Sean Michael Kerner

Can video delivered over a wireless networking connection be as good as video coming from a wired network? That’s the challenge that networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) now is trying solve with new technology called VideoStream. With VideoStream Cisco is aiming to enable enterprises to deliver HD quality video to multiple wireless end points. VideoStream is […]

Like many other sectors of the economy, the market for unified communications in 2009 was not a great one, though the future is looking bright. Infonetics Research has released a new report which forecasts worldwide revenues for the unified communication market will drop by four percent in 2009, but will rise by more than 100 […]

Though New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are often thought of as fast-moving cities, none of them are among the top ten fastest cities in America when it comes to broadband. Instead, if you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed, you’ll have to move to the state […]

In many enterprises today, social networking services and tools — including Facebook and Twitter — are used by employees, though often without any oversight from IT. Now networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is becoming the latest to warn that the lack of IT involvement poses problems that enterprises need to address. Cisco’s analysis comes as […]

Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is out today with a new release of its namesake platform, adding new features and a new enterprise-specific edition. Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile told InternetNews.com that there are more than 25 feature enhancements in Jaspersoft 3.7, such as expanded in-memory analysis capabilities, including new methods of multidimensional data analysis. […]

After spending $350 million and two years of effort, Yahoo officially announced yesterday that it was selling its open source Zimbra e-mail collaboration unit to VMware. So why the change of heart? In conversation with InternetNews.com, top executives from Zimbra commented on their time at Yahoo and why a parting became necessary. While having an […]

Modern telecommunications networks globally are responsible for the consumption of some 300 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, according to Alcatel-Lucent. Reducing the carbon footprint of telecom networks is the goal of Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE:ALU) new Green Touch effort which includes a consortium of academic, industry and government partners. The Green Touch effort is […]

Open source has dramatically reshaped the software development landscape. Yet is it enough to help propel the Web itself forward for the next decade? That’s what Mozilla believes. After having been synonymous with open source for over a decade, thanks to its efforts behind the popular Firefox Web browser, Mozilla is now creating a new […]

Remember the Y2K bug? Ten years after the original scare leading up to the year 2000, IT systems are once again facing problems due to the changing of the calendar year. Now, the issues are stemming from the rollover to 2010 — or Y2K10, as it’s being termed. There are reports out of Germany that […]

For some enterprise Java users, Java EE is not the right solution for their middleware server — Apache Tomcat is. Tomcat is a widely deployed open source Java JSP and servlet container that has recently gained commercial support by way of several vendors. One of the commercial implementations of Tomcat comes from software vendor MuleSoft […]