Sean Michael Kerner

Smartphone vendor Research in Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM) is hoping to hit a home run with the upcoming launch of the PlayBook tablet platform. RIM this week reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2011 earnings, showing growth in the smartphone market as competition from Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform continues to mount. RIM […]

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is continuing to grow its business, with strong revenues for its third fiscal quarter. Growth is coming from all sectors, including hardware from its Sun Microsystem acquisition. “We saw strength across all regions, industries and product segments,” Oracle President, Mark Hurd, said during the company’s earnings call. “Engineered systems have fundamentally changed the […]

“We know exactly what we think we need to keep. It was done with detailed traffic engineering and study analysis, not the back of an envelope kind of thing because there is an awful lot riding on this.” John Stankey president and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions discussing his company’s planned acquisition of T-Mobile for […]

From the ‘They Paid What?!‘ files: Not that long ago, IPv4 addresses were free flowing. Not anymore. The free pool of IPv4 address space is now gone and there is a premium that is being paid for those addresses. Well at least, Microsoft is paying a premium. Microsoft is buying 666,624 IPv4 addresses from the […]

From the ‘Time to Update‘ files: Pligg is a popular open source social voting site (think Reddit or Digg). The open source application is now getting an update to fix a number of security and bug flaws. The Pligg 1.1.4 update provides fixes for what the project describes as a,”large number of security improvements.”  Among […]

Many remote home office workers have their own Wi-Fi access points. Getting them properly connected back to the corporate LAN, to provide the full enterprise experience, isn’t always an easy thing to accomplish. That’s where the new Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) Aironet 600 Series OfficeExtend wireless access points come into play. The Aironet 600 Series was announced […]

Regular consumer-grade Wi-Fi access points aren’t always enough to provide secure remote access to enterprise IT infrastructure. Cisco this week announced a new wireless access point solution as part of its Office Extend architecture. The new Cisco Aironet 600 Series OfficeExtend Access Points are intended to provide remote home workers with the same type of […]

Though Intel’s Itanium chip architecture has lost another software vendor, the platform is still alive. This week Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and HP all traded barbs about Itanium. It started off with Oracle announcing that it was stopping all of its Itanium software development. Oracle went a step further to state that Intel had told […]

Three years ago, Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that his company would be the first pure-play open source vendor to hit $1 billion in revenues. Red Hat is now nearly there. The fourth quarter of 2011 was a big one for Red Hat with the debut of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]

Though the free pool of available IPv4 addresses has now been exhausted, that doesn’t mean that every network is now going to be using IPv6. The need to support both IPv4 and IPv6 is where different migration, dual-stack and tunneling approaches come in. This week networking vendor Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD), debuted its solution to the problem […]

Sometimes, it’s better to buy, then it is to build. That’s the decision that Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) McAfee security decision has made when it comes to database security. McAfee today announced the acquisition of privately held database security vendor Sentrigo. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Sentrigo’s solutions include the Hedgehog Enterprise […]