Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Social networking by fans and concert-goers requires big Wi-Fi bandwidth at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field
New group will promote Cisco security products but also offer new managed services
Workday Student is under development but won't be fully complete until 2016
Chinese regulators have already approved the first LTE TDD phones
Pioneers in information system security, intrusion detection among those honored
The experts will be watching more intently when Apple announces the prices of its the colorful smartphone
The add-on is priced separately and focuses on analytics for HCM (human capital management)
MIT researchers are building an antenna designed to give spacecraft the size of a shoe box a way to phone home
PayPal's Beacon technology will be rolled out early next year
The companies made a renewed push for greater transparency around data requests related to national security
Like SSDs, hard drives are up against a density wall
Data visualization is being used to help the military move equipment out of Afghanistan
MSDN and TechNet subscribers were enraged when Microsoft denied them access to the latest Win 8.1 pre-release build
On-sale date likely remains Oct. 18, when Windows 8.1 update reaches retail
Universities awarded $25 million NSF grant to create next-generation AI technologies
Icahn's withdrawal from an effort to buy out Dell paves the way for CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy the company
Also, Surface to get battery-boost keyboard, Nokia buy could lead to Surface Phone brand
Congress didn't authorize the FCC to pass net neutrality rules, Verizon's lawyer tells an appeals court
News that the NSA may have spied on Swift provokes outrage in the EU
The new version of the open source PostgreSQL database now comes with data wrappers that can both write and read data to other systems
Business Objects 4.1 is now generally available
The drive offers up to seven times the capacity of typical tablet SSDs
Includes a new chip that draws as little as 4.5 watts power in tablet usage scenarios
While enterprises revenue slows, service providers are picking up some of the slack
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate that the NSA can read certain targets' BES communications
China has been stepping up measures to crack down on online rumors
Dark Matter Labs rolling out private-key encryption storage package for cloud services
But the average starting salary for new computer science graduates said to be down this year by 2.5%
The premium version costs $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year
The Wi-Fi Alliance plans WiGig certification starting next year
Facebook launched two APIs to allow news organisations to include user comments
LADEE spacecraft now working well as it heads to the moon for dual missions
Google offered the European Commission new concessions to settle a long-running antitrust investigation case last week
The company described it as a concept and did not release details on commercial availability of the product
New suite of apps include productivity tools, games
Sony plans to start selling its 4K camcorder in October
Betting firms shorten odds on the former Nokia chief executive, make him the front-runner by far
The annual electronics fest saw many new products
