Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
No deal, says USPTO; 'mini' is 'merely descriptive' of the tablet's size
A U.S. funding law calls for increased scrutiny on IT purchases for select federal agencies
Paints a gloomy picture of the PC business, emphasizes Windows 8 troubles and a decrease in Windows 7 sales
Southeastern, now a critic of the deal, first approached Michael Dell about a buyout plan
Dell believes an ARM supercomputer will be applicable in specific use cases
The vendor is seeking a declaratory judgment against patent holder Pi-Net International
What Samsung says it will offer on the Galaxy S4 has stymied developers for years
Arista Networks data center switch software now supports OpenFlow, OpenStack
Microsoft has hired a model-maker to build prototypes
'Talk about bare bones,' says one security professional of the scanty information Microsoft offers
The BIND software maintainers encourage server administrators to disable regular expression support or install patches as soon as possible
April 4 Facebook media event has experts expecting -- again -- that the social networking firm will unveil an Android smartphone
More and move vendors are turning to Twitter to host chats with users, thought leaders
Plans all-SSD array, 300TB 5U hard drive array and compression
Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 scuttlebutt: The June boon, chopped fingers, AppleBerry, stormy iClouds
First market outside the U.S. and Canada to get the Windows 8 tablet
Mt. Gox said it had suffered a strong distributed denial-of-service attack
China's state-run media had earlier slammed Apple for alleged problems in its warranty policies
NASA astronaut says, 'We feel great,' as rocket blasts off for 6-hour trip
Former US secretary of state offers career advice for women
Competition has led to 29 price reductions in 14 months among big-four cloud providers
While agreeing DDoS speed was high, Keynote Systems says news media went too far in saying there was a 'slowdown' on entire Internet
Calls on other companies to get with a patent transparency program
The company will also work to eliminate Huawei gear from Clearwire's network
That figure could soar to $6B annually by 2017
Google's early stage Shopping Express experiment is currently open to San Francisco Bay Area residents
Research firm forecasts mobile virtualization overtaking MDM, sees bright future for HTML5
The criminal group rigged POS devices in European shopping centers with rogue card readers and malware, Europol said
An easy pledge for Google to make, because patent licensing is not their business model, an analyst said
Juniper does not have a migration plan for current EX8200 users to EX9200 40/100G Ethernet/SDN switch
Soyuz capsule will launch and rendezvous with ISS in 6 hours, not 2 days
Kevin Kennedy says managed unified communications services are more attractive
Avaya CEO says company debt woes are under control
It's not clear whether Uniloc, which has sued many other tech companies, will appeal the judge's ruling
Group-IB researchers believe the malware has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards in the US
1 million Z10 BlackBerry smartphones sold in first month
Hortonworks distributes a version of the open source big data Hadoop platform, and has some new big-name partners, including Microsoft, Teradata and Rackspace
Sony will likely meet its goal of making a profit this fiscal year, rebounding from a record loss
Warnings of security problems posed by poorly configured DNS servers go mostly unheeded for years
The security checks were included in a new funding law signed earlier this week
Eric J. Rosol could face up to 10 years in prison besides fines
Google took its Street View cars to the exclusion-zone city of Namie-machi
