Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
After April 8, 2104, Microsoft won't patch XP or IE on the aged OS
Social collaboration turns to secure texting to keep workers connected
The Obama administration is waiting until November to release insurance enrollment figures for the error-prone site
The company launches a new app to manage the hiring process
Private equity firm joins Fairfax and BlackBerry's co-founders in considering an offer for the phone maker
Ad is 'more than tasteless,' say prosecutors in New York and San Francisco
User complaints get through and mean ThinApp will not just be part of the Horizon suite
Samsung's upcoming Knox 2.0 will have more security features and support more devices.
ICANN and other groups call for an accelerated globalization of Internet domain name functions after NSA surveillance leaks
Analyst scoffs at conclusions that iPhone 5C is selling poorly because Apple's contractors have scaled back production for the fourth quarter
The enterprise social networking suite also got email integration and document collaboration improvements
Jamba Juice partners with Isis to help spread use of NFC-ready mobile wallet smartphones
Fingerprinting, fools' gold and grey, pixel madness
The company patched vulnerabilities affecting Java, its databases, enterprise applications and middleware
With their 72 cores, Tile-IQ co-processors can boost servers' speed by taking on Hadoop and video apps
The company uses a mixture of ARM cores and ones developed in-house to assist drivers
Hadoop 2 allows multiple applications to run simultaneously for more efficient support, Apache said
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
