Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Long waits, numerous attempts to get latest Apple firmware
Reviewers praise its polish, attention to detail, features
Patches touch many pars of the system including application firewall
Service will store data from mobile devices and desktop computers; will extend service to Twitter, Gmail by year's end
The company wants a piece of the personal cloud sector
Dell CEO lists three reasons why selling a PC division is a bad idea
Gartner reports that HP remained top PC maker as worldwide shipments increased by only 3.2% in Q3
Huawei plans to step out of the shadows of mainly making unbranded smartphones
A core switch failure created a backlog of messages in Europe that impacted other geographies
Companies like Western Digital and ON Semiconductor have suspended production
Dell CEO Michael Dell says cost benefits from PC business trickle into enterprise business
HP's PC shipments also grew by 5.3 percent year-over-year in the quarter
The company isn't announcing partners yet, but said it's developing a way to run two versions of Android on a phone
In the face of competition from iPads and iPhones, Samsung hopes to make its offerings more attractive to businesses
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory now has data spread among 10 public/private cloud infrastructures
Mozilla has plans to standardize mobile applications on the Web platform
Users report error at tail end of upgrade; swamped servers may be the culprit
Engineer accidentally posts Google+ rant publicly, getting Internet abuzz
BlackBerry Messenger and Web browsing still down on most continents
Joint Microsoft-Hortonworks effort aims to deliver a Hadoop distribution for Windows Server and Windows Azure
Ohio State researcher says forced slowdown can aid communication
FX family of chips, lower prices, Bulldozer architecture give AMD a needed boost
How Google's tablet 'Honeycomb' and smartphone 'Gingerbread' OSes fare in the battle with iOS 5 on the iPad and iPhone
The son of the company founder presided over sales of the world's first commercial cell phones
Nokia's head of North America said the company is finally poised to do what it takes to gain share in the US market
Follows past practice, starts serving downloads at 1 p.m. ET
Models coming soon will be available with natural-language software for easy chatting with the car
iOS or OS X upgrades necessary to access the new free service
Tech vendors, online companies and nonprofits pledge to offer digital training programs for U.S. residents
RIM pledging to work "night and day" to solve problem that has lasted three days
A rash of attacks following missile sales to Taiwan prompted a major cybersecurity review
The biggest number of computers infected with this new Zeus variant are located in India, Italy and the US
Moxie Marlinspike has just the plan to revolutionize SSL certificate security
It will also roll out single management interface across storage line
Cisco unveils thin clients, WAN optimization enhancements to support media
Service slowdown reaches North America for first time
The Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor wants the U.S. Commerce Department to explain its exclusion from the project
The Indian outsourcer expressed concern about the global economic environment
RealPresence Mobile allows HD videoconferencing on iPad, Xoom and Galaxy Tab
U.S. is making some changes to visa processes, but reform requires congressional help
The enterprise mobile management vendor is introducing a 'wrapper' for apps
The company said 'Mafia Wars 2' is its edgiest game yet
Microsoft's Bing holds steady as Google moves back over 65% market share
Gives predictive analytics to IT with the help of agents
