Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The outage shows why performance monitoring services are gaining ground
U.S. broadband penetration behind many developed nations, study shows
Move could lead to rivalries between Microsoft groups targeting same audience, says analyst
Real-time search, Google Goggles, personalization are changing the game
The troubled economy led vendors to adopt user-friendly policies
It's free from Time Warner but not from its troubles
Netbooks will also become faster with new Pineview chips
Shoddy customer service. Poor network coverage. Brain-dead marketing. What's next for AT&T?
Combined Avaya-Nortel portends a battle with Cisco for unified communications supremacy
Project Sydney will create secure 'virtual network overlay' for cloud computing
Cisco still the target of Avaya, HP, IBM and other data center players
Neustar offers low-cost fix to a well-known DNS problem
Carrier to earn $120M over four years under the agreement
The company posits its SPICE protocol as a next-generation RDP or ICA
Users get more control but will put more data in the public, experts say
Authorities have blocked Twitter and some of its Chinese rivals, but other microblog sites are growing
The company also plans to announce a data center in Raleigh, North Carolina in February
Acer will create phones for top, mid and low tier price levels aimed at business users and consumers
China's latest moves against porn range from online games to mobile phones to Google
But a lack of Wi-Fi is still a hurdle to sales for the official iPhone in China
Far EasTone sees 20 to 30 new Android handsets from Taiwanese makers in the first half of 2010, and more app contests
Flaw fixed this week reported by bug bounty program in June
The specification promises 7-gigabit speed and a range of more than 10 meters
Maryland developer agrees to pay $75,000 in BSA settlement
But next Cognos release won't include a cloud-based service
Deal will boost competition, not break it, Oracle will claim
CEO Tim Armstrong sings a hopeful tune as the company breaks away from Time Warner
The software helps companies focus on their strategy instead of data collection
Revises netbook upgrade tool after admitting it copied code
Venerable trade publication loses battle for survival
Microsoft's plan to buy Sentillion could help it take advantage of a potential boom in health-care technology spending
Project pays back with less power, fewer servers, reduced rack space
FTC makes five recommendations to virtual world operators to reduce explcit exposure
NASA test honeycomb airbag to protect passengers in helicopter crashes
The company is expanding the Dell EqualLogic, PowerEdge and PowerConnect lines
A GAO report finds significant customer concerns about billing and early termination fees
FCoE offers a single management layer for Ethernet and storage traffic
Old-school buffer overflows bedevil network management component
The company's failure to disclose 2007 SQL injection attack until 2009 was justified, and a lawsuit is dismissed
Antitrust issues, bad blood and merger complexity should put kibosh on an acquisition
Deal with Google provides most of Mozilla's revenues
The rules give preferential treatment to Chinese products
Aol fails to impress and Ciena reports widening loss
