Sean Michael Kerner

Eclipse is more than just an open source Java IDE — it’s at least 21 projects more. The Eclipse Foundation today unveiled 21 different projects encompassing more than 17 million lines of code. The new release train called Eclipse Europa is the largest release yet from Eclipse as it continues to build community and features […]

Yt? (you there?) If you’re not “there” yet you will be soon. Instant messaging isn’t just for teenagers anymore; it’s a serious enterprise communications tool that is soon set to dominate as the principal form of real-time communications. At least that’s the prediction being made by Gartner analyst David Smith, who is forecasting that 95 […]

Linux vendor Red Hat  is a company that is keen on living up to its open source promises. In March Red Hat acquired several technologies from software vendor Exadel, then pledged to open source them. Now, it’s making good on its word. Exadel’s RichFaces and Ajax4jsf moved over to Red Hat’s JBoss.org collaborative development site […]

Nearly seven months after it bought security firm Ironport for $830 million, Cisco is leveraging the investment into a new strategic direction. Ironport’s anti-spam, security software and appliance technologies are now part of the new Cisco Self Defending Network 3.0 platform, which integrates a wide range of security products from the networking vendor. “What we’re […]

A security researcher is alleging that Yahoo  was at risk from a pair of critical phishing and redirection vulnerabilities. One of them may well still be open too. Security Researcher Aditya K Sood posted a security advisory on a public mailing list explaining that, ” a severe redirection and phishing vulnerability have been found in […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Convergence. Triple Play. IP. Ethernet. After four days at NXTcomm in Chicago, I probably heard each of those words 1,000 times or more. Make no mistake about it, as I had figured before the show even began, NXTcomm 2007 was, indeed, all about convergence, what that means and how to do it. The […]

CHICAGO — WiMAX is no pipe dream. For years vendors and politicians have said it was coming. Now we know exactly when. In a packed session here at NXTcomm Sprint-Nextel CTO Barry West outlined his company’s WiMAX deployments and the reasons why he is confident it will win the battle for 4G wireless supremacy against […]

CHICAGO — Convergence has been a key IT buzzword for years. For Alcatel-Lucent it means a few different things, because it applies to both IT convergence, as well as the convergence of the two companies. In a meeting with press and analysts at NXTcomm here, Cindy Christy, president of Alcatel-Lucent North America, outlined how her […]

CHICAGO — Wireless is going even wider with broadband, of this there is little doubt. There is doubt, however, about which of the competing technology approaches will win out in the wireless broadband horse race. During a panel session here at NXTcomm, panelists from Nokia Siemens Networks, Motorola and Bechtel Communications debated the various approaches […]

CHICAGO — It’s a broadband world, or at least it’s soon to be a broadband U.S. if Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg has his way. In a keynote address and in a session with press and analysts that followed here at NXTcomm, Seidenberg boasted of Verizon’s success and revealed his thoughts on the iPhone […]

CHICAGO — What’s the head of a major media company doing at a telecom show? Call it the proof that convergence is, indeed, here. Bob Wright, vice chairman and executive officer of General Electric, which owns and operates NBC Universal, took the stage at NXTcomm to discuss how his company is working with carriers to […]

CHICAGO — There was a time when carrier networks were just about the plumbing. Those days are now over, according to Cisco  CEO John Chambers. In a keynote session and in a lively session with press and analysts that followed at the NXTcomm show here, Chambers revealed his thoughts about where the carrier market is […]