Network World U.S. staff

Card-payment processor Authorize.Net, which provides an Internet gateway for credit- and debit-card authorizations on behalf of 100,000 merchants and their online shopping customers, last week suffered a crippling distributed denial-of-service attack for several days from an unknown source.

More than four out of 10 Americans use instant messaging, and about 11 million use it at work but have mixed feelings about its capability to encourage productivity and foster collaboration, according to a survey recently released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Despite the growing concern over the number of IT jobs being shunted overseas, a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says that just two per cent of layoffs in the first quarter were the result of offshoring.

What good are wireless LANs without client devices to exploit them? A slew of vendors, including Microsoft Corp., this month announced newfangled options.