Sean Michael Kerner

With a slew of security-related networking offerings under its belt, Cisco is at it again with an über-strategy to unify role-based security and identity management across a network infrastructure. The goal for the new Cisco Trusted Security effort is to provide an architecture that simplifies management and creates a framework for multiple authentication systems. The […]

The whole point of instant messaging is to enable instant communication between parties. Google gets that message loud and clear with its move to enable Gmail chat users to chat with AOL’s AIM instant messaging users. AIM users, however, may still have some issues to deal with if they want to talk to their friends […]

For over a year, JotSpot members and would-be users have waited for a sign from Google that it planned to do something with its wiki site. Now a faint glimmer of hope may be beginning to appear. Google acquired JotSpot in October 2006 for an undisclosed sum. Immediately afterward, the online behemoth closed JotSpot to […]

Enterprise IT buyers have long been wary of the gap between the performance promised on a networking vendor’s data sheet and a device’s real-world effectiveness. Networking giant Cisco thinks that it has the answer, at least when it comes to intrusion prevention systems, or IPS , with its newest high-end appliance, the IPS 4270. Cisco […]

For the last several years, Red Hat has been pushing forward the development of real-time enhancements for Linux. Yet the company has made no formal product announcement of how it would attempt to productize its real-time Linux innovations. That changed today, with the announcement of the Red Hat MRG (Messaging, Real Time and Grid) platform. […]

Being fast isn’t good enough for WAN optimization vendor Packeteer Networks. It wants to be fast and smart with its new Intelligent Service Assurance architecture, which the vendor hopes will take the WAN acceleration market to the next level. “The industry is focused on optimization and there are different pieces out there looking to optimize […]

Google has created one of the most powerful search tools in the history of Web humanity. One of its goals along the way was to archive all of human knowledge. Another was to not be evil. But the company discovered that at the intersection of archiving all human knowledge and not being evil is malware. […]

UPDATED: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning about a serious flaw in Apple’s QuickTime that cold let an attacker gain control of a user’s computer. Apple has not yet patched the flaw. US-CERT issued the warning in a Technical Cyber Security Alert earlier this week. Don’t think the […]

UPDATED: Millions of people rely on the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, but now some of them might not be able to access the content they want, thanks to the latest update. A bug affecting the way the browser handles the Canvas HTML element was introduced in this week’s 2.0.0.10 release. Canvas is an advanced HTML […]

What do you do when you’re locked in a battle for network access market share with the world’s largest networking provider? If you’re Nortel, you team up with one of the world’s largest software providers. Nortel is strengthening its Microsoft integration by supporting Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) and its critical Statement of Health (SOH) […]

Marketing messages that litter e-mail inboxes don’t have to make you angry. They can pay you. That’s the concept behind anti-spam startup Boxbe, with its free service for Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail and Google Gmail users. The Boxbe service integrates with e-mail solutions and provides users with a dashboard that lets them decide if they […]

Get ’em while they’re young. As part of its continuing efforts to get young people interested and involved in open source software development, Google is launching a contest just for high school and secondary school students. All you have to be is a student age 13 or older who hasn’t started college and you too […]