Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Open Government‘ files: WhiteHouse.gov, the official website for the President of the United States is now based on open source technology. Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal open source content management system has announced that WhiteHouse.gove is now a Drupal site. This is a big deal, though regular users will not notice […]

Hamid AkhavanSource: Deutsche Telekom There was a time — not all that long ago — when the telecom industry was all about voice communications with a simple telephone. That’s no longer the case, and it’s creating both huge headaches and major opportunities for carriers and consumers, according to Hamid Akhavan, chief operating officer of Deutsche […]

The broadband revolution has made it easier then ever before for people to obtain pirate copies of movies and TV shows. It’s a practice that US media giant NBC Universal is aggressively trying to put to an end with filtering technologies and legal efforts to protect its intellectual property. Speaking at the Supercomm conference, Richard […]

Is the recession over? Not quite, but according to the CEO of networking vendor Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR), it’s seeing signs in its business that indicate a recovery is underway. That doesn’t mean that everything is rosy yet. For its third-quarter financial results, Juniper reported net revenues of $823.9 million, which is a 13 percent decline […]

From the “Singing in the Rain‘ files: Mozilla is now testing yet another technology to try and help us all integrate the various messages we all generate everyday. The new Raindrop effort comes from the Mozilla Messaging division as a way to help unify conversations. “Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations […]

The White House is racing to integrate technology and innovation into its day-to-day operations, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said today in a keynote address at the Supercomm conference. Technology isn’t just a priority on its own sake, Chopra said. Rather, he is exploring areas where technology can have the greatest impact on developing smart policies […]

From the ‘O RLY?‘ files: Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVO (pic left) is on a mission to further innovate the way we all consume content on our TVs. Speaking at the Supercomm conference in a keynote session, Rogers gave some insight into what the next generation of TiVO will be all about. “You […]

From the ‘Hyped Linux Anticipation‘ files: Not far now… Ubuntu 9.10 RC is now available, marking the final step before the general availability of the Karmic Koala next week. Might have been fun, if it had reached general availability today, with the Windows 7 release, but hey the release is only 7 days away. As […]

The United States does not have the highest broadband penetration rate or the highest speeds in the world, but telecom and cable execs still think that Americans have a lot to be proud of. Speaking at the Supercomm conference in Chicago, Cox Communications President Patrick Esser challenged the audience to imagine their lives without broadband […]

The networking world is now at a cross roads with increasing demands for more bandwidth while at the same time trying to deal with effects of a global recession. But it’s not all doom and gloom. According to a Supercomm conference panel of top technology officers from Verizon (NYSE:VZ), AT&T (NYSE:T), Sprint (NYSE:S), Quest (NYSE:Q) […]

From the ‘Number Games‘ files: What constitutes a major vs. a minor release for a browser vendor? The upcoming Firefox 3.6 release is going to be classified as a minor update to the open source browser, as opposed to being a major update like Firefox 3.5. The difference between a minor and a major release […]