Sean Michael Kerner

Wal-Mart Adds Onto Data Warehouse NCR’s Teradata division expands a system that links the retail giant with it with vendors. Wal-Mart has expanded its data warehouse with the help of NCR Corp.’s Teradata division, the companies announced today. Neither Teradata nor Wal-Mart officials would provide details about the retail giant’s current installation or expansion. According […]

Open Source. General Public License. Linux. Maybe you’ve read about them, or maybe know somebody running something with these in the title. But maybe you haven’t actually taken any more time to understand the origins of Open Source. You’ve heard the buzz and know that it’s transforming the IT landscape and making inroads around the […]

Sprint today announced two new initiatives to further protect its network customers from malicious attacks. Sprint’s IP Defender and Secure Content Management and Filtering service are both intended to help mitigate excessive bandwidth usage. IP Defender provides 24/7 monitoring of customer traffic and identifies suspected anomalies before they become bigger problems. “What we saw is […]

Novell announced today that it was moving up the timetable by 10 months on its new Open Enterprise Server (OES). The new server, due out in February, will include Novell’s NetWare operating systems, as well as its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9. OES also will include a new common management interface that promises to […]

Open source database server company MySQL’s next production release of its open source MySQL database server will be sporting a new Windows installer, one partially built with an open source project courtesy of Microsoft . The WiX (Windows Installer XML) toolset that MySQL is using is Microsoft’s first official open source project and is freely […]

Mobile SMS users in the United States received a new mobile search tool today courtesy of none other than Google . The new SMS service, now in beta at Google Labs, promises to help mobile users execute search queries via SMS . Google SMS in its present form allows mobile users to search for local […]

Broadband Telephony, better known by the acronym VoIP, is set to grow dramatically over the next five years according to new research. A Jupiter Research report, “Broadband Telephony: Leveraging Voice Over IP to Facilitate Competitive Voice Services” forecasts VoIP adoption will grow from only 1 percent of all US broadband households in 2004 to 17 […]

UPDATED: Novell announced the November availability of SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional. The SUSE Linux Professional product line is on a six-month release cycle. Version 9.1 was released in late April of this year. According to Charlie Ungashick, director of product marketing of Linux OS products at Novell, there was a 200 percent increase in download […]

Time Warner today announced its Digitalphone Voice over IP service for New York and New Jersey customers. According to Howard Szarfarc, president of Time Warner Cable of New York & New Jersey, TWC’s Digitalphone initiative is different from other VoIP-based businesses, because it does not use the “public” Internet to make calls. “Unlike others, Digitalphone […]

Adobe today unveiled a new offering with partner GeoTrust to help verify the integrity and authenticity of documents. Certified Document Services (CDS) is a new integrated service that is available for Adobe’s ubiquitous Acrobat Reader software. The offering is designed to provide added assurance for a document’s authenticity and integrity, so that anyone using Adobe […]

The competition in the commercial supercomputer business is about to heat up, thanks in part to a newly available supercomputer offering from Cray . The company announced Monday that its new XD1 Opteron/Linux based Supercomputer is now generally available. The XD1 is a Linux based cluster running AMD’s popular Opteron 64 bit processor and can […]

Sybase this morning unveiled two new products as part of its efforts to make mobile application development and integration easier. Sybase Unwired Accelerator “mobilizes” Web applications, enabling enterprises to take their Web-enabled applications, services and other data sources and mobilize them without additional programming. Sybase claims that the offering will support “virtually any device,” including […]