Sean Michael Kerner

Yahoo is strengthening its enterprise collaboration and e-mail capabilities with the $350 million cash purchase of open source e-mail collaboration startup Zimbra. It is not clear as to how many of Zimbra’s 100 employees Yahoo will retain, but according to a Q&A posted on Zimbra’s site, Zimbra’s co-founder and CEO, Satish Dharmaraj, CTO Scott Dietzen […]

Darl McBride, president and CEO of The SCO Group , assured customers and partners that they can rely on the company despite bankruptcy. The embattled Unix vendor revealed that it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Friday afternoon. The move does not, however, mean that SCO is throwing […]

The fact that Linux is big business for IBM should come as no surprise to those who follow Big Blue. During the last decade IBM has steadily ramped up its Linux efforts to the point where it has now become a core offering across IBM’s server and software product lines. Sitting at the helm of […]

BitTorrent is one of the most popular mechanisms for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. For the most part BitTorrent client applications have been standalone tools, but now, thanks to open source startup AllPeers, Firefox users can take advantage of BitTorrent inside of their browsers. “With AllPeers you just click on a link for a torrent and […]

There was a time when all a carrier had to do to meet demand was increase its bandwidth. But with average revenue per user (ARPU) trending flat, carriers are under increasing demand to get more out of their networks than an increase in bandwidth will provide. The answer, according to Yankee Group analyst Mark Bieberich, […]

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaws are among the most common type of Web 2.0 vulnerability. They can also occur in RSS and Atom feeds and it could happen to almost anyone. Even IBM. A Japanese security researcher has alleged that an Atom format syndication feed on IBM.com was at risk from an XSS attack. The flaw […]

There are a lot of different ways to connect the dots of content and data that comprise the Web. Two of them are microformats and the GRDDL (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages) Semantic Web construct. Both approaches have attempted to make sense of content by making use of metadata descriptors, but they differ […]

Cisco Systems’ IronPort division is perhaps best known for its anti-spam e-mail appliances and technologies. But it wants to be known for more. That might happen with the new encryption and data-loss prevention (DLP) features it’s rolling out in its new AsyncOS operating system 5.5 release. The AsyncOS operating system powers IronPort’s e-mail security appliances. […]

One of the primary ways that open source vendors make money is the subscription model where users pay an annual fee for services and support. MySQL today has updated that model with its latest version of MySQL Enterprise, its commercial subscription service. MySQL is also expanding its solution set with a number of new, still-under […]

When disaster strikes as it did on 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, first responders need to get to the scenes as fast as possible. It’s also imperative that the authorities know who is there and what their skills are. Actually providing access credentials in a timely manner to first responders has been an expensive endeavor but […]

Network Access Control (NAC) is one of great cornerstones of Cisco’s Self Defending Network initiative, which promises end-to-end security for enterprise networks. Cisco is now expanding its NAC offering with a new module for its widely deployed Integrated Services Router (ISR), as well as a new profiling tool that applies a behavior-based profiling approach for […]

Patents can sometime be a murky business, where one vendor unknowingly infringes on a patent holder’s intellectual property. Apparently that’s not the case in the four-year-old legal suit between consumer electronics giant Toshiba and networking gear vendor Juniper Networks. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Sue L. Robinson has upheld […]