Sean Michael Kerner

For most online consumers, a username and a password are the only two items used to identify and authenticate themselves with online services. But they’re not necessarily always enough to secure an identity properly and are often the target of fraud and identity theft. A new effort led by VeriSign is about to address that […]

Network security threats come in all shapes and sizes and it’s not always as easy as it should be to protect against them. Cisco is aiming to simplify how enterprises protect themselves against network security threats with a series of updates and new products announced today. Cisco issued its new Security Management Suite, along with […]

PayPal had a record year in 2005, a trend the electronic payment provider is hoping to continue with a newly launched developer integration center. PayPal’s new integration center is an effort to make it easier for developers to understand and integrate PayPal into their applications. The effort comes as Paypal faces the potential specter of […]

UPDATED: Do you know what the leading mobile OS was in 2005? According to a new report from research firm The Diffusion Group (TDG), Symbian’s once ironclad grip on the mobile space is slipping and soon expected to yield its title in the fiercely competitive mobile OS arena. Symbian held a 51 percent market share […]

As the mobile and embedded industry continues to face various intellectual property and patent challenges, Microsoft is upping the indemnification ante it offers its partners. Microsoft Embedded and Windows Mobile OEM partners and distributors will now enjoy the same level of protection that other Microsoft platform partners have benefited from. Microsoft claims that the new […]

Five months ago the first rumors of a Vonage IPO first began to surface. It turns out those rumors were true. VoIP darling Vonage has filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission in an offering that is expected to fetch $250 million, a far cry from the $600 million Vonage was rumored […]

The enterprise collaboration market got a bit more competitive today with the release of the open source Zimbra collaboration and messaging server. Zimbra, which has been in beta use for over a year has now officially released its’ flagship product Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0 (ZCS) and made it generally available. Though Zimbra will work from […]

There are a number of really good reasons to update to the latest version of Java. Not the least of which is the fact that older versions of the Java Runtime Environment have now been reported to be at risk from seven highly critical vulnerabilities. Sun advisory number 102171 describes the vulnerabilities and is titled, […]

Accounting scandals can be very costly. That would seem to be an obvious lesson in recent years, a settlement reached today by Nortel Networks helps to further underscore that point. Today, Nortel announced a deal to settle a class-action lawsuit relating to its 2004 accounting scandal. The cost? A cool $2.5 billion. According to the […]

For most global enterprises, Ethernet is the technology that connects everything and delivers bandwidth for all needs. The highest bandwidth commercially available via Ethernet is 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE), but a grassroots effort led by Force10 Networks is now hoping to improve that speed all the way up to 100 Gigabit or more. 100 […]

BitTorrent, a tool used by both software pirates and software distributors, is gaining a measure of legitimacy thanks to browser maker Opera Software. Opera is the first company to officially license the use of the trademark, “BitTorrent” from BitTorrent Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Opera now is able to use the BitTorrent trademark […]

The Linux desktop is about to get a 3-D makeover courtesy of Novell. Novell is contributing a new graphics subsystem called “Xgl” and the associated “Compiz” compositing manager to the granddaddy of all Linux and UNIX windowing infrastructures, X.org. The move may well herald in a new era of graphics power for Linux and according […]