Sean Michael Kerner

Is the e-commerce site you shop at secure? Is your information safe? The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol is one measure of security and business is booming for companies like VeriSign that provide SSL certification. eSecurityPlanet reports on the latest SSL market share figures from Netcraft which includes more comprehensive sales figures from the biggest […]

Microsoft has tried mightily to migrate customers onto newer operating systems (first Vista and now Windows 7) and away from the venerable Windows XP. But while Windows 7 has gained significant adoption in consumer and enterprise circles, XP, security issues and all, continues to be used by millions of customers. eSecurityPlanet reports on a recent […]

A fast-growing swarm of companies offers various social networking tools and services as part of the so-called Enterprise 2.0 trend. Many of these services mimic or at least closely follow the features of consumer services like Facebook and Twitter, but with enterprise-grade security and compliance included. Benefits include increased collaboration and communication among employees and […]

Power lines can provide an attractive alternative for broadband connectivity, but competing technologies and providers have hampered standardization efforts. Enterprise Networking Planet reports on the latest efforts by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to find common ground between the competing interests and what still needs to happen to get a final standard […]

Apple’s giving its Mac OS X a significant update, offering users a host of security fixes as it migrates to version 10.6.4. Among the flaws Apple is addressing is a vulnerability related to Adobe’s Flash Player, which was recently tagged with a zero-day threat. eSecurity Planet has the details. Apple’s Mac OS X is getting […]

Developers are always interested in new software development tools because, potentially at least, they give them the ability to implement new features or capabilities that older software tools can’t. For example, the developers behind Twitter chose the relatively new Ruby on Rails as its development platform. Developers have been anxiously awaiting delivery of the latest […]

The cloud is the thing in enterprise IT and this thing keeps getting bigger and bigger by the day. But for CIOs in some industries—particularly the financial services and government—the benefits of lower initial investment costs, smaller data centers and universal data access are often offset by security and control concerns. As CIO Update discovered, […]

From the ‘Mozilla Test Pilot‘ files: How many add-ons do you have in Firefox? How much time did you spend in Firefox last week? If you have opted into the Mozilla Labs Test Pilot add-on survey system — now you know, and so does Mozilla. Test Pilot is a survey system from Mozilla Labs that […]

China has emerged as an economic and technological powerhouse thanks to sheer numbers, but one place where it is not dominant is in domain registrations. As Enterprise Networking Planet notes, registering a domain name in China is not a trivial task. Nor is it cheap. This partly explains the dip in .cn registrations, the story […]

The popularity of search engines has spawned huge growth in search engine marketing as more and more businesses crank up efforts to make sure links to their websites appear prominently in search results page. Google, by far the most popular search engine, is an important source of leads and sales to businesses and any changes […]

From the ‘Living Dead‘ files: Is the SCO case really over? Groklaw seems to think so..but with all due respect to Pam Jones, this isnt the first time they’ve declared SCO dead and the case over. SCO has lost at least three major judgments in as many years and yet here we are in 2010 […]

Stamping out bugs in applications is typically thought of as a process that happens as a development project nears completion, or even after it’s already shipped. But HP is moving to to offer ways for developers to identify problems before they surface in working code. The idea is that by squashing bugs and fixing security […]