Sean Michael Kerner

First it was King Kong, now TowerStream. The WiMAX contender is moving to the top of the Empire State Building. TowerStream announced today that it has added a wireless Point-of-Presence (PoP) 800 feet above NYC on the Empire State Building. The deployment complements TowerStream’s other wireless PoPs in the New York metro area. TowerStream is […]

Open source content management systems have faced an uphill battle against their proprietary counterparts over the last number of years. That’s something that Computer Associates hopes to change with its new partnership and involvement with tech consulting shop Zope Corporation. The two will team on an open source content management framework and its derivative open […]

UPDATED: What a difference a Linux strategy can make. A year after launching its Linux support with Netware 7 and six months after acquiring SUSE Linux, networking software maker Novell is seeing the fruits of its strategy pan out. The company said net income in its second fiscal quarter was $10.4 million. But one-time charges […]

File Transfer Protocol has been a stalwart standard of the Internet protocol for many years. Now, Ipswitch has upgraded its WS-FTP server to do more than send files over the Internet. “We’re looking at how to link the movement of data to a business process,” Ipswitch COO Bill Pollack said in a statement. “We’re making […]

Contact management provider Plaxo has a big new booster in its corner: hardware giant Cisco Systems, which has joined a round of financing for the company. Plaxo made the announcement that Cisco invested $7 million in the latest financing round as the company launched its latest contact management release, Plaxo 2.0. “We represent a new […]

Open Source database vendor MySQL AB released its latest incremental release last week (version 4.0.20), but according to some in the community, it still doesn’t address what some say serious licensing concerns. The licensing issue prevents it from being included in some Linux distributions and working together, from a licensing perspective, with PHP. Last week, […]

UPDATED: In an effort to respond to recent questions about the authorship and sources of the Linux kernel, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) said Monday it would support a new contributor documentation step in the Linux kernel submission process. Called the new Developer’s Certificate of Origin (DCO), the effort tracks contributions and contributors to make […]

In a move considered by some to be an easing of tensions between rivals, Oracle has joined Microsoft’s Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program as a premier-level partner. “Microsoft is pleased to announce our partnership with Oracle,” said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Servers and Tools at Microsoft in a statement issued Thursday. “The […]

Telco hardware provider Tellabs said it would buy rival network gear maker Advanced Fibre Communications in a deal valued at $1.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2004, lines up two suppliers of network access and transport and positions the company for upgrading networks. During a […]

A day after PeopleSoft unveiled its newest CRM and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance applications, rivals Siebel Systems and Vignette have announced their own product refreshes. Siebel updated its Siebel 7 CRM product line, rolling out Siebel Communications version 7.7. The first Siebel 7 product was released in 2001. Siebel Communications 7.7 is geared for the communications service […]

In a move it said will expand customer choice, Sun said it will open its storage clustering program to accommodate outside vendors. The company said its Sun Cluster Open Storage Program will now offer support for non-Sun storage arrays including third-party storage devices from storage heavies like EMC, IBM, and Network Appliance . The collaboration […]

Looking for a bit of the luck of the Irish, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel is adding a bit of its own green to its holdings in Ireland. The chipmaking giant said is investing $2 billion into extended manufacturing facilities at its Fab 24-2 plant to enable 65-nanometer process technology . Intel invested $2 billion in […]