Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Sprint's proposed $2.1 billion acquisition of the other half of Clearwire is almost bound to happen eventually, analysts say
Banks are likely to be better protected against this wave of attacks, Arbor Networks researchers say
McAfee has detected malware activity linked to an online fraud operation allegedly planned by cybercriminals
Largest US wholesale plumbing supply company, Ferguson Enterprises, needed rugged handset to support route optimization and customer service apps
Out come the knives as Motorola (Google?) goes after Samsung
Adobe's decision to fix Flash on Patch Tuesday forces Google to update Chrome the same day
Rackspace rolls out Database as a service tool Cloudant weeks after Amazon Web Services launches a data warehousing product for its cloud
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will start a pilot deployment in early 2013
Dell appliance secures, controls iOS, Android devices in enterprise
Clearwire's spectrum, SoftBank's cash will power Sprint's LTE push
Oracle was the biggest loser as users remain skeptical of the company's long-range commitment
The operation exemplifies how deep technical knowledge is not needed to run a lucrative botnet
Microsoft finds widespread piracy in PCs sold in China, warns consumers in new campaign
Japan's National Police Agency has posted a US$36,000 reward for a case in which it wrongly arrested men with hacked PCs
Contrail was in stealth with a network virtualization controller
The Internet Society raised an alarm over the ITU meeting amending and passing an Internet resolution
The decisions should help new or existing carriers boost their mobile capacity
Government's forecast for next 15 to 20 years gives tech a big role; including big data, robotics, smart cities and anarchic social networks
Microsoft may be motivated to bow to Apple's demands, says analyst
The sharing plan could lead to innovation in small cell technology, FCC officials say
Twitter sends social manager to Rome to help the Vatican with its social media presence
Men trust online information more than women
Industrial design rights applications are also rising -- but Apple, an aggressive asserter of such rights, files relatively few applications
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall have been combined for easier deployments
It was a busy year for Cisco.
Also at issue is whether human rights should be addressed
Instead of over provisioning networks, HP's new program allows enterprises to only pay for the ports they use
EMC joins Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Red Hat, VMware and others in officially sponsoring the open source cloud platform, which it says is an emerging technology in cloud platforms
Avaya has incorporated video networking technology it purchased from Radvision into its UC platform
A 64-bit Atom chip designed for special types of workloads, while the world waits for 64-bit ARM
Smartphone insecurity means healthcare patient information, for one, remains at high risk, studies find
In a world of tweets and webinars, IT pros are still getting some value the old-fashioned way: books.
For Gen Yers in many countries, a smartphone acts like an appendage, survey finds
The vulnerability marketplace was hacked by the Inj3ct0r Team, which also runs its own vulnerability marketplace
The company announced a chip with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM radio and NFC
Martin Casado divulges software-defined network vision for VMware, other environments
Study from Pew Research uncovers trends about mobile content consumption
New tool released as part of Twitter apps for Apple iPhone and Android; follows Instagram move to pull photos from Twitter
The gang targeted U.S. citizens and caused losses of US$4 million, Romanian authorities say
As rumors swirl about wider distribution, customers savage Amazon for letting resellers jack up prices and post false 'savings'
Microsoft said update offers 'performance enhancements;' users say it fixes random reboot problems, adds Wi-Fi updates
Weather information provider leaned heavily on Amazon during Hurricane Sandy
Dexter malware stole data for tens of thousands of payment cards in recent weeks, Seculert researchers say
