Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Increase in memory prices could affect semiconductor industry
Thousands of customers of Marriott, JPMorgan Chase, Walgreens, Capital One, Brookstone, BJ's, TIVO, Barclays Bank of Delaware, Red Roof and others get the bad news email.
VMware has hired Mozy workers and acquired its assets
The Xeon E7 chips, code-named Westmere-EX, are designed to cut server maintenance and electric bills
Linux has already defeated Microsoft, Linux Foundation chief says
Satisfaction ratings close, but AT&T iPhone owners report more than double the number of disconnects
More than one-third of IT workers would take a pay cut for the chance to telecommute full time
Apple iPad easily bests rivals from Motorola, Samsung
German researchers turn their work on tweets into website that assesses stock chat
Work to dig out the Sendai Technology Center will continue for months as the company recovers from the March tsunami
Fleshes out Application Fluent Network architecture with low latency Ethernet switches, meshes and pods
Micron plans to ship a new enterprise-class PCIe solid state drive this summer
The CRM vendor also previewed its Spring release, which includes client apps for iPad and Android devices
Google ordered to manually blur faces and car number plates
SNIA also positions cloud management spec for international standards certification
Symantec online security study says hitting social-networking profiles, product vulnerabilities, rootkits are growing problems
Tells customers still on contract to pay up to $549 for new iPhone 4
India thinks Vodafone owes US$2.5 billion related to a 2007 acquisition
Residents in Salt Lake City will be able to pay for public transport using their phones
The company will warranty its next-generation Zeus flash storage for five years
The incident affected about 2% of Epsilon's 2,500 clients
Tenenbaum case review first time court to consider appropriateness of damages against individuals in RIAA copyright cases
The new legislation would allow Web users to opt out of online tracking and data collection
Indian business group blames 'skills shortage' for low hiring rate
The iPad is what Apple was after from the start, the company's co-founder said
The deal is expected to close in six to nine months
DC Circuit Court of Appeals dismisses Verizon, MetroPCS suit as 'premature'
Apple now promises to ship new tablet within two to three weeks
Taps into Microsoft's own update mechanism to circumvent sluggish carriers
Google claims Nortel bid part of broader defense against 'patent trolls'
Apple patent shows iPad's iOS borrowing from Mac OS X
Database of stolen addresses is a gold mine for hackers and scammers
AT&T now limits smartphone data, will start doing so in May for wired home users, too
The long-awaited release is more than two years in the making
Traffic jam in space pushes back shuttle's liftoff 10 days to April 29
Your guess about next Apple iPhone is as good as anyone's
Ribbon interface, Mac-like backup possibly in the works for next version of Windows
Guests at Morgan's Wonderland wear RFID wristbands for location tracking and to link to critical personal information
Meru CEO talks of company's 'symbiotic relationship' with Cisco, how to avoid 'Wi-Fi meltdowns'
The vendor's decision to end software support for the Intel server chip could force expensive IT infrastructure changes.
