Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Smart TVs collected detailed viewing habits without customer knowledge
DARPA research system akin to aircraft carriers’ launch and trap system for military aircraft
Recent email-based malware distribution campaigns have used malicious LNK and SVG attachments instead of JavaScript
We hear a lot about autonomous vehicles and the benefits they can bring the world. ZeroStack wants to use that metaphor for IT infrastructure.
Intel's Unite collaboration software is breaking away from PC-only product and into the data center, IoT, and virtual reality
Endpoint protection technology detects non-malware attacks
The printers were forced to print rogue messages that claimed they were now part of a botnet
Companies like Apple, Google and Facebook say their operations will be impacted by the executive order of Jan. 27
Wall Street fretted when AWS’ earnings grew ‘only’ 47% in Q4 of 2016. Here’s why analysts are wrong to worry about the cloud.
Finding and evaluating Azure apps should be much easier
An appeals court had taken a different view in a lawsuit involving Microsoft
A government agency agreed with Samsung's view that faulty batteries caused the Note7 to overheat
The Yoga A12 replaces the hard keyboard with a touch panel one
Nvidia's Quadro GP100 is targeted at content creation and engineering applications, delivering 12 teraflops of double-precision performance
Plans layoffs; asserts that Firefox browser is on the way back from the brink
AT&T teams with the Linux Foundation on critical open-source SDN infrastructure software to demonstrate new 5G applications
ICE and DHS continue team effort to combat counterfeiters
The vulnerability can be exploited to crash Windows systems
President Trump will sign your EO, and yes, it's fake news
Micron plans to ship GDDR6 graphics memory this year
The vulnerability was publicly disclosed before being patched and researchers are still debating its impact
IBM's MobileFirst for iOS initiative is now well into its third year. The head of the program and two of its customers talk to CIO.com about progress, challenges and plans for 2017.
The company aims to lower the cost of its phones by making them locally
Snap has agreed to a minimum annual cloud bill roughly equal to its 2016 revenue
Apple pumped up the price of its smartphones with the iPhone 7 Plus, and could do likewise with its 2017 iPhone 8 devices
IRS says W-2 scam, which first appeared last year, is circulating earlier in the tax season and to a broader cross-section of organizations
The sanction targeted Russia's FSB, a crucial IT regulator that U.S. tech firms must work with
Pushes back against executive order, wants process to let people with 'pressing needs' come and go for business trips and family emergencies
Standards for 5G still not coming until 2018
The PC market needs a jump-start, and Microsoft has some ideas
Internet Society, celebrating its 25th anniversary, opens up nomination process for Internet Hall of Fame's Class of 2017
The vulnerability could allow hackers to take over servers used by ISPs to manage subscribers and their gateway devices
Certain models Cisco’s Series 4000 Integrated Services Routers, Nexus 9000 Series switches, ASA security devices, Meraki Cloud Managed Switches could fail
Android support coming soon to help people process email without leaving mobile Outlook
Arista Data ANalyZer (DANZ 2017) provides scalable end-to-end network and application monitoring
IBM Watson teams with H&R Block tax service; watch for the Super Bowl commercial
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet are preparing a letter to President Trump protesting offering to help improve immigration policy
The flaw could allow unauthenticated users to modify any post or page in a WordPress site
Launch of NSX-T meant to encourage non-VMware customers to use virtual networking platform
First-ever down year for Apple in a 'roller coaster' market, IDC says
Chrome continues march towards 60%; Firefox slips under 12% again
The company in 2012 hired Infosys, a major H-1B visa user
The carrier has released ECOMP, the operating system for its network, as open source
Find out if you, too, would be hooked by these scams.
High-profile breaches are just the tip of the iceberg. Many have never been detected or disclosed--and without a major infrastructure changes it's only going to get worse
Niara’s software helps enterprises detect and protect from threats that have penetrated perimeter defenses
Researchers have noticed growing activity from online black market dealers trying to recruit company insiders for cyber crime
Draft of his executive order seeks incentives for private business to beef up defenses
20 "Nobel Prize of Computing" laureates expected to attend June event from ACM
Or, if you prefer, non-secret messages from the dryer, and robots solving problems for you, whether you wanted them to or not!
