Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Angela Ahrendts will join company in first half of 2014 to run both brick-and-mortar and online stores
The company is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the latest sleep analysis gadget
The helmet also includes a camera that offers a 180-degree view of the road behind
Enterprises, cloud providers and carriers all rely on Ethernet, complicating the push for a faster standard
HTC picked China for the initial launch of its latest smartphone, a sign of its interest in the country
Production of the chips has been delayed by a quarter, which could push back the release of PCs
The company's highly anticipated IPO will take place on the New York Stock Exchange
Twitter's Kevin Weil speaks out on the company's TV advertising efforts
Yahoo's revenue and profit were both down from last year, though it has more users
Trade group cites sequestration, lack of federal budget; meanwhile, government shutdown is hurting IT vendors, contractors
Weak PC sales hurt Intel's business
It would have required police to obtain a warrant for email searches
The parts can withstand temperatures of 1000 to 3000 degrees Celsius
A Kindle smartphone would follow the third-generation Kindle tablets out the door, though the timing is unclear
Colorado man wants to build a self-sustaining data center
Analyst cracks Apple's Enigma machine, sees 'cover' in the 7-word invite and speculates on keyboards
Privacy watchdog EPIC doesn't have standing to ask the court to vacate a phone records order nor to review its legality, the DOJ says
Puppet Enterprise 3.1 is designed to speed the troubleshooting process by more quickly identifying problem spots
Social Sites, an enterprise social network add-on for SharePoint, now has stronger brainstorming features
VMware says it's not just a VMware-focused company any more
Unlocked and waterproof Sony smartphones are priced from $650; SmartWatch 2 costs $200
IPO filings reveal Twitter SVP of engineering made $10.3 million last year
The company will ship cloud-based unified communications with Project Ansible next year
Yahoo plans to make HTTPS connections standard for all users starting Jan. 8
MX routers designed to scale up to 2Tbps per slot with system capacity up to 80Tbps
Take the next step, analysts urge Microsoft: Put Windows Phone on small tablets
Copyright levies on cloud computing services would be a disaster, says the Pirate Party MEP
Users have 72 hours to change their account passwords and will then be able to download their email archives
Fenwick & West director of IT Kevin Moore sees potential in it helping to speeding response to advanced malware threats
With the tool, the company wants to help IT administrators consolidate user authentication and application access
The agency collects about a half million buddy lists and email inboxes in a typical day, the newspaper reports
Aura Collaboration Environment simplifies putting communication capabilities into business apps
The company will use the new resources to expand its global reach
Startup Coho Data is unveiling a scalable "micro-array" architecture this week
Sepaton is introducing backup appliances that enterprises can combine to meet growing needs
The company also announced a number of new management tools at VMworld Europe
Tech lobbyists offer three post-crisis political outcomes for the tech industry
The almost indestructible disks would contain a record of human existence -- perhaps for alien life forms
iPhone 5C grabs slightly larger share in early sales than did the iPhone 4S last year
Industry execs discuss SLAs at McAfee Focus Conference
The backdoor lets attackers change a router configuration without authenticating
Ballmer doesn't get it, says Gartner analyst: Businesses don't want to deal with annual Windows updates
