Sean Michael Kerner

CHICAGO — FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is a busy man. He’s got policies and initiatives to lead and develop that will change the competitive landscape for carriers in the U.S. He’s also expecting the birth of a child, so instead of flying here for the NXTcomm conference, he joined attendees via a live video link. […]

CHICAGO — The new AT&T has a new CEO, and he’s raring to go with a plan to put the company on top. A new mobile video service will help the cause, and the much-anticipated iPhone won’t hurt, either. Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, presented his vision for the new AT&T during a […]

CHICAGO — The IP networks of today aren’t particularly smart or open. Simply put, they carry traffic. The IP networks of tomorrow, according to a panel at the NXTcomm conference here that included Juniper Networks , Verizon , BT Group  and Microsoft , will be more open and offer degrees of dynamic control that improve […]

CHICAGO — Attendees at the NXTcomm conference that kicks off today had a bit of at surprise when they entered into the one of opening keynotes for the event. Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert had originally been scheduled to speak but that was before the company announced his departure last week. Instead, Dan Yost, Qwest executive […]

Government users, it’s time to trust Linux vendor Red Hat . After over a year and a half of effort, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has now achieved the Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4+) for Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP), Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP), and Role-Based Access Control Protection Profile (RBAC). The new […]

The winds of network change have been gusting for years and have now become an outright storm of change. It’s a storm that will be blowing through the Windy City of Chicago next week at the NXTcomm conference. If you’re thinking that you’ve never heard of NXTcomm, you’re not alone. It’s a new name for […]

Novell and its former partner Open-Xchange are updating their collaboration offers in an effort to make their respective products more feature rich for users. For Open-Xchange it’s an update to its flagship Open-Xchange Server 5, though it’s not a full release. “This release was sort of a combination between a service pack and a maintenance […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is revising its remote-monitoring capability in an updated offering. Red Hat Command Center is a hosted offering that provides remote monitoring of IT infrastructure servers and applications. The new version gets additional monitoring capabilities as well as a new pricing structure, as Red Hat grapples with competition from Oracle and others […]

UPDATED: And then there were three. Microsoft and Lindows (now called Linspire) are putting years of legal sparring behind them now that the company has bought into Microsoft’s Linux patent covenants. Linspire is the third company after Novell and Xandros to enter into a patent covenant with Microsoft regarding open source applications. “Over the years, […]

TORONTO — Omakase is the ultimate Japanese food experience where the Sushi chef prepares a meal specifically for the tastes of the individual diner. Omakase also describes the goal of search engines to deliver tailored ads to searchers. Today, more than 10 years after the search engines first offered that promise, Google and Microsoft in […]

TORONTO — Seth Godin, the celebrated author of Permission Marketing and other seminal marketing classics, knows a thing or two about getting attention. In a filled-to-capacity presentation here at the Search Engine Strategies Canada conference, Godin said that search is no longer about shouting louder than others so that people will hear your message. “Search […]

TORONTO — The more things change, the more they stay the same, especially with search engines. In a series of presentations at Search Engine Strategies Canada conference here, search optimization experts and representatives from the big four search engines emphasized that the basics of search optimization are the same as they always have been. It’s […]