Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Cisco joins rivals in giving Apple’s discovery protocol enterprise behaviors
Settling firms include Apple, Google and Microsoft, the patent holding company announces
A jury trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection next Monday
Amazon, Box.com and Terremark each submit information to join the Cloud Security Alliance's STAR program
DARPA-funded Project Fortress produced 'beautiful code' over 10 years, but technical hurdles ended up being too steep
Qualcomm is pushing the technology, based on its FlashLinq system, as part of a future version of LTE
The tools continue to keep pace with evolving threats and meet head-on new challenges introduced by virtualization and mobility
The DOJ's proposal would allow Amazon.com to set the price of e-books, critics say
The survey was conducted this year along with Forbes
TSMC will make chips with 3D transistors based on ARM processor designs
The Silicon Valley companies join the 'acqu-hiring' trend
Virtual currencies jump the fence from in-game tokens to real-world rewards
Trustwave to show how it outwitted Google Play defense against Android malware; Stonesoft to air free 'Evader' detection tool
Intel says Clover Trail is optimized for Windows 8
Uniloc claims that their Android applications for mobile phones and tablets infringe its patent
Apple and Samsung started patent trial in Federal Court in Australia on Monday
Companies filed appeals separately on Friday, reports say
Areas of improvement in the browser-based, cloud-hosted suite include performance and collaboration
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
