Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Corporate investigator Brandon Gregg looks at how bitcoins and Tor make anonymous black markets tick
Microsoft pays $300M for a Barnes & Noble app for Windows 8 and may build its own e-reader
The two companies spend a combined $12.1 million on lobbying the U.S. Congress during the first three months of 2012
Move meant to ease integration of VMware's PaaS offering with OpenStack
If usage share equals enthusiasm, new OS half as interesting to users as Windows 7 was in its beta stage
Symantec says stepping-stone attacks exploit business-partner relationships
Mimecast exec implements mobile management policy that ends up costing him priceless family photos.
New Cloud Alliance survey shows that collaboration tops cost as top reason for adoption
Yahoo also alleged in a filing Friday that Facebook infringed two patents in addition to the 10 patents in suit
Users can shoot a video with their smartphone and stream to a TV via LG';s cloud
Crippled botnet still dangerous, makes PCs vulnerable to follow-up malware attacks
The House version of the information-sharing bill passed last week
Russian AV firm's data also shows that 28% of Lion users are running out-of-date OS
UBS survey maps CIO plans, observations for 2012
Sen. Chuck Grassley had threatened to block a Senate vote on two nominees because the FCC would not give him documents
Supporters of the proposal call the vote a success because it will come back up next year
New rules will require telephone carriers to provide more billing details to customers
IEEE Fellow Jack Winters says there's no reason to ditch your plastic credit card for now
Attention turns to Senate after House passes bill despite threat of Obama veto
Citing security risks, it will push 3.6 to Firefox 12 next month unless users disable updates
Confusion over credits in Oracle's April 2011 Critical Patch Update advisory led to unpatched vulnerability being disclosed
Also, a licensing move against iPads as BYOD choices, and the toaster/refrigerator flap
The company's experimental 'PicapiCamera' app uses visual light communication technology to share data between devices
War of the buttons, thin is in, the looming iPhone dud
Wi-Fi, LTE technology emphasized in Intel purchase
Evernote for business is going to launch within the next couple of months
The company will increase research and development spending up 20 percent from last year
Alternatives to iPhone seen as giving AT&T and Verizon leverage with Apple
Experts warn that many businesses still do not have measures to insulate themselves from big service provider outages
2011 was a brutal year for cloud outages, from Amazon's big one in April to dozens of others. Are you prepared for what 2012 holds?
Internet traffic can be maliciously routed in order to spy on communications
McNealy backed Oracle's arguments in court and called Larry Ellison a 'national economic hero'
AMD is also considering software licensing fees and taxes in data-center consolidation effort
One opponent has expressed worries that the bill would create a 'Wild West of information sharing'
Clearwire will roll out the service in 'hot zones' with high demand in five cities beginning early next year
The move suggests the FTC might sue the company
Republicans' visa reforms would eliminate green card diversity lottery
Survey by U.K. agency finds that 65% sell or give away their personal devices to others, many without scrubbing data
Rackspace, VPS.net say they have resolved vulnerability
iOS activations bested Android by four-to-one, says Good Technology
Does Tim Cook protest too much about potential iPad rival?
The R6300 home router will be capable of 1.3Gbps using the emerging 802.11ac standard, the next generation of Wi-Fi
HTML5 one key to simplifying app creation for new OS
