Sean Michael Kerner

With users consuming increasingly higher-quality broadband content, fatter pipes are always a key consideration for carriers. And while its undersea deployments still remain limited to smaller paths, NTT America is turning to 100 Gigabit Ethernet for its U.S. backbone. Enterprise Networking Planet takes a look. Network carrier NTT America plans to make a considerable investment […]

We’re not out of IPv4 addresses … yet … and ARIN is out at CES this week to spread the word on IPv6 to consumer electronics firms. The new year has barely started, but it’s already become apparent that at least one dire prediction about 2010 isn’t going to come to pass. IPv4 […]

Mozilla’s success with open source software is beyond dispute. But can it parlay that same model to encourage broader Internet usage? Datamation takes a look at Mozilla’s new Drumbeat project. Open source has dramatically reshaped the software development landscape. Yet is it enough to help propel the Web itself forward for the next decade? That’s […]

Is IPv4 running out of gas — er, address space?. EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet reports on the latest developments and the IPv6 alternative. IPv4 address space will not be exhausted in 2010 as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) had once forecast. But that doesn’t mean that network managers or even consumer electronics vendors should sit on the […]

Datamation takes a look at efforts by some big names in enterprise IT to clamp down on errors caused by the changeover in the calendar year. No, it’s not the fabled Y2K bug striking a decade too late: It’s “Y2K10” and some of the problems it causes could still be serious. Remember the Y2K bug? […]

From the ‘Linux Inside‘ files: With all the hype surrounding the launch of Google’s Nexus one ‘super phone‘ yesterday was one of the biggest Linux phone releases ever – or was it? Google’s Android sits on top of Linux, but it’s my view that Nexus One is not necessarily a good thing for the mobile […]

Cisco is continuing its push into the home this week with a series of upgrades and new initiatives that are being announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Among the efforts is a new version of Cisco’s EOS media platform and a new home-based telepresence offering for consumer video conferencing. Telepresence is […]

Among the most widely deployed embedded operating systems on the planet is Wind River’s VxWorks real-time OS. This week, Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) Wind River division is updating VxWorks to version 6.8, providing new multi-core and 4G wireless capabilities. The new VxWorks release comes as the competitive market for embedded operating systems is changing, with the […]

Mozilla is out with the first update of 2010 to its open source Firefox Web browser. Unlike its immediate predecessor, Firefox 3.5.7 is not being issued to fix security issues, but rather is an update for a trio of stability-related bugs. The fixed bug list for Firefox 3.5.7 includes one flaw classified as critical and […]

At some point in early 2010, the world will see the first full domain names in a non-Latin based alphabet. The first Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for use as country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are now being considered as part of the process begun in November by Internet governance organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names […]

From the ‘Acquisition Rumors‘ files: Zimbra – the open source mail/collaboration vendor acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for $350 million, may now be up for sale. There is no official word yet from Yahoo, but according to a rumor that CNET blogger Matt Asay says he has been able to confirm, virtualization vendor VMware is […]

IBM is combining static and dynamic code analysis thanks to tools it acquired from Ounce Labs. The move promises to help fight application security threats. As application security threats continue to grow, the need for greater code quality analysis is critical. One of the key tools in the fight for better and more secure code […]