Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Estimates 1976 document will fetch $100,000 to $150,000 at Dec. 13 sale
Walton's inventions have found dozens of applications, paved way for NFC
Software from Whisper Systems offers full disk encryption and other security software for Android phones
Robotic rover Curiosity is on long journey to the Red Planet; ETA in August 2012
React to report that 15-in. Air due in early 2012 when Apple refreshes line
Peer-to-peer search offers an alternative to the big incumbents
The DOJ and ICE have now seized 350 websites since June 2010
An Android Trojan that sends text messages to premium-rate numbers hides as a SMS monitoring app
The hackers in the Philippines were raising funds for a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia
Amazon.com, Wal-Mart are big Black Friday winners among online retailers, says comScore
As the Macintosh becomes a common tool in today's enterprise, IT has much to learn about effectively working with the Apple platform
Kindle Fire tablet is top seller
Enterprises need to be aware of hidden IPv6 vulnerabilities
Equity Office's new WAN requires dealing with more providers but halves the cost of bandwidth
The modules will be available through major retail channels like Amazon.com, Fry's, and Best Buy
But others again beat Apple's deals with lower prices
Feds announce on day before Thanksgiving that cap was reached some two months earlier than last year
Merck KGaA said Merck U.S. has apparently taken over its Facebook page
Extensive testing is under way to ensure the games go off without a hitch
Security researcher reveals how to bypass older patch for an Apache reverse proxy vulnerability
Online spending is already up 14% this holiday period
New smartphones and tablets are making it easier for consumers to part with dollars, survey finds
General monitoring of consumer Internet traffic is prohibited by the EU law and violates civil rights, the European Court of Justice said
Countries including Germany, France and Spain have two months to comply before they face court actions
Up to 250,000 compromised computers attacked an Asian e-commerce vendor over a seven-day period, according to Prolexic
AT&T has withdrawn its merger application at the FCC but will still seek approval for the deal in a court case with the DOJ
The U.S. was still the largest market by revenue in the third quarter, said Strategy Analytics
Attila Nemeth has pleaded guilty, after attending a fictitious job interview, according to the Department of Justice
Medical networks around patients' bodies would need to share frequency bands with other uses
The FCC staff's finding that the merger is not in the public interest leads to a hearing, then a possible commission vote
DevOps will be center stage at this year's Usenix LISA conference
Real cause for pump failure still under investigation, DHS says
Assessing the impact of the Super Committee's failure to reach a deficit agreement
Perry, Cain and Gingrich raise issue in Tuesday night's GOP debate
No malicious traffic from Russia or any other foreign entities
It's based on the open-source PostgreSQL database
The company will shift focus to mobile broadband and related services as it seeks to slash costs
EU authorities rule that Western Digital has to sell a production plant to take over Hitachi's hard-disk drive business
The Regional Internet Registry is questioning an order to freeze registrations of four blocks of IP addresses
ComScore is forecasting 15% growth in online retail spending during the 2011 holiday season.
HTTPS-enabled Google services now implement a special encryption technique to mitigate future key recovery attacks
National effort aims to make high performance computing available to manufacturing firms
While Congress focuses on budget cutting, other nations are figuring out what to spend on the next computing platforms
GAO looks at some successful government projects and finds 9 success stories others in or out of government could emulate
The new hardware will be specially designed for applications that use the Kinect sensors with PCs, Microsoft said
