Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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AT&T has withdrawn its merger application at the FCC but will still seek approval for the deal in a court case with the DOJ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
The proposed $39 billion deal now goes to a hearing before an administrative law judge at the FCC
Friend Connect, Knol and Search Timeline are among the services being retired
Administrative hearing could spell death knell of proposed $39 billion merger
HP is developing Superdome and other Integrity servers that can use Xeon as well as Itanium processors
A Senate vote on the controversial copyright enforcement bill could come by early December
It's the latest turn in a long-running dispute between Wellogix and SAP
5-inch Android tablet, Red Droid model also rumored
HTC-made Facebook smartphone would run an Android derivative, report says
An all-SSD infrastructure can approach the cost of hard drive arrays
New email privacy project relies on people's respect for social norms rather than enforcing them with technology
Small PC makers are raising PC prices by up to 20 percent
Twenty-seven Republicans in the U.S. Congress who opposed net neutrality rules are cosponsors of SOPA or Protect IP
Cisco CIO Jacoby to oversee new cloud and systems management group
It also will offer a $200 Xoom tablet with LTE (with contract)
Helped by the availability of more phones the technology is taking off
Analysts and Google suggest PIN or password alternate for smartphone
Claims the OS will install in as little as one-tenth the time as Windows 7
