Sean Michael Kerner

Juniper Networks wants a big piece of the carrier Ethernet equipment market, which Synergy Research said will hit $7 billion in revenue by 2011. The best way to achieve that goal? Launch new carrier Ethernet equipment. “Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent have a 60 percent share of this market and that’s who we’re going after,” David Boland, […]

Something is amiss in the network of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and a U.S. congressman is implicating Unisys in security failures stemming from alleged intrusions into the department’s servers. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, urged DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner in a Sept. 21 letter to […]

Sun Microsystems has gone to great lengths in recent years to make its Solaris operating system more open by going open source. But “open” doesn’t always mean “easy.” That changes today, with the Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 9/07 release, which is highlighted by new features to make the software easier to actually get up […]

In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives. But what about context? What about connecting related information and content in a semantic context? The hyperlink of the early era isn’t […]

Among the many reasons why Mozilla’s Firefox browser has become popular is the fact that it’s relatively easy to build and install add on extensions for it. That ease of extensibility however has a potential dark side to it. Those same extensions that add power to Firefox, generally speaking, could arguably represent a security risk […]

Modern networks are a complex patchwork of applications and protocols. Trying to troubleshoot performance and monitor activity is big business. Today it got bigger for NetScout Systems, which announced it was acquiring rival Network General. NetScout said it will acquire Network General from Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in a cash, stock, and […]

Saving power has become a mainstream concern in the enterprise and at home, as IT users aim to cut costs and do their part to help save the planet. There are a lot of different ways that technology users can reduce their power, and chip maker Intel is putting a number of them under one […]

Finding bugs in software is no easy task. One of the most popular methods is something known as static-code analysis, which typically involves a data-flow analysis that looks for defects along a code path. The problem is that data-flow analysis on its own can potentially yield false positives. Code-analysis vendor Coverity claims to have a […]

Mozilla has mobilized its Firefox developers and come up with a patched version of its open source browser to protect against a zero day exploit involving Apple’s QuickTime. Firefox 2.0.0.7 is expected to be officially released later today and will plug the flaw. On Sept. 12 security researcher Petko D. Petkov reported that Apple QuickTime […]

We now know what finally motivated SCO to pull the trigger and file for bankruptcy protection. In an SEC filing, SCO reported continuing losses and lamented the recent courtroom setbacks that have hobbled the embattled Unix vendor. SCO said its net loss for the third quarter of 2007 was $2.5 million, or $0.11 per diluted […]

Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client has yet to enjoy the same degree of success as the Firefox Web browser, which has become one of the most successful open source projects ever with over 400 million downloads. Mozilla is aiming to improve Thunderbird’s fortunes with a new organization that will spearhead development and grow the e-mail client’s […]

PHP developers, welcome to the wider world of Eclipse. Today the Eclipse Foundation released the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) 1.0 project, making Eclipse a playground for developers of other dynamic languages than Java. “A lot of people are using Eclipse for integrating tools, and lots of developers use more than one language,” Ian Skerrett, […]