Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
An administrator from Purdue University has developed software that can slow servers when the air conditioning goes out
Google tweets about the strong kickoff of its Gmail voice calling feature
Federal panel upholds lower court decision that federal DEA agents can enter private property sans warrant to plant GPS devices
Opting out of the social network's new location feature isn't as simple as saying 'no thanks'
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder singles out Google in multi-patent infringement lawsuit
The research firm now considers it to be an integral part of most enterprises
The company sees 3Par's technology as valuable but expects to survive in storage if HP wins the bidding
An experiment run by RIPE NCC in collaboration with Duke University briefly disrupts about 1 percent of Internet traffic
Starting before Brocade's Foundry buyout, A10 stole the networking company's ideas and employees, the suit claims
Can two far-behind competitors team up to take a bite out of Google's search dominance?
The number of women accessing the Web from their phones has grown by 575 percent in two years
Police say they have not yet found the electronic voting machine (EVM) hacked by the researcher
Users have until Sept. 15 to upgrade if they want to IM friends
Some orders that were held up the government have also been cleared
The draft law would allow the use of job networking sites such as LinkedIn but not social ones
Overall they are below the industrywide 55% average, according to IBM's X-Force
The company managers submitted false reimbursement requests to the state, the attorney general alleges
How will storage virtualization technologies keep pace with storage requirements and maintain high service levels
A decision by the UK Court of Appeals may have consequences for parallel imports of IT hardware to the European Union
Low-power chips based on the Bobcat architecture may be part of AMD's future server offerings
The move comes a few hours after the government repeated its threat to cut off BlackBerry services in India
Agency cites upgrades to LimeWire software that aim to prevent inadvertent P2P file sharing
Bluetooth 4.0 supports low power for battery-powered devices
It now has its own Web page, as well as new features to filter and narrow results
W32.SillyFDC worm may have been tweaked to be more effective
Firefox 4 'not likely' to support aging Macs
It just wouldn't make sense, analysts say
Beware of what you see and hear about these topics, according to infosec veteran Jimmy Blake.
Customers taking a gradual approach to migration
Flash drive attack vector remains popular, says security company
In effort to get a stronger footing in smartphone market, Intel reportedly ready to buy Infineon's wireless chip unit
The agency goes after the online practice of astroturfing in its complaint against a PR agency
The FCC should look harder at special access and early termination fees, the GAO says
Effort calls for new government policies affecting the commercial sector
Laptop chips based on Sandy Bridge will have a dozen new graphics features to boost multimedia performance
Nanotechnology used in autonomous robots that could work in swarms to clean future oil spills
Microsoft Hyper-V wins over VMware virtualization at CH2M Hill
Smartphones widely used for e-reading of cloud-based e-book content
The company long considered McAfee or Symantec acquisitions to leverage CPUs in security
