Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
'We wanted to make search more social,' CEO Mark Zuckerberg says of the new tool
Software and IT services in the US smart energy delivery market is likely to grow by 20 percent between 2011 and 2012, a study predicts
Microsoft System Center SP1 allows customers to manage Azure services and on-premises Microsoft assets from a single console
Dell's market capitalization and recent transition struggles could create problems in finding potential investors
Forrester says North American security execs work harder but European teams have more money for IT security budgets
Virtually silent while Cisco, others plot software-defined networking strategies, Juniper's pushes new software licensing model
Muglia emphasizes new software model flexibility, says Juniper's revenue mix will shift
SpectorSoft adds enterprise support for BlackBerry platform but not Android or Apple iOS
Dell has designed a cloud service for retailers, joining other companies that carve out services aimed at specific vertical niches
Seculert researchers identified a Java exploit and corresponding attack pages on Red October command and control servers
Access points use Wi-Fi data to 'see' mobile users at stores
The deals for Innoveer Solutions and Navigis strengthen its Salesforce.com and ServiceNow practices
EMC security division says new approaches to go beyond SIEM
Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is applied too broadly in alleged data theft cases, critics say
Gartner, IDC both agree HP now top in the global PC market
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth backers say the proposal might hurt performance, but Globalstar says it won't
The Department of Homeland Security finds critical systems still lacking basic protections, despite years of warnings
It is not know whether the operation was state-sponsored or a criminal group gathering information to sell to the highest bidder
Energy Star ratings could lead to more power-efficient tablets
Social network schedules mysterious press conference for Tuesday
Megaupload's charges against the DOJ are 'baseless,' the agency says
Security, math and sysadmin, take a bow!
Unemployment in the tech industry is less than half of that in the general population, Dice says
The attackers used custom malware to target organizations from 39 countries, Kaspersky Lab says
Dunn, two other execs acquitted in accounting scandal that precipitated company's fall
HP is betting big on cloud to help turn the company around, and now it has a new networking executive to lead the effort
Don't blame Windows 8 or the economy for poor PC sales, analyst says
Asus' $149 Memo Pad tablet challenges the $199 tablets
Researcher stands by accusation that Oracle should have fixed one of the flaws last fall
The browser will first become available in Egypt
Protests continue online with the MIT website hacked
More than 1,000 workers went on strike which was supressed by riot police
The emergency fix repairs two vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited by a malicious website
Users of both devices consume more cellular data than tablet users
If convicted of allegations he hacked into an MIT network and stole millions of scholarly articles, he faced up to 35 years in jail
Blames touch notebook shortages and uninspired designs for 6.5% fall in PC shipments last quarter
