Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The bug hasn’t been used outside of the lab to compromise a user’s phone, yet it continues to get a lot of attention
Made change in November 2015 with 1511 upgrade
CEO tells IT staff he's ‘pleased’ to announce new tech plan
Twitter says Dataminr is not authorized to sell the data for surveillance purposes
Apple CEO Tim Cook says there's nothing to see with those lower sales, but there will be quite the things to see in iPhone 7 and beyond
Developers will now be able to offer their software at a volume discount for businesses
Microsoft releases its latest security report, includes information about its cloud services for the first time
'The data is fake,' one security expert suggests
At Apache: Big Data North America in Vancouver next week -- alongside a huge array of keynotes, panels and tutorials -- the ASF and ODPi will host a Q&A session about their collaboration and address concerns about project independence.
Oracle says Android usurped the mobile OS market from Sun. Google says Sun just never built a decent product
Apple continues to make headway in the business world. This week it landed a significant partnership with SAP that could have a major impact on mobile productivity.
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Malicious apps could exploit the flaw to access SMS messages and call histories
The investigation follows a patent infringement allegation by Creative Technology
In the artifical intelligence world, bad design is as much a worry as good
The companies have also signed a long-term patent cross-license agreement
Ethernet may be ubiquitous but it’s not done yet as storage, automotive, data center and service provider applications are all in the future
Cloud, OpenStack, networking expertise in open source sought by those filling jobs
Native iOS apps and an SDK are on the way
EMILY is a 25lb, 4ft-long, bright orange, red and yellow colored buoy powered by a jet engine similar to a mini jet ski and travels up to 22 MPH
Hot 802.11ac networks can be faster than the backhaul that feeds them
"This has been devastating for us," says Verizon business customer
Intel's Itanium, Wi-Di, maker boards, and other products could be on the chopping block
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho, is looking to leverage its IT management domain expertise to offer a self-service IT analytics solution to help IT better utilize the data it generates.
But skeptics continue to doubt that the company will kill the free upgrade
The EMC-VMware spinout has already raised $358M and counts GE as an investor
Candidates should talk more about cybersecurity and other tech issues, trade groups say
Infrastructure automation vendor Puppet has lots of fight left, as it hires up and blasts through temporary trends
The company failed in smartphones because of ill-advised decisions and bad timing
The company's new SSDs start at $40.99 and have capacities from 120GB to 960GB
With smart city technology, K.C. envisions autonomous vehicles, water pipe monitoring, even drones to find missing elderly
IoT brings together two technology worlds, so leaders should too
Server NICs, switches from Cisco, HP’s Aruba, Fluke, NetGear and others demonstrate NBase-T interoperability
TIME calls the iPhone the most influential gadget of all time. The original Apple Mac and the iPod also make the list.
JavaScript and Excel and Amazon Web Services Jedi need apply
How to ensure your hardware is actually dead and not a zombie lurking inside your data center
Cisco Executive Chair warns about not tying commercial drones into overall IoT strategy
NASA says wireless technology could let airports grow and change more affordably by replacing old underground systems
And the rise of retail clouds
Blog owners will have the option to automatically redirect all visitors to the HTTPS version
The company will open up a 5-qubit quantum processor to everyone through the cloud
The U.K. advertising watchdog has set out new rules for ISPs advertising their services
After learning lessons getting off Windows XP, enterprises should sail to 10
iPaaS connects many clouds together and could be a $1 billion market soon
Apple, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions & Qualcomm flying high after drone exemption petitions approved
Cisco sees network infrastructure, collaboration, security and other opportunities in commercial drones
Cisco, AT&T, Verizon and others have begun to make their moves in the commercial drone market
FAA Section 333 exemptions for commercial drone projects, hottest UAS applications and more
The collaboration platform's roadmap also includes machine learning-based capabilities and more
DoJ says scheme involved 12,000 fraudulent federal income tax returns that sought refunds of at least $42 million from the U.S. Treasury
