Sean Michael Kerner

Novell  today officially rolled out its Novell Access Manager 3 solution, claiming that it is the first to integrate all aspects of access Management. It isn’t a full NAC (network access control) solution yet; or is it? Novell defines Access Manager 3 as a “single access management solution.” It provides and enables both local and […]

McAfee is continued its acquisition spree yet again, this time with the $20 million cash purchase of privately held data-protection solutions vendor Onigma Ltd. Onigma’s data-loss prevention product will now be rolled into a new McAfee Data Loss Prevention solution that aims to protect enterprises against the risks of unauthorized data transfer. The solution will […]

When you buy your competitor, they’re supposed to stop being your competitor, right? Security vendor GeoTrust was acquired by VeriSign earlier this year for $125 million in cash. But apparently, VeriSign didn’t get all of GeoTrust, as the former GeoTrust CEO, Neal Creighton spun out a former GeoTrust subsidiary to create a company that will […]

The first Web boom was a period in which many entrepreneurs got rich very quick. One such entrepreneur is Michael Yang who sold his MySimon shopping site to CNET for $700 million in the year 2000. Yang is back in the startup game again, and again with a shopping site. This time out, the enterprise […]

You won’t have to wait another five years to see a new browser from Microsoft. That’s the message that Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 developers told participants in an online chat today on the eve of Microsoft’s first major browser release in over five years. “We definitely plan to release on a regular basis,” Dave Massy, […]

The business of making WANs and applications run faster over the same pipe is a hotly contested business. Vendors such as Juniper Networks , Silver Peak, Riverbed , Blue Coat and Citrix are among those vying for a piece of the multi-billion dollar market. Each has new products just out or close to release. Juniper […]

BSD is just for servers right? Not necessarily. PC-BSD is an attempt to provide a desktop friendly version of FreeBSD. PC-BSD is now being “acquired” by privately held San Jose, Calif.-based enterprise hardware solution provider iXsystems for an undisclosed sum. The new parent company for PC-BSD is expected to help further drive and support the […]

There was a time when Qualcomm’s Eudora e-mail program was one of the most-used applications in the world. That time is long gone. The company announced today that it would cease producing commercial versions of Eudora, which it has been using and developing since 1991 when the project started as a freeware effort. It’s going […]

IPv6 is coming and it’s big business for companies such as Global Crossing and Computer Sciences Corporation . The two companies have entered into an agreement that will see Global Crossing deploy IPv6 across the CSC network. CSC will now make IPv6 services available to its customers in both government and commercial enterprises. Financial terms […]

A new Cisco sponsored global study of 1,000 remote workers indicates that IT workers may well be engaged in more insecure activities than they are willing to admit. Users are apparently aware of insecure activities, such as opening e-mail attachments from unknown senders; yet they still open the attachments and e-mails. The study, which was […]

Though not much has changed on the surface in more than month, the latest Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (FF2 RC2) continues to fix issues under the hood. FF RC2 follows the RC1 release by nearly two weeks and is primarily a bug fix that improves the stability of the browser ahead of its […]

GNU  to the rescue. GNU, which is a recursive acronym that stands for GNU is Not Unix, first set out in 1984 to develop a Unix-like operating system as Free Software. It is now gearing up to provide a “free” version of Mozilla’s (not-so-free) Firefox browser. The GNU version is called IceWeasel and is part […]