Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO -- The fight for free culture will be more difficult than the fight for free software, said Lawrence Lessig, founder of the Creative Commons

No one vendor will rule the Linux virtualization roost. VMware, Xen, IBM and Red Hat are collaborating on a "para-virtualization" interface for the Linux

For years, pundits have proclaimed that the Linux Desktop is coming, and yet it was still lacking in some of the critical collaboration apps that

LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft spent a whole day here at the Black Hat conference extolling the security enhancements in its upcoming Vista operating system.

LAS VEGAS -- Think cyber criminals are unorganized? Think again. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICC) is at the nexus of the fight on Internet

Wind River is taking a page from its competitor's playbook. The company is incorporating real-time patches into its latest Wind River Linux releases a la

Metro Ethernet is not just a North American or European phenomenon. Asia's got it, too, and it's hitting big. According to a recent report from Yankee

Nine months after it acquired Funk Software for $122 million, Juniper Networks (Quote, Chart) is rolling out network access control (NAC) security

Oracle's July Critical Patch Update (CPU) is now out with fixes for a whopping 65 bugs. Security firm Secunia rated the aggregate of the vulnerabilities

Cisco Systems is hoping to increase its lead in the Network Admission Control space (NAC) with the rollout of its NAC 4.0 appliance. The new technology

Make no mistake about it, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) (define) are still big business. A new report from Infonetics Research pegs the value of the VPN

IBM (Quote, Chart) has been a huge Linux backer since 1998. Yet despite its love of the penguin, Big Blue's Lotus Notes product has never fully supported