Sean Michael Kerner

LAS VEGAS — In a city built on excess, it’s very appropriate that the CEO of one of the nation’s largest carriers took the stage at NXTcomm to preach that same concept. “‘More’ is what broadband and mobile tech mean to society as we enter the next generation of the digital revolution,” said Denny Strigl, […]

So how many downloads did Firefox 3 have in its first 24 hours? According to John Lilly CEO of Mozilla it was a little more than 8.3 million downloads. In total Lilly noted that Mozilla served up 83 terabytes of data. That after Mozilla’s servers had a minor overload in the a.m. yesterday, but Mozilla […]

From the ‘not everyone knows about open source yet‘ files: LAS VEGAS — I just got out of a Q&A session with Verizon Communications President and COO Denny Strigl and being an open source guy I asked Strigl about open source. Specifically I asked what role does open source play at Verizon now, especially in […]

LAS VEGAS — Think big telecom carriers don’t use open source? Think again. While telecommunications may appear dominated by proprietary solutions, BT, the industry giant formerly known as British Telecom, is a big supporter of open source. And its experiences might serve as an guide for how other industries might make use of the trend […]

When I first started using Linux years ago one of the first projects that I had an interest in was WINE (Wine Is Not a Windows Emulator). The basic idea of WINE is that you could run Win32 (call it Windows) applications in Linux. It kinda sorta but didn’t really work at first it was […]

LAS VEGAS. The ‘funny’ thing about networking is it all really looks the same on the outside for the most part – no matter how awesome the underlying technology. Case in point is a demo I saw here at NXTcomm for 100GbE – that’s 100 gigabits per second of Ethernet traffic on a single port. […]

LAS VEGAS — AT&T (NYSE: T) is driving global prosperity. At least, that’s the thinking of Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of the country’s No. 1 wireless carrier, during his opening keynote here at the NXTcomm conference. Stephenson, no stranger to NXTcomm after kicking off the show in Chicago last year, delivered a message today […]

LAS VEGAS — For the big U.S. telecom networks, the telephone itself is now the least of their worries as they form the backbone of all forms of data connectivity — the Internet, video and mobility. In a panel session at NXTcomm, top technology executives from AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Qwest (NYSE: […]

LAS VEGAS. Man it’s hot outside. I’m at the NXTcomm show in Las Vegas and this morning’s keynote didn’t get off on a great start.  It started over 10 minutes late (and after I rushed over to get here for 8 AM too).  At 7:55 AM an announcement came over the PA system stating the […]

LAS VEGAS — The race for faster Internet connection speeds just blazed past a milestone with one of the first public demonstrations of a working 100 GbE (100 Gigabit Ethernet) link. The demonstration is at the NXTcomm conference and trade show in Las Vegas and involved a return loop of 100GbE traffic to Las Angeles. […]

After more than 18 months of development and a slew of releases — including five alphas, five betas and three Release Candidates — the wait for Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is nearly over. Starting today at 10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, the Web browser will become available in its final form, introducing a myriad of new […]

From the ‘everyone wants to float in the cloud‘ files: Red Hat is now making its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform available ‘in the cloud’ over Amazon’s EC2. The JBoss move follows Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)which became available on EC2 in November of 2007. “The availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon EC2 helps […]