Sean Michael Kerner

The deal will see Nokia offer Alcatel-Lucent 0.55 of a new Nokia share for every Alcatel-Lucent share. The transaction is currently expected to close in the first half of 2016. When the deal closes, the current CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, will become the CEO of the combined company, which will be known as Nokia […]

Science-Fiction fans all know the significance of the number 42 and so does Google. Google released Chrome 42 stable on April 14, providing users with new security fixes so they don’t need to panic. 42 is of course the answer to the question of the meaning of life, in the classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]

From the ‘Not Far Now’ files: The first Release Candidate (RCs) for the upcoming OpenStack Kilo release are now out. I’ve seen the RC for Nova (https://github.com/openstack/nova/tree/proposed/kilo),  and the RC for Trove at: https://github.com/openstack/trove/tree/proposed/kilo with more set to follow. OpenStack Release Manager Thierry Carrez notes for all of the Kilo RC’s that: Unless release-critical issues […]

From the ‘Label This’ files: Development on Docker never stops and the 1.6 release cycle is nearing the finish line. Some of the big additions set to debut in Docker 1.6 will be a native Windows client. Building Docker images will also get a boost with the ability to building images from an image ID […]

Globally the average connection speed came in at 4.5 Mbps in the fourth quarter, for a 20 percent year-over-year gain. Once again, Korea was the fastest nation, with an average connection speed of 22.2 Mbps for a year-over-year gain of 1.6 percent. The U.S placed 16th overall with an average connection speed of 11.1 Mbps, […]

Ken Won, director HP Helion optimized cloud solutions, explained to ServerWatch that the starting configuration for Helion Rack includes HP Helion OpenStack,  HP Helion Development Platform, (9) HP ProLiant DL 360 servers (for running HP Helion OpenStack, HP Helion Development Platform and compute servers) and (2) HP ProLiant DL 380 servers for storage and rack. […]

According to the State of the Web March 2015 study published by Menlo Security, that scanned 50,000 unique domains, 21 percent of sites have known vulnerabilities. “The home page of each of the 750,000 domains in the Alexa 1 Million was visited once,” Kowsik Guruswamy, CTO of Menlo Security told eWEEK. “This was not an […]

From the ‘Is it cold in here?’ files: We’re now in the stretch run for the OpenStack Kilo platform release. The Feature Freeze, which also includes a String and Deep freeze is now in place, meaning – no feature additions or major changes. That said the actual ‘HardDepFreeze’ isn’t set to kick in until tomorrow […]

On March 23 Google reported that unauthorized certificates for Google domains were issued by MCS Holdings, which is an intermediate certificate authority under CNNIC. Because CNNIC is a trusted CA that is included in every major Web browser, the certificate might have been trusted by default, even though it wasn’t legitimate. Google, thanks to its […]

Blue Coat is set to accelerate its plans for growth over the course of this year, thanks in part to its acquisition by Bain Capital. “Bain acquired us not to change direction but to accelerate it,” Mike Fey, President and COO of Blue Coat said. While Blue Coat has its own technology assets, it also […]

If the unauthorized access, in fact, turns out to be an attack, Twitch will join a list of other gaming technologies that have been attacked in recent years. Sony’s PlayStation network and Microsoft’s Xbox live were both attacked during the 2014 Christmas holiday period. Although Twitch is taking action and getting users to reset their […]

As technology users increasingly rely on mobile devices, there is a need for improved mobile security testing technologies. It’s a need that entrepreneur and security expert Georgia Weidman is aiming to fulfill with her new startup called Shevirah. Weidman is no stranger to the world of mobile security, she was the recipient of aDARPA (Defence […]