Sean Michael Kerner

The Nintendo Wii. If you don’t’ have one yet, it’s likely on your Black Friday/Cyber Monday Christmas shopping list. The Wii has been flying off store shelves since it debuted a year ago, challenging conventional notions of technological innovation. Not only is Nintendo’s Wii a consumer-electronics success story, it may well also serve as a […]

Networking giant Cisco continues to lead the booming global router and switch market by a wide margin, although rivals Juniper and Nortel are making inroads, according to a new study. In its latest report, Synergy Research Group found that third-quarter 2007 revenues for routers totaled just over $3.3 billion — a 21 percent gain over […]

Apple’s OS X Leopard, the company’s latest operating system, has received the first update of its young life. But it also hit a milestone, having been blessed as a Unix operating system. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that overseas usage of the Unix name and compliance against Unix specifications, announced that Leopard […]

Five months after being acquired by IBM, Watchfire is out with its latest release of its security scanning product AppScan. With the release, Watchfire will try to prove that it can integrate with IBM’s Rational product line and that it can also still continue to stand on its own. “Application security needs to be part […]

Linux vendor Red Hat unveiled a trio of developments today as part of a broad initiative that it hopes will make its operating system pervasive across the enterprise landscape. As part of the strategy, Red Hat is making Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) available in an on-demand form, thanks to a deal with Amazon’s Elastic […]

At the heart of Cisco’s dominance of the enterprise networking landscape is the Cisco Catalyst switch. As the name implies, Catalyst switches enable traffic to flow across an enterprise as part of the Cisco Campus Communications Fabric. Now the Campus Communications Fabric is about to get faster, thanks to a set of new features that […]

Open source software might make it simpler for employees to download and install an application without first having to check that it meets with the company’s approval and governance policy. But that freedom also means that application usage in the enterprise can become something of an untamed, unregulated Wild West. Fortunately, there’s a new sheriff […]

You can now buy a Linux PC at Wal-Mart! Woo hoo! The only problem is that it’s really more of a Google network PC that could easily be run on hardware that costs significantly less than $199. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a big fan of the world’s largest retailer. I shop at Wal-Mart […]

When it comes to big enterprise IT deployments in the U.S., there is no enterprise bigger than the federal government itself. Linux vendor Red Hat is hoping for a larger portion of the government’s multi-billion dollar IT spending with its widest-ever array of security certifications, thanks to assistance from HP. HP Thursday released new Multi-Level […]

Both the Web 2.0 and the SaaS (define) paradigms are almost always dependent on one common denominator: the Web browser. It is from the browser that Web-based applications are accessed and run. Yet the browser model, with its forward, back and other navigational toolbars, often add bloat and confuse Web-based applications. Mozilla thinks it may […]