Sean Michael Kerner

Delivering video with the highest levels of service is a key challenge for service providers. Alcatel-Lucent’s new AppGlide Video Analytics service measures data from multiple inputs in the network in order to help service providers deliver video more effectively. “It collects Quality of Experience, (rather than Quality of Service) data from player-based plug ins (passive […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) is selling its visual collaboration business unit to Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM). The deal is valued at $89 million and is expected to close by August 1st. Under the terms of the deal, Polycom will be acquiring all the assets of HP’s Visual Collaboration business which includes HP’s Halo telepresence systems. HP isn’t entirely walking […]

How well is your IT organization performing? That’s not an easy question to answer and it requires a degree of detail, analytics and reporting that not all organizations have at their fingertips. HP this week is launching a new tool with the HP IT Executive Scorecard to help meet that need. The scorecard is part […]

Global Internet traffic is growing at a rapid rate that is expected to accelerate even more in the coming years. According to the latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast from Cisco, global Internet traffic will hit 966 exabytes per year in 2015. The growth in Internet traffic over the next four years will be greatest […]

At long last, Apple has issued a patch for Mac OS X to help defend users against MacDefender malware. Apple first publicly admitted last week that MacDefender could be a security risk with an advisory release on how to avoid MacDefender. The ironically named MacDefender is a piece of fake anti-virus software. Unsuspecting Mac users […]

From the ‘That Makes No Sense‘ files: Oracle announced this AM that it was giving the OpenOffice.org open source project to Apache. The effort has already been endorsed by IBM as well. To me this move makes no sense at all. Oracle and Sun before them, messed up the OpenOffice.org community which is what eventually […]

There is never any shortage of speculation about what Apple is set to announce at any given point in time. The rumors and the speculation tends to reach a feverish pitch around the time of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), set to run next week in San Franciso. Instead of sitting on the sidelines while […]

The w3af Web Application Attack and Audit Framework is finally stable. The open source w3af project released a 1.0 stable version this week after five release candidates and months of development. W3af enables developers and security researchers to audit, discover and test Web applications for vulnerabilities. “This is our first stable release, named w3af 1.0-stable, […]

According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief report from VeriSign, the Internet domain name business is still growing. For the first quarter of 2011, VeriSign reported a 7.9 percent year-over-year increase in domain registrations, which translates into 4.5 million domains registered in 2011 so far. The total base of domain name registrations now tops […]