Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Soon to offer a low-cost femtocell service, MagicJack may try a clever legal argument
Despite recession, IBM hits an all-time high in patents awarded, Microsoft lands top three and U.S. companies overall gain significant ground
U.S. companies lag slightly behind foreign counterparts in the number of patents awarded in 2009.
The move gives the suite an important online storage component
Most likely reason for Chinese search giant's outage: Username/password for Register.com pillaged
SAN allows automated tiering between drives, and RAID types
Earlier survey shows Facebook leads to lower grades, but UNH study says users are rested
A new survey reveals that businesses don't find much intelligence in social media yet
As with baseball, tech scouts may be widely used, but few firms so boldly advertise for them
How WiTricity transfers energy using resonance, and where the company sees the tech going
An industry groups expects 4.3 million 3D TVs to ship this year, but some others expect it to be far less
Royal Caribbean teams with Cisco to provide luxury services
Copyright law should reflect new ways of creating art and content, a filmmaker says
IBM moves come less than a week before annual Lotusphere conference
PDF patches due later today more important than lone fix from Microsoft
Tech recovery expected in 2010 by Forrester; spending on software, hardware and communications could rebound
After more than a year of starts and stops, data rolls out of the Big Bang machine
Flash Player bundled with Windows XP is buggy, admits company
Social networking giant looking to help open source group thrive
Warren East says Intel has no advantage in smartphone chip development and manufacturing
Google called unprepared to handle consumer problems
Two more security deals come on heels of Cisco’s Rohati acquisition
Combined with carrier TMobile's ETF fees, early return costs could reach $550
Following attacks targeting Gmail accounts of human rights activists, Google will stop censorship of Google.cn
The company has posted four jobs with the word "monetization" in the title
CA acquires Oblicore to augment its cloud vendor management and cloud service assurance capabilities
Tweet makes Word of the Year, while Google beats blog for top word of the '00s
Since the site is still open, founders have to pay, according to record companies
Bad actors said to vie for a cut of Google's AdWords, defrauding advertisers
The cloud service uses encryption, deduplication and compression to increase performance
No longer just about integration, SOA is spreading through the enterprise for business-process alignment, among other things
On injunction deadline, Microsoft yanks all but one edition; Other online retailers have suite to sell
The state's officials have released a plan to build cybersecurity expertise and research
The company plans a big push for sustainability products for the upcoming year
Artificial intelligence should enable robot to speak, carry on conversations
Some firms have been unable to activate, use apps for a month
The move comes after not enough employees participated in a program to walk away voluntarily in December
Dubious apps appear, then disappear, from Google's Android Market
Body imaging technologies can store, transmit images of airline passengers, EPIC says
One privacy advocate contends Facebook is pushing users to expect less privacy
Adult movie makers are excited about 3D technologies but say it is expensive to produce and the glasses have to go
