Sean Michael Kerner

The RFID Tag Market is up for grabs, even as working groups hammer out protocols for equipment manufacturers, according to the latest Quarterly RFID report from ABI Research. However, evolving and not yet ratified standards that surround the RFID tag protocol are making progress, which has players moving into position for a piece of the […]

In a show of force and determinism, PeopleSoft made a barrage of announcements at its Las Vegas Leadership Summit, touching on virtually all aspects of its business. For starters, the company launched the latest version of PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM versions 8.9, new Demand Driven database packages for the manufacturing sector, next generation Sarbanes-Oxley compliance packages […]

Supercomputer maker Cray finalized a deal with the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) for a five year $43.2 million contract, the company said Tuesday. KMA is a leading weather research and forecasting center and together with Cray now plans to establish an Earth System Research Center for advanced atmospheric modeling in the East Asia Pacific region. […]

In one of the most highly anticipated Linux Distribution releases in years, Red Hat’s Fedora Project launched its Fedora Core 2 (FC2), the company said. “This release marks a great step forward,” Red Hat spokesperson Leigh Day told internetnews.com. “It’s based on the latest technology, the 2.6 kernel and also includes SELinux, as well many […]

These days, people change locations, jobs and email addresses more often than ever. Plaxo’s contact management application aims to help by keeping contacts connected and accurately synchronized. At Yahoo! Analyst Day, Plaxo announced that it will integrate Yahoo! Search into the upcoming Plaxo 2.0, which itself integrates into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. With the […]

TORONTO — In 1776, the British economist Adam Smith theorized in “The Wealth of Nations” that “invisible hand” market forces are the primary influences in a free market economy. Does the economic model of the world, as predicted by Smith over 228 years ago, apply to the modern concept of free and open source software? […]

TORONTO — In a no-holds-barred session on the final day of the Search Engine Strategies conference, representatives of the three major search technologies — Yahoo, Google and Ask Jeeves — duked it out to show which crawler-based site offers the best search technology. Despite their differences, all three said they have the same mission and […]

HP’s information technology service management (ITSM) offering got a boost today with the purchases of two firms: Dallas-based ManageOne and U.K.-based CEC Europe Service Management. Financial terms were not disclosed. Employees of both firms are expected to join HP. Broadly speaking, ITSM consultants help companies improve the quality and reduce the costs of the IT […]

TORONTO — Overture is getting serious about Canada. The paid search division of Yahoo! has partnered with pay-per-click network NetWorldMedia, Overture officials said at this week’s Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo. Under the pact, NetWorldMedia joins Overture’s “Certified Ambassador” program. The status has been bestowed on about 10 partners and is the highest level […]

TORONTO — Is it time for search engine marketers to look beyond their tried and true formats to the growing popularity of news-based searches (if they haven’t already)? The question emerged at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo here, during a pair of afternoon sessions about optimizing non-HTML content and balancing between paid and […]

TORONTO — It’s all about marketing. That’s the message from the two-day Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo that kicked off here today. Attendees can choose from tracks that offer everything from the basics of the burgeoning search marketing business to advanced technical tips. Unsurprisingly, site optimization and pay-per-click strategies are common threads in panel […]

Microsoft’s .NET Framework has won many converts since it was first released with even the open source community now appearing to embrace it. There are currently at least two open source projects that are developing implementations of the .NET Framework, the Novell Ximian-led Mono and the DotGNU project. Mono has been making the rounds with […]