Sean Michael Kerner

Avaya is jumping into the P2P Voice over IP market with the acquisition of Nimcat Networks. Under the publicly disclosed terms of the deal, announced today, Avaya will be paying approximately $40 million for the privately held Ottawa, Canada-based company. Nimcat Networks has created a patented technology that provides its users with traditional PBX functionality […]

On Labor Day weekend 1995, eBay was born. Over the last 10 years its effects on the Internet are wide ranging, and for many it is more than just an e-commerce vehicle. It’s a way of life. According to a July 2005 ACNeilsen survey, more than 724,000 Americans reported being “professional” eBay sellers earning their […]

The SSL VPN market heated up this week with the Juniper Networks release of a new managed and virtualized platform for service providers. But it’s not the only company vying for a piece. Juniper’s competitor Cisco Systems is also in the market with a similar solution set to capitalize on the explosive demand for SSL […]

After being in the blogging business for two and half years, Google has released Google Blog Search, in beta. Google Blog Search is based on Google’s search technology specifically focused on the blogosphere. Googlebot automatically crawls blogs that offer RSS or Atom syndication feeds. In February 2003, Google first officially entered the blogosphere by purchasing […]

It seems almost everyone is jumping into VoIP these days. The name Nero is often thought of in the context of things that burn—as in ancient Rome or modern DVDs. Nero, the software company, however, is mending its incendiary ways and remolding itself into a VoIP company—as evidenced by the new SIPPSTAR IP-PBX and SIPPS […]

Everyone seems to have spare change that’s just lying around. Thanks to an innovative new program from Coinstar, you can now take that spare change and use it to buy stuff on Amazon.com. Coinstar operates units at 44,000 retail locations that help consumers convert their loose change into cash or credit. Under the new offer […]

As IM security threats continue to mount, so too grow the solutions geared to protect against such threats. Managed security vendor Postinitoday announced that it would be entering the IM security fray with a new hosted solution. Postini Perimeter Manager for IM is designed to help protect users against viruses and worms. The solution benefits […]

A pair of potential security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel has been patched with a new point release. The two issues may affect all Linux Kernel versions prior to the patched 2.6.13.1, which was released late last week. The 2.6.13 kernel was released just two weeks ago. Neither of the vulnerabilities are reported to be […]

Summer is a time for vacation, for introspection and for summer student internships. In 1967, it was about love. And in 2005, it was about code –- for Google, that is. About 9,000 people applied to Google for the paid opportunity to participate in Google’s Summer of Code program, an open source development project aimed […]

PalmSource is set to be acquired by Tokyo-based Access for $324 million. The companies said the deal is expected to close by the end of 2005. Access is a mobile technology company that has the aim of “enabling Internet access anywhere and on any device.” PalmSource is the firm that develops the once-dominant Palm OS […]

With nearly a billion instant messaging accounts in use worldwide, what is the current state of instant messaging market and where does it go from here? According to a panel of IM vendors including Microsoft, AOL, Akonix and IMLogic, enterprise adoption, IM security, the impact of Google’s entrance are just a sampling of IM’s horizon. […]

Searching for Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet, became a little bit easier today. You just have to go to Google. The head office, that is. Google announced today that it hired Cerf as Chief Internet Evangelist. Cerf is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Internet for […]