Sean Michael Kerner

Though the U.S. still trails other parts of the world in deployment of high-speed broadband, all is not lost. According to the latest State of the Internet report from content delivery player Akamai, the nation’s broadband penetration is on the rise. Akamai found that U.S. broadband connections — defined as connections at 5 megabits per […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is upping the ante in the virtualization market with the $107 million dollar cash acquisition Thursday of privately held virtualization vendor Qumranet. The acquisition brings Qumranet’s SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) under the Red Hat banner, giving the Linux vendor a claim to end-to-end platform virtualization — thanks to its existing […]

When Linux crashes, users don’t get a Blue Screen like they do on Windows. Instead, Linux generates an “oops” — a crash signature that can help developers to figure out what went wrong. The feature may have a silly name, but it’s increasingly serious business. Keeping track of the “oopses” is the duty of the […]

The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 (define) protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish. In a year-long study of 2,393 peering and backbone routers conducted by Arbor Networks, the majority of respondents (customer and peering interfaces) said IPv6 […]

Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin Source: Linux Foundation Standing at the headwaters of the ecosystem that is Linux is the Linux Foundation and its executive director Jim Zemlin. The Linux Foundation was forged out of the merger of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group in 2007 as a new group with […]

While Microsoft Windows is built by an army of the software giant’s paid engineers, Linux is written by a community of contributors. Yet joining that community isn’t as easy e-mailing a piece of code to, say, Linus Torvalds, the OS’s originator. That fact has long dogged the Linux community, supporters say, fostering a belief that […]

Linux vendor Canonical is working hard to get more software and hardware certifications for its Ubuntu Linux distribution. In its latest round of partnerships, Canonical is expanding its relationship with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Alfresco, Zimbra, Likewise, Centrify and others. Yet though Canonical is trying valiantly to show momentum in its alliances, at least two notable […]

Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it’s apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can’t scale. That’s the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures. The fight against spam has increased in traction for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) with the acquisition of vendor Postini for $625 […]

LAS VEGAS — The U.S. government is actively engaged in the fight to help protect against Internet threats and cybercrime. And speaking before a packed ballroom here at the Black Hat security conference, they made it clear they want hackers to join the effort. “The reason why we come here is we hope to attract […]

LAS VEGAS — The open source Mozilla Firefox Web browser is potentially at risk from design flaws that could allegedly let attackers take whatever they want from users’ computers. Radware Security researcher Itzik Kotler is alleging that he can exploit Mozilla Firefox, and he’s going to demonstrate how at Black Hat. Kotler’s exploit framework for […]