Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Employers will pay more for certified -- and experienced -- IT security pros, studies find
Foxconn said it received prior notificaiton of Sharp's deal with Samsung
Swartz's family had blamed the government for his suicide
For retailers, it means orders paid with bitcoin are automatically sent to Amazon for shipping
While two-factor authentication is not a silver bullet, it is a necessary step toward better security, said one analyst
There is no correlation between what people pay and the quality of healthcare they get, Clinton told health IT professionals
The author of a phone-unlocking petition targets broader reform of the copyright law
The new Deutsche Telekom service unveiled at Cebit provides statistics and real-time data on cyberattacks
A new bill from Lofgren and other lawmakers targets a 27-year-old electronic surveillance law
The U.S. Justice Department has let its review period pass without taking action against the deal
What to expect in the emerging world of cloud forensics
The first products will arrive toward the end of the year
Reports claim Microsoft's slashed Windows prices for smaller touchscreen notebooks and tablets
Open Ethernet initiative to broaden appeal of data center switches
Boston provides the tools to port x86 code to ARM, which can then be tested over the cloud, reducing the need to buy an ARM server
The court ruled that paying LinkedIn users were not promised better security than non-paying ones and are not entitled to damages
Rackspace releases updated version of its OpenStack-powered private cloud platform
The startup claims to have found a way to bring consistency to NoSQL data stores
The iPad 5 date data debate rages; rhetorical flourish turns rumor into fact
All based on one analyst's one-month estimate of display shipments
Commission acknowledges it was naive to allow the company to monitor itself
Australian consultancy is surprising first to offer pre-order on Ubuntu tablet
Boston-area creative firm goes all VoIP; founder calls iPhone 'irrelevant'
Why is it a lot of security firms want to have sandboxing 'like FireEye' right now?
Samsung will invest US$110 million in ailing Sharp in a deal that deepens their ties, in a possible blow for Apple
The Wireless Device Independence Act would allow consumers to "unlock cell phones for interoperability purposes"
Trend Micro checks up on Asprox, which has diversified into fake antivirus installs as well as spam
Asus reported strong growth in its tablet business in last year's fourth quarter
Data compression has been added to Chrome mobile to reduce data loads
A failure to remove bad email addresses has resulted in unintended blocks by Spamhaus
The auction site has shared a new methodology for tracking energy efficiency
Malware uses Microsoft encryption to hold computers hostage
The numbers look at national security investigations into some users
The task force would monitor proposals in the U.S. and other countries that could hurt the Internet
Some groups call for green card reform, some for entrepreneur visas, some for many reforms
Dell releases Fluid Cache 1.0, which accelerates application performance via efficient caching
JPL's Soderstrom shows Spacecraft 3D app at Premier 100
Better acceptance of Windows 8 could help a PC rebound later this year
ERP and office suites come in second and third in Gartner's survey
The virtualization specialist has built up an enterprise collaboration stack in recent years that includes Zimbra and Socialcast
Next up for IBM's supercomputer, passing the physicians licensing exam
No more working anywhere, anytime, for Best Buy's corporate employees
The lack of default certification revocation checking in Java makes the problem worse, researchers say
NextEra has adopted off-the-shelf hardware to help workers get key data anywhere
Intel has 23,500 devices and 41 applications and services in its BYOD program
