Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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
Aims to keep confidential corporate data from cyberspace; can also track personal posts
Feel the love with videos by Palm users
Combined router/host client allows for ad hoc mobile network
IG report says final NASA shuttle flight now likely to come early next year
They're needed to accommodate new services coming in the future, the company says
By hacking networking cards, researchers can break into networks and PCs
The company's products and road map are more important than price, a U.S. executive said
But GTX 480 cards are 'hot' in more ways than one, testers say
