Sean Michael Kerner

Internet attacks can come from any country in the world at any given point in time. Over the course of the first quarter of 2011, Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report found one country to be the source of more attack traffic than any other. Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, now tops […]

From the ‘Just Add Linux’ files: Mozilla is now in the early stages of building their own operating system. The initial technical project is being called boot to Gecko (B2G) after Gecko the core rendering engine behind Firefox. It’s a great idea and one that Google has already attempted, twice (ChromeOS and Android). That is […]

IBM’s first patent was U.S. patent #998,631 and was filed on October 11, 1907 and became a granted patent on July 25th 1911. The patent is for a ‘perforating machine’, essentially a punch card system used for tabulation. It’s an innovation that has a long history of successors all the way up to modern storage […]

Going through the process of selecting and then installing new networking gear is not a trivial process for an airport. At the end of the process, you’d expect that the new gear would stay in place for several years, but that’s not what happened with the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. Their story is one that […]

In the modern world of information security, there is a need for enterprises to rapidly identify and analyze new forms of malware. Security vendor Norman is now advancing its malware analysis technology with Norman Malware Analyzer G2 platform. The system is for enterprises and governments that have a need to do their own security analysis […]

From the ‘Deal Goes On’ files: Back in November of 2006, Microsoft announced a deal with Novell that shook the Linux world. It was a mutli-year interoperability and patent deal that served as the base for much of Novell’s Linux revenues for years afterwards and firmly established SUSE Linux and Microsoft’s Linux partner. With the […]

From the ‘Who Needs A Toolbar?’ files: Google has decided to drop support for Firefox for the Google Toolbar. No, that’s not a bad thing at all. The toolbar is a relic of any older era. An era when Firefox Sync didn’t exist, an era when the awesomebar wasn’t truly aweseome. Apparently however, Mozilla is […]

The first major Linux kernel version number change since 2003 is now available, but it’s not as big a change as the number change might imply. The Linux 2.6 kernel was first released in December of 2003 and has since been followed by 39 major releases, the last being the 2.6.39 kernel that came out […]

SUSE Studio started out as an online service in 2009 and then expanded it with an on-premise version for enterprises and software vendors in 2010. For on-premise users, the technology was known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit and included the SUSE Lifecycle Management Server (SLMS). With SLMS an ISV can manage software licenses and entitlements […]

WAN optimization vendor Riverbed isn’t just optimizing WAN traffic, they’re also optimizing their financial results and their own operations. Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) announced second quarter fiscal 2011 earnings late Tuesday. Revenues came in at $170.3 million up by 35 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Income was reported at $11.3 million or $0.07 per share up […]

“Hey Google, I’d say I know you’re all new to the social game and should be forgiven that you have messed up with how to handle brands here so badly. Except, you’re not new.” Danny Sullivan search engine expert on Google+ talking aboutl akc of branch pages (Google +) “With a store this big, it […]

2011 was a good year for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Microsoft reported record fiscal 2011 earnings late Thursday of $69.94 billion for a 12 percent year-over-year increase. Net Income for the year was reported at $23.15 billion for a 23 percent year-over-year gain. Earnings Per Share came in at $2.69 which is a 28 percent year-over-year gain. […]