Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
New modules for high-end switches comply with IEEE 802.3az standard
Orange Partner Connect will use a new Web portal as a single distribution point
Mobile commerce is taking off in a big way, as shoppers use smartphones to compare prices, make purchases and find deals
It issued applicable fixes for Snow Leopard last month
Salesforce.com's purchase of Ruby platform vendor Heroku gives it yet another option for cloud-based applications
Supporters of whistleblower Web site step up attacks
Nokia could build Android-based phones for U.S., where the worldwide mobile phone leader remains weak, analysts say
Akamai often finds itself scrambling to stop a DDOS attack against one or more of its clients
Botnets responsible for more than 88 percent of all spam, says Symantec. Rustock pumps out 44 million spam emails each day
Samsung is given a reprieve for tipping off the authorities
Intel has 35 tablet design wins for its Atom chips
Women taped phones to their torsos, carried iPads as they crossed the border from Hong Kong
HHS should create XML-based standards for data sharing among health IT systems, the report says
Market projected to grow by 68% growth in 2011 despite increasing competition from media tablets like Apple iPad, Galaxy Tablet
Intellectual Ventures targets nine companies, including Symantec, McAfee and Hynix Semiconductor
Blue-and-white version for health care includes camera for barcode scanning of pharmaceuticals labels
Three JavaScript benchmarks show wildly different results
The men were also charged with wire fraud and selling stolen property in interstate commerce
Mobile hypervisor will separate corporate and personal data
Microsoft applications still dominate in enterprise
Privacy settings will remain intact and don't require a reset, though the push to share more info remains troubling to some
Hear-Me.org is a platform to push for FCC approval of the devices under stricter rules
The company has introduced a line of portable data centers that start as small as 8 feer in length
The new offering lets users add capacity for short-term use
Cipurse, a new specification for securing public transit payment cards, will challenge existing systems from NXP
China now has 440 million Internet users, 300 million of which are mobile Internet users
Soviet satellite becomes Obama's new rallying cry to keep Congress from cutting education and science funding
'Anonymous' group launches attacks against Swiss bank for freezing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's account
Slates launch of cross-browser app store for Q1 2011
The on-demand database service will be available next year
Salesforce.com customers will be able to invite others to use the social app, Facebook-style
Registries to issue digital certificates for verifying IP addresses, routing prefixes
Speeds in both mobile and fixed networks are set to increase
'Honeycomb' debuts at Dive into Mobile show
The memory chips are stacked vertically
AT&T's consumer survey ratings plunge as iPhone 4 ties trio of Samsung Android smartphones for first place
Broadband providers may support the Genachowski net neutrality plan, the former FCC chairman says
Users who opt into the feature will subscribe to lists that block sites from tracking them
Chrome-based netbooks will hit market in mid-2011
