Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Latest on Apple iPad mini: Goodbye iPad 2, comfy with 4:3, playing defense
Common architectures between public and private clouds makes managing hybrid clouds easier, Cloudscaling says
New Google Nexus! Or not! But definitely SOMETHING! Let's all get indiscriminately excited!
FTC already has the law on its side but wants new tech ideas to back it up
But vendors have to agree on a video codec before a standard can be defined
CDMI allows data to be moved around private and pubic clouds
Virtual Machine Converter converts virtual machines from vSphere to Hyper-V formats
Agency says mobile version of spyware that was sold to law enforcement and governments is a worrying trend
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth doesn't want to spoil the surprise when it is ready
Microsoft experienced a rough quarter, with a 22 percent decline in net income and an 8 percent decline in revenue
Dell has announced a new family of Active Systems, but it will also retire its vStart line
AMD's revenue fell in the fiscal third quarter on poor demand for products
CIO Mott wants HP workers who had worked on GM IT operations under outsourcing pacts to become 'well-integrated' into the GM team
Wall Street analysts say company could be in play but don't see a fit for the storage titan
Verizon average monthly bill now $145
What's a Wii? Why is Skype called Skype? And what does eBay mean? Here are the real stories behind some of tech's strangest-sounding brands.
But Linux users will pay even more, a US website is finding
Virtual networking grabs spotlight at OpenStack events
Defense Secretary warns the government would tap new forensics abilities, and experts say the time is right to use new tech to strike first
Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI have a better sandbox and new security features that can block more attacks, Adobe says
The company's net loss balloons from a!68 million to a!969 million
7 of 10 will have Super Wi-Fi in 2015, research firm says
The operator now owns 50.8 percent of Clearwire and may buy it outright, according to an analyst
But smaller Apple tablet will add millions of new users, analysts say
One computer-generated film is made up of as many as 120,000 frames and requires 200TB of disk storage
Bundled apps on Surface RT cannot be used for work without tying them to another Office license, Microsoft confirms
The service automatically pulls out and organizes important content in folders
Foxconn found underage interns, some as young as 14, working at one of its factories in China
Canonical's latest Linux distribution provides easier access to Internet services
Analysts say IBM basing much of its advances on acquisitions Worklight, BigFix, Guardium, Q1 Labs,
Twitter was asked by police in Germany to block the account of a banned organization
The free service will help schools and businesses control and distribute content to the devices
Information on specific products would be made public in its suit against Samsung, but only pending an appeal
In a sting operation, the agency is warning would-be sellers on Craigslist -- by name
Reports on investment banker retention, EMC interest say Cisco rival may be in play
VMware says it wants OpenStack customers to use vSphere
Ventura County uses mobile app, text, smartphones, Twitter to communicate with residents
The agency approves a deal between AT&T and Sirius XM that helps mobile broadband service avoid interference
Cheapest tablet delivery time slips to three weeks
OpenStack opening keynote lauds potential of open source cloud computing project
Though men actually use wider variety of emoticons when they do use them
Exacalibur and Merlin lead the way as Citrix moves to the cloud
Ubuntu maker's open source orchestration tool allows users to drag-and-drop their way to new cloud resources
Company will start production of 64-bit chips for ARM servers by 2014
