Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
If successful, Google OS could spawn a whole new class of faster, cheaper, diskless PCs
'Browse-and-own' bug lets hackers hijack Windows XP; temp fix available
While AMD has tried to avoid selling to the low end, its chips are appearing in small laptops
Search Pad is a note-taking application for people conducting research using Yahoo's search engine
Say they will resell the software maker's Business Productivity Online Suite
The South Korean company will stop producing mobile phones in Mexico, and consolidate its LCD TV factories there
The Vaio W will take Sony into the only part of the PC market experiencing significant growth
China cut off the Internet and some phone service in Xinjiang province after 156 were killed
PureDisk deduplication will be tightly integrated with NetBackup, Backup Exec
C# and CLI are now covered by Microsoft's Community Promise, enabling open source usage of the technologies without fear of reprisals
Technology would let EU members safely share IDs
With a person's hometown and birth date mined from social networks, SSNs can be narrowed down
Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk no longer beta products
The move is intended to calm concerns among IT managers and CIOs
Social Security numbers face myriad securty problems.
Opera Mini will have broad distribution in U.S. through a deal bigger than current ones with Sprint and Virgin Mobile USA
The virtualization vendor is offering license discounts for those who want to switch
Fusion-io builds less expensive enterprise flash storage devices
Teens may spend more time online during summer vacations
Developers in the region also are looking at SOA and cloud deployments
After years in beta, Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk and Doc finally lose training wheels
Researchers uncovered latest bug in 2007; Microsoft mum on timing
Altor rewrites firewall to take advantage of VMware virtualization
But any kind of reversal of the practice would have wide implications
Hurricane Electric hails recent activity by Comcast, Verizon Wireless on next-generation Internet protocol
Vendor plans several de-dupe product releases over next year
New three-tiered architecture features server-based 'agent handler'
New SSDs to offer lower-priced SSD storage for data center applications
A Virginia man faces up to six years in prison for selling spamming software
The cases alleging dropped calls, sluggish speeds, moved to Calif.
Vista fading to black by 2012
Asia will have nearly half of the world's broadband households by 2013, Parks Associates says
Quick-boot laptops may soon get video editing and voice-based applications
No crashes detected so far though Twitter was slowed some under user pressure
The launch brings mobile WiMax to a fourth major U.S. market
Verdict 'excessive, shocking and monstrous,' says the accused, Jammie Thomas-Rasset
The company expects satellite-based routers to change global communication
The investigation is related to Acer's purchase of E-Ten Information Systems
DDR3 uses 60 percent less power than its predecessor and offers twice the bandwidth
Dubbed 'iDrain,' problem likely a software glitch, says expert
It's been a year since an engineering body said it was safe to raise the operating temperatures of servers and storage systems.
In our last comparison, the iPhone buried the BlackBerry. Can the new Palm Pre unseat the mobile champ?
BT says it wants to invest in broadband technology instead but is still interested in Phorm's Webwise
The moves added to China's long-standing efforts to control online speech
