Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
New reporting rules could make IT equipment leasing less attractive, but lessors may be more amenable to meet client demands or offer new value-added services to win over customers.
The kinds of tools that built one of the most remarkable AIs of the year are now available for any business to use
The move had been criticized as encroaching on the privacy of the visitors
The black market value of stolen medical records dropped dramatically this year
Annual Apple iTunes Connect shutdown starts on Friday, Dec. 23
The app routes requests through Google's servers to make it harder for governments to block them
This Andreesen Horowitz VC believes the cloud will be replaced by edge computing
The US Trade Representative says IP holders find it difficult to report fakes and get quick action
The companies are at odds over fair licensing of the H.264 video codec and other technologies
Chatbot onslaught, 5G hype machine on tap for 2017; plus looking back on 2016 predictions
How AllRecipes uses the cloud to power through the holiday cooking rush
Apple has refused to negotiate for licenses for the H.264 video codec and other Nokia technologies, the company alleges
Nmap 7.40 has new scripts that give IT administrators improved network mapping and port scanning capabilities
Now you can finally get an answer on those strange error codes
Systems with human-like intelligence still a good 20 years away, says White House CTO
According to this year’s data, global cybersecurity confidence fell six points over 2016 to earn an overall score of 70 percent.
Hacking groups with increasing scale and sophistication challenge every sized enterprise to defend themselves
The future of data transfers between the EU and US is uncertain, companies say
The product manager at Google says the company “must let the sun shine in”
The bipartisan panel advises Congress to look into using legal hacking methods to break into tech products
Tech vendors lay it on thick, are "impossibly sorry" for breaking your hearts and trust in 2016
A behind-the-scenes look at how the managed services company went private and its new managed cloud offerings
Are you one of those people who buys last minute and non-refundable airfares? SpareFare might be your savior.
BlackBerry reported another quarter of losses and declining revenue, but CEO John Chen says the company is turning the corner
Ransomware increasingly hits businesses, hospitals, public utilities, public transit systems and even police departments
Ukraine's national power company investigates whether hacking caused blackout in Kiev
Integrating the data created from the VOSS-4-UC suite with the LayerX analytic engine makes it easier to manage Unified Communications applications
Blame Methbot: The victims pay premium prices for eyeballs but get none
IT managers may already be considering increase costs in their calculations
Developers can use Project Wycheproof to test cryptographic algorithms against a library of known attacks to uncover potential weaknesses
Combination of services could create a massive world map of locations
The complaint alleges that Google changed its policy in June to combine personal and browsing data
Law enforcement use needs to be better regulated
Cisco: WAN design, Internet of Things, SDN and other developing network changes on the menu
A report from Asia claims hardware makers are quite interested
Two Android trojans that steal financial information and login credentials now double as file-encrypting ransomware programs
Intel's Joule 550x is available for $349 at Mouser and $291 at Newegg, which are huge markups
Cisco, Google, IBM and others are moving to get the humans out of enterprise security defense
Enterprises go heavy and hard to the cloud as machine learning, serverless computing and containers advance
Ireland's Department of Finance has published the arguments it intends to make against the ruling, while Apple is now ready to file its appeal
The online learning platform reset passwords for close to 55,000 affected users
Obama is hopeful incoming president Donald Trump will take the hacking seriously
The company also revealed functionality that helps organize people
Dirty devices at the edge sometimes send messy data to the cloud
Custom-made Thunderbolt devices can be used to extract the encryption password from locked Macs
The company will anonymize data that employees see to help with machine learning
The BlackBerry smartphone is dead: Long live the BlackBerry smartphone
