Sean Michael Kerner

The economy is down but revenue and income are up at cable and ISP giant Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA). Comcast is not totally unscathed by the economy though, there are feeling some effects of the slowdown with slower growth in high speed Internet connections. Comcast reported second-quarter revenues of $8.9 billion, which is a 4.5 percent […]

From the ‘multi-layered defense‘ files: There are a number of myths and misconceptions about how modern anti-virus (AV) technologies work. It used to be that they just used signatures of known malware, but is that still the case? I recently sat down with Roel Schouwenberg, Senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, to get his take […]

From the ‘they’re still around?‘ files: The judge in the on-going SCO bankruptcy case has denied SCO’s attempt to sell itself off. Back in June, SCO tried to sell off part of its business to investor Stephen Norris in an effort to seperate SCO’s Unix business and it’s ongoing litigation against Novell and IBM. Both […]

From the “Have you updated yet?” files: Sun is out this week with a significant security update for Java SE 6. US-CERT warns that the Java vulnerabilities could potentially enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code or bypass authentication methods. Technically speaking, the update is labeled update 15 (6u15) and is accompanied by no less […]

From the ‘have you updated yet?‘ files: Sun is out this week with a significant security update for Java SE 6.  US-CERT warns that the Java vulnerabilities could potentially enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code or bypass authentication methods. Technically speaking, the update is labeled update 15 (6u15) and is accompanied by no less […]

Cisco will be looking to new market opportunities to help pull itself out of the current economic slowdown. That’s the message that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers gave to investors during the company’s quarterly investor conference call late Wednesday. While Cisco has historically built its business on the back of strong carrier and enterprise […]

From ‘time to update‘ files: Apple is out with the Mac OS X 10.5.8 security update release fixing a range of issues. At the top of the list is a flaw in how OS X handles compressed bzip files. According to Apple’s advisory on the issue, “Decompressing maliciously crafted data may lead to an unexpected […]

From the ‘economic slowdown stats‘ files: Research firm Dell ‘Oro Group put out a report this week on the Worldwide Shared Hub, Ethernet & LAN Switch market. The report shows the damage that the current economy has done to the switch market. For 2009, Dell ‘Oro is forecasting global Ethernet switch revenues of $15.8 billion […]

KDE 4.3. Click to enlarge. The open source KDE desktop is out with a new release that promises greater speed, improved stability and more features aimed at regular users. According to its developers, KDE 4.3 — codenamed “Caizen” — benefits from 63,000 changes, of which over 10,000 were bug fixes made since the KDE 4.2 release eight […]