Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The Healthcare.gov rollout leads a pack of painful projects
Connect's new version, due in 2014's first quarter, also lets people register for webinars using their Google and Facebook credentials
The Shanghai factory builds the iPhone 5C handset, according to China Labor Watch
The AllSeen Alliance is working on an open source framework that it says can be used to connect almost anything to the Internet
Rambus will get $280 million from a broad cross-licensing agreement
Congressional action to rein in NSA activity formally requested by leading tech companies
Those supplying services to cybercriminals are looking for places where they won't be shut down, a security company says
The new systems share common infrastructure components so they can be managed together more easily
Security and flexibility are among several big challenges, experts said
Risk-averse Goldman Sachs is an advocate of Facebook's Open Compute Project, embracing open systems, commodity computing
The goal is to attract customers that find the standard product either too pricey or too limited
Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera nullify unauthorized French certificates; Windows XP users out of luck
The carrier's data roaming plans will include LTE service, but only in Canada for now
Finjan president explains the inner workings of proactive content security with behavior-based content analysis technology
Bitcoin and tech IPOs were also hot stories this year
Agency fears terrorists may be using online gaming platforms to communicate and plot attacks
The new 840 EVO mSATA SSD is 60% thinner than a standard 2.5-in notebook drive
Sony Electronics president says 4K will be big for Sony at January's event
The certificates were used to inspect encrypted traffic on a private network, Google said
Traditional PCs continue to give up ground to smartphones and tablets
Retailers, sports teams and transit providers can use tech to get ads, directions, sale information and other info to in-venue customers
The Kafka Pub/Sub messaging platform is faster than RabbitMQ, LinkedIn engineers say
Deal first of 12 designed to drive traffic and get customers to think Windows
Dutch concerns follow rooftop spying reports form Berlin, Rome and Milan
Windows 7 final sales dates 'to be determined'
This year, according to Facebookers, was all about the royal baby, the Pope, Nelson Mandela and relationships
Pricing in the cloud computing market is extremely complex and not user friendly, a new report finds
Budget sequestration may be helping to chill market
Verizon will be able to offer more enterprise services to improve video streaming performance and protect websites against attacks
The US exerted 'great pressure' in previous negotiation rounds, the documents indicate
Last Thursday's ban on Chinese banks trading in the virtual currency is having repercussions
And they believe hospitals will someday be obsolete, survey shows
Face recognition, buckling knees, 3D sensor run riot, refocusing cam
The eight tech companies want the U.S. to lead the reforms
The carrier wants to reject a shareholder proposal calling for reports on government data requests
The Internet company could expand its entertainment offerings through the deal
PCs and servers slump but software, components for mobile devices and good economic news generate optimism
DARPA creates a set of games that covertly search for software vulnerabilities
The FCC will conduct the complex auction when its software and systems are ready, Wheeler says
Goldenshores lied to users about its flashlight app's data sharing habits, FTC says
Shoppers could start receiving notifications as they walk past the latest iPhones
CMS is working with insurance providers to identify applications with problems, an official says
The allegations are based on documents the magazine says were provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
Insists program is legal and purely outward-facing
