Sean Michael Kerner

WeatherBug launched a new enterprise version of its desktop weather application, hoping to take corporations by storm. Gaithersburg, Md.-based WeatherBug has a network of over 7,000 weather stations that it has installed in schools across the United States. Data from those weather stations and other sources are instantly available through the downloadable WeatherBug application, either […]

A new survey by Yankee Group finds that enterprises are embracing service oriented architectures in their networks at a much swifter pace. The report, “2004 U.S. Enterprise Web Service Survey,” surveyed 437 enterprises across the U.S from the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and wireless sectors. Seventy-five percent of the decision-makers who responded said the company […]

Social networking site Friendster has struck a deal with Voice over IP provider Voiceglo in order to offer the IP telephony service to millions of the site’s users. The new “Friendster Phone,” powered by Voiceglo’s GloPhone technology, will allow the social networking site users to make free calls to other users on the VoIP system. […]

Red Hat kicked off its analyst day in New York today by announcing its was going to acquire parts of the Netscape Enterprise solution from AOL. The company will pay $20.5 million in cash in the deal, which is expected to close by the third quarter, according to regulatory filings. The Netscape Directory Server is […]

Cisco Systems announced this week that it achieved a new U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) certification for its IP telephony solutions. The DoD already uses Cisco technology, but the JITC PBX2 certification deepens the relationship, allowing for switched call connections within DoD organizations to utilize and deploy Cisco IP telephony solutions. “The U.S. Department of […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has added another project to the SourceForge.net open source software repository. This time, it is called FlexWiki, which is an ASP.NET implementation of a wiki . As internetnews.com first reported in July, the project marks the third collaboration with SourceForge, which is subsidiary of VA Software , the parent company of slashdot.org. FlexWiki […]

An increase in commercial PC demand growth has caused market research firm IDC to revise its forecast for 2004 PC shipments, the firm announced today. IDC Research said that it was raising its expectation for 2004 PC shipments to reflect a total growth rate of 14.2 percent on shipments of 176.5 million units. The revised […]

Ingram Micro Inc. today announced during a conference call that it has entered into an agreement that will increase its reach in the Asia Pacific region. The company will acquire Australia-based tech distributor Tech Pacific for approximately $493 million ($700 million Australian dollars). The transaction is expected to close by the end of this year […]

The nascent market for Web services will swell dramatically over the next four years, spreading well into the global arena, according to new research released today. Radicati Group’s “Web Services Market 2004-2008” reports that the combined market for Web services solutions, management, integration and security will be worth $950 million in 2004. By 2008, that […]

Open source Voice over IP is ready for its close up. Asterisk, a popular Voice over IP PBX , has released version 1.0.0. Asterisk is a software Private Branch exchange (PBX) that also acts as an IVR platform, as well as handling a myriad of other telephony related functionality. It is an open source project […]

Linux vendor Mandrakesoft is teaming with a consortium of European partners in an effort to win Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5), the highest security certification for defense and other highly sensitive areas of governmental IT operations. The French Ministry of Defense is sponsoring the project in a three-year, €7 million deal. The rigorous […]

Microsoft fired another shot in its war on spam with a lawsuit against a Web hosting company that claimed to help spammers avoid being shut down. The suit is against a Web hosting company operating under the domain name cheapbulletproofhosting.com. “Our servers are all China-based to ensure no problems arise from complaints generated by e-mail […]