Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux works with the new Intel Nehalem-EX and AMD Magny-Cours chips
White House names California CIO Teri Takai to one of the top federal IT jobs
Nehalem's improved memory bandwidth has encouraged system makers to retool server designs
Kindles are being carried into China and peddled even though Amazon doesn't sell them there
The news comes after Google last week snubbed the Chinese government over censorship
The economics of multicore chips may affect every aspect of IT costs
Global chip revenue declined 10.5 percent to US$228.4 billion in 2009, Gartner said
Users need access to productivity applications over the Internet and from mobile devices, executive says
The environmental group says that Dell may not meet 2011 deadline for phasing out harmful chemicals
Reacts to Pwn2Own hacks that bypassed DEP, ASLR; Says the measures are still effective
CloudFront customers can limit access to streamed content by IP address and date, Amazon said
Unauthorized code boosts clock speed on Palm Pre smartphones to 800MHz from 500MHz
The third-party maintenance provider says Oracle's suit against it is groundless and anticompetition
Former head of server unit may face more than 20 years of prison time
HP also touts its Halo videoconferencing used by Dreamworks creative teams to collaborate on 'Dragon' movie
How a 'perfect storm' will make iPad the biggest cultural phenomenon since The Beatles
Claims credit card charges 'compulsory,' follows similar suit targeting rival Symantec
New 40nm modules boosts dual-CPU storage capacity to 394GB, doubling previous capacity
21% of wireless subscribers had a smartphone at end of '09
New software and hardware will help tame the energy beast
GE exec Mark Hura looks at ambitions for smart grid program
Eleven representatives question whether the launch of Buzz breached consumer privacy
May also patch 'don't-press-F1-key' bug in across-the-board rush update
Patches 92 bugs in Leopard, Snow Leopard; no fix for Pwn2Own vulnerability
Application use skyrocketing, including P2P transfers, report indicates
Texting, Twitter bringing groups together quickly, but that's not causing the violence
The Boston regional FIRST Robotics competition will send five teams to the championship in April
Existing orders will still arrive Saturday; new orders won't ship until April 12
As Google, Go Daddy reconsider China, will other businesses think again?
U.S. Patent and Trade Office is planning a major IT migration
Users will be able to compare sales performance for certain brands and see some demographic trends
University of Maryland sees nearly a 50% jump in undergrad enrollments
Wireless communications leapfrogging wired throughout the Third World
New versions of Bluetooth, smartphone app stores, cellular broadband to play key roles
Open source 'whitelist' would aid transition to next-gen Internet services, proponents say
A phone hacker says that some mobile Web proxies send phone numbers to Web sites, comprising security
Top innovative firms, products include W PhoneWatch (see video, page 2), Zero Charger, Connectify, Aava Mobile, Appel, Line2
Plans to lean more heavily on resellers to lift sagging Ethernet fortunes
Pitches DNS change so it can support IPv6 without cutting off hundreds of thousands of visitors
Apple's iWork suite for the tablet might not be enough for the workplace
