Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Facebook password system too simple says security firm Cenzic
New feature highlights relevant favorites, retweets, new followers
Apple and Google continue to dominate, as Nokia, Microsoft and RIM struggle
OpenLogic's service will go up against offerings from Red Hat and VMware
Intel hopes to rejuvenate interest in the PC market with Ultrabooks, which will bridge the gap between tablets and PCs
It plans to unveil the new, faster system at its developer conference in September
On-demand capabilities will compete with Verizon's, AT&T's cloud offerings
This is the first criminal prosecution of a seller of PlayStation 3 jailbreak technology
But Calif. county's district attorney passes on Gizmodo, which paid $5K for the lost smartphone, and former editor Jason Chen
The University of Texas' Brent Waters receives a $200,000 Microsoft fellowship
Vacation pictures on Flickr form visual 3D models
Anderson de Rezende Rocha fights against contrived image and video evidence
A Stanford University researcher wins a Microsoft fellowship for analysis of social networking activity
Microsoft's US$200,000 endowed fellowship goes to the University of Washington's Shwetak Patel
IST Austria's Krishnendu Chatterjee wins an award for his work on systems design
The University of Sydney's Alistair McEwan was elected as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow Nina Balcan connects machine learning and game theory
The US$1.4 million-endowed program is designed to advance the work of future academic leaders
Post-PC era? Microsoft says no
Facebook won't say if, or when, the chat feature might launch
Nvidia hires former Cray CTO Steve Scott to drive the company's HPC strategy
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices
Cisco's sales rose slightly but net income dropped from a year earlier
Study: Google+ to surpass Twitter, LinkedIn within year, looms on Facebook
Quashed vulnerability that let researcher bypass browser's sandbox, win $15K in March
Paragon Medical claims that it was sold 'virtually useless' software
Clearwire needs new financing, new network infrastructure and new customers
Safari and Chrome initially supported for instant book reading; others coming
Firefox 7 will be faster, less likely to crash than predecessors, claims developer
The acquisition will bring mobile broadband benefits to more U.S. communities, supporters say
Targets enterprise with "virtualized" WLAN
The loose-knit hacking collective says the social networking site will be targeted on Nov. 5
Tech industry wary of for another downturn, as Apple changes market
Baidu retreats from China's booming microblogging market
"This is really not a group of kids out there that are playing video games," CEO says of Anonymous
Adobe says it patched 13 flaws in Tuesday's Flash Player update; Google's researcher claims he reported 'around 400'
One expert argues Google needs to close-source Android
Botmasters can run zombies from payphones and BlackBerries, researchers demonstrate
Also plugs critical holes in IE9, Windows' DNS service in 22-fix collection
But the agency also doesn't want to lose the LightSquared spectrum for mobile broadband, officials say
