Sean Michael Kerner

Social media services like Twitter are becoming increasingly ingrained into our everyday computing experience. The latest push is coming from Yahoo’s new Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 6.0 release, which includes direct integration of a Twitter client together with enterprise e-mail and collaboration capabilities. The Zimbra 6 release is the first major release of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) […]

ICANN, the organization that oversees the administration of the Internet, no longer operates under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, following the expiration of an 11-year partnership that lessens U.S. control over the critical infrastructure body. The Joint Project Agreement (JPA), in effect since 1998, had bound ICANN — officially known as the […]

Software development has seen a shift in how projects are handled, from the more traditional “waterfall” approach to the faster Agile approach, according to Forrester Senior Analyst Dave West. Agile software development is a group of methodologies based on iterative development first devised in 2001 with the creation of the Agile Manifesto. Its intention was […]

New research by Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs division has reached a new optical network transmission record: 100 petabits per second.kilometer. The bit-per-second.kilometers unit of measure is a combination of speed and distance and is considered by Alcatel-Lucent to be a standard measure for high-speed optical transmission. The researchers used 155 lasers to transmit the data at […]

From the ‘Mozilla Agreeing with Microsoft‘ files: Microsoft and Mozilla are two organizations that tend not to agree on many different topics. When it comes to Google’s Chrome Frame, it’s a different story. Mitchell Baker Chair of the Mozilla Foundation has come out swinging against Chrome Frame, which is a plug-in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer […]

From the ‘Big Pipes, Big Money‘ files: Infonetics Research is out with a new forecast on the Carrier Ethernet market. According to Infonetics, revenues from Carrier Ethernet equipment manufacturers will reach $34 billion by 2013. The $34 billion figure is nearly double the $17 billion in Carrier Ethernet equipment manufacturer revenues that Infonetics reported for […]

From the ‘Who Owns the Internet?‘ files: Tomorrow (Sept. 30th) is a big day of the Internet. The Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the U.S Department of Commerce and ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) expires. ICANN has operated under a yearly JPA from the Department of Commerce since 1998. Will it be […]

Avaya’s proposed $900 million deal to acquire the assets of Nortel’s Enterprise business unit is set to face additional scrutiny now that the Canadian Government has announced it will be reviewing the deal. The deal, which will see all of Nortel’s enterprise assets move to Avaya, received the approval of a U.S Bankruptcy Court judge […]

HP-UX has been around for 25 years, and HP keeps on finding ways to improve and update its venerable flagship Unix operating system. In HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) latest update to HP-UX, the OS is getting enhanced security features and memory availability. While Unix is often thought of as being secure and not as vulnerable as […]

From the ‘Practical Utility‘ files: During the Intel Developer Forum this week, Microsoft announced that it was planning on delivering its Silverlight media for Intel’s Moblin Linux. This was a piece of news that caught me off guard a bit. After all, isn’t Novell’s Moonlight effort, Silverlight on Linux? What’s the point of replicating what […]