Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The Wi-Fi Alliance has started work to make it easier to write applications that use the peer-to-peer standard
The company's online analytics service has slipped until next year
Google manages fleet of internal employee computers with home built and open source software
The company blames other social networking account breaches for the spam
The new legislation would limit the amount of information that private companies can share with the U.S. government
Oracle's 'great big honkin' cloud,' as CEO Larry Ellison once put it, is getting a software update
Fast-growing tech firms are shunning Silicon Valley for San Francisco to help them attract new talent
Security researchers will disclose new vulnerabilities affecting mobile and Web technologies at security conference
In first memo, new CEO asks employees to keep working while she devises strategy
Do the business computing giant's assertions stack up?
Microsoft says it has 4 trillion objects in its cloud, handles 270,000 requests per second
Apple iPhone 5 rumors include testing, assault on battery, mini-SIMs, the China card
Letting users transfer their unused addresses outside the region could help to ease an IPv4 crunch in Asia
The Yahoo CEO's complex compensation package leads to wildly different estimates of how much she'll get
Google also improved ad revenues by 21 percent
EU eyeballs Windows 8 browser policy, tablet keyboards with brains
Federal databases inconsistent, while hospital equipment hit with malware
But the FCC's numbers differ significantly from other recent studies, a critic says
DARPA funds researchers building smart suit that should improve soldiers' strength, endurance
SSD-backed Amazon offering is ideal for database, big data analytics functions, analyst says
Hopes are for a Windows Phone 8 Lumia launch at Nokia's trade show
Our first installment of Google Android roundup sees bigger storage for the Galaxy S III, who's getting Jelly Bean next, and a possible upcoming phablet. No news, sadly, on a better term for a hybrid phone/tablet than "phablet."
Microsoft plans to integrate Yammer's enterprise social networking software with its collaboration products and business applications
The remaining command and control servers of the Grum botnet have been shut down
SalesForce's two recent outages point to difficulties in preparing for SaaS outages compared to IaaS, analysts say
Nokia shipped 4 million Lumia smartphones in Q2, nowhere near enough to counter the slide in Symbian smartphone sales
Petition asks changes to Zeroconf protocol for iOS, Mac networking
Antitrust officials investigating four sets of charges against Windows 8 and Windows RT
Microsoft made major improvements in Office's user interface and application functionality, but the lack of an iPad version is concerning
IBM system revenue declined and software revenue remained flat
The growing use of facial recognition by law enforcement agencies and companies raises privacy concerns, Franken says
GeOS platform scheduled for 2013 release
SAFECode releases practical guidelines for weaving security into the Agile coding process
Mozilla published 14 security advisories for Firefox 14.0.1
May have avoided wrath of EU antitrust regulators if it had paid more attention to a user's question last year on its own support site
Symantec on Tuesday joined other vendors offering tools to stop such mobile malware with its own: Mobile Security for Android
Michelle Marsico's two-year ordeal ends with lawsuit settlement
An International Trade Commission exclusion order against its smartphones comes into force on Wednesday
The new library replaces three previous models
EMC's president, Gelsinger, will become VMware CEO as Maritz transitions to become 'technology strategist' at EMC
The tech world will be watching to see if Marissa Meyer is on Yahoo's earnings call Tuesday
The company should face US charges even if it doesn't have a presence in the country, the DOJ argues
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and Seculert discover new cyberespionage operation targeting Middle Eastern countries
A 20-year relationship hits the skids after a contract dispute
Survey reveals BYOD goal is money savings, but two-thirds find none and one-quarter see costs rise more than 20%
XBMC looking for beta testers
Citrix-backed CloudStack is competing in the open source cloud world and now has a globally based IaaS offering
Java developers, mobile developers, and .NET developers are the hardest tech pros to find and hire, says Dice.com
Two Netherlands-based servers used by the Grum botnet were shut down, but others remain active, a researcher said
