Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Twitter CEO Costolo says political candidates will need to use the popular social network to win elections
President is questioned by wife of laid-off Texas semiconductor engineer
The E-Class array in one rack can match the performance of 14 racks of disk drives
SeaMicro, which sold only Atom-based servers, adds a Xeon microserver to its stable
Google exec contends users still retain control, and private information remains private
Makes CEO of struggling European chain Dixons head of Apple's retail
Google's new consolidated Privacy Policy goes into effect March 1, 2012
Samsung tablet still can't be sold in Germany
Microsoft listens to users of Windows 8 Developer Preview
IBM also announced a new software system for mobile device management
Apparent try to better appeal to youth causes renewed concern about RIM's future among analysts
The meeting on Feb. 6 aims to resolve disagreements over privacy issues between the group and Facebook
Compromised WordPress 3.2.1 blogs infect visitors with TDSS rootkit through Java exploits
The new Xtreme support offerings come in three tiers
AccuRev will release a connector that can enable many of its own enterprise features to work with Git
The new client offers presence, access to company directories, call log and secure IM
HP's Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced package now can find your IT assets in the cloud
Toshiba and Fujitsu both still expect a profit for the full fiscal year, but have slashed their forecasts
Samsung's altered Galaxy Tab 10.1N is not affected by the continued sales ban
Oracle had cited fraud by HP to defend its decision not to support Itanium in its software
The service for small businesses is the result of Salesforce.com's Assistly acquisition
The company's JavaScript to Dart Synonym application maps common idioms
The new report from McAfee and SDA ranks Finland, Sweden and Israel as the countries most prepared for cyber-threats
Amazon's Q4 earnings report may reveal more on Tuesday
Dev shows how to use QuasiDisk to share iPhone Internet connection with a notebook; app remains on App Store
Markey's bill would require phone companies to notify consumers of tracking software on handsets
CSO's publisher looks at a tumultuous January for the intellectual property landscape
Smarter storage can be tailored to the application it's serving
Kicks off 'technical preview' of next suite with invite-only testers
After Google+ got Angry Birds last August, Facebook follows up on Feb. 14
Google+ adds safeguards to help protect teenagers on social net, Hangouts
Everybody's dropping the 'M word' about Google in the search market and Apple in tablets. But is it true?
Commercial residential use to come sometime next year
But one hosting company denies it has plans to do so
Newsgator, which builds enterprise social software for SharePoint, says it will be able to do much more with Office 365's next version
4G LTE smartphone with tablet features can be delivered Feb. 17 on pre-order
'I did not commit this crime,' says Andrey Sabelnikov, named last week by Microsoft as botnet maker
But it's still no iPad, according to industry analyst
Companies hope use of a new protocol, DMARC, will make users less likely to receive fraudulent messages
MetaFlows Security System uses a combination of open source and proprietary technologies to reduce costs and support off-the-shelf hardware
Tooling related to NoSQL databases, Hadoop and MapReduce will become available at no charge
A new feature called App Alert checks if Android applications access private data
