source=nww_rss With Apple's WWDC providing actual news and, you know, facts, the iOSphere seemed like a hot air balloon that was rapidly cooling and losing not only altitude but attitude. Blogs and tech sites seemed to flounder in finding something to say that could compete with reality. John Cox 2013-06-14T10:41:19-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-french-appeals-court-confirms-twitter-270850.html?source=nww_rss A French court of appeal has rejected a move by Twitter seeking to shield the identities of those responsible for posts last year contravening French laws on hate speech and carrying the hashtag #unbonjuif (a good Jew). Peter Sayer 2013-06-14T10:28:39-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-some-foreign-backed-us-phone-companies-270848.html?source=nww_rss At least two U.S. mobile operators, T-Mobile US and Verizon Wireless, reportedly do not participate directly in the U.S. National Security Agency's call metadata collection program because of their partial ownership by foreign telecommunication companies. Lucian Constantin 2013-06-14T09:59:34-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-local-developer-aims-to-bring-270845.html?source=nww_rss How do you build a blockbuster app in Myanmar, one of Asia's poorest countries? You go and ask a fortune teller for help, according to 25-year-old Htoo Myint Naung, a local developer. Michael Kan 2013-06-14T09:46:23-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-federal-regulators-address-rising-security-270844.html?source=nww_rss Issues recommendations, noting existing 'vulnerabilities ... that could directly impact medical devices or hospital network operations' Antone Gonsalves 2013-06-14T09:38:32-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-microsoft-office-365-lands-in-270843.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers. Loek Essers 2013-06-14T09:03:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061413-siemens-looking-to-unload-share-270841.html?source=nww_rss Siemens has started talks with private-equity firms about the sale of its share in Nokia Siemens Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Mikael Rickna$?s 2013-06-14T08:03:55-04:00