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Updating Arrives (Silently) in Firefox 12
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published April 25, 2012
New updating mechanism debuts for open source web browser.
Microsoft April Patch Tuesday Tackles Core Windows Flaw
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published April 11, 2012
April's Patch Tuesday update delivers six bulletins -- including a critical fix for a core flaw that affects a long list of Microsoft applications.
Google Chrome 18 Fixes Flash and Canvas2D
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published April 9, 2012
Latest browser update includes a Flash fix that no other platform will receive.
The State of Linux Wireless. Is it better yet?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published April 5, 2012
From the 'Wireless Linux' files.
Linux Kernel Devs: Fix Your Changelogs!
By Sean Michael Kerner | Developer Article Published April 5, 2012
Linux kernel development is a collaborative exercise, and developers have their fair share of pet peeves
Google Chrome 18 Fixes Flaws, Acclerates HTML5 Canvas
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published April 2, 2012
HTML5 technology gets a speed boost in the search giant's newest browser release.
BlackBerry Maker Re-Organizing for Enterprise Mobility Focus
By Sean Michael Kerner | Mobility Article Published April 2, 2012
Research In Motion Limited (RIM), announced its full year fiscal 2012 financial results last week and the news is not good.
Puppet Enterprise 2.5 Extends Beyond Configuration
By Sean Michael Kerner | IT Management Article Published March 30, 2012
In recent years, the open source Puppet configuration management and automation tool has been widely used by an ever-increasing base of users, big and small.
Red Hat Takes Linux from Free to Over $1 Billion
By Sean Michael Kerner | IT Management Article Published March 30, 2012
Linux vendor hits a major revenue milestone, even as company CEO claims there's still a lot more that can and will be done.
Will Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) Revolutionize Access?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Networking Article Published March 29, 2012
New research effort from Alcatel-Lucent has the potential to change the power cost of fibre deployment.
Boundary Big Data Monitoring in the Cloud
By Sean Michael Kerner | Software Article Published March 28, 2012
You've got Big Data apps, you need to monitor them from end to end, what do you do?
Cisco Expands Jabber for iPad, Grows Telepresense with Tandberg Tech
By Sean Michael Kerner | Networking Article Published March 28, 2012
Collaboration solutions for both mobile and on-premise users get a boost from Cisco.
Zeus Botnet Servers Taken Down by Microsoft and U.S. Law Enforcement
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published March 27, 2012
Has the mighty Zeus botnet been humbled?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Gets Certified for Oracle Database
By Sean Michael Kerner | Software Article Published March 26, 2012
Over a year after Oracle released its own flagship Linux release, its namesake database is finally certified to run on it.
Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week
By Sean Michael Kerner | IT Management Article Published March 23, 2012
Passion, Hactivism and GCC
GCC 4.7 Compiles Open Source History
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published March 23, 2012
From the 'Only Compiler That Matters' files:
Git PHP. RIP Subversion
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published March 23, 2012
WLAN is the Growth Engine of Enterprise Networking
By Sean Michael Kerner | Networking Article Published March 23, 2012
Wireless revenues hit an all time high as enterprise users go mobile.
Verizon Data Breach Report: Beware Hactivism
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published March 23, 2012
Victims know about the attacks before hand, but are still unable to prevent them
Drupal Open Source is Built on Passion (and soon Symfony)
By Sean Michael Kerner | Developer Article Published March 22, 2012
How do you build one of the world's most popular open source content management systems?
Oracle Fusion Lays a Path to the Cloud and Profits
By Sean Michael Kerner | IT Management Article Published March 22, 2012
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says moving applications to the cloud isn't an all-or-nothing proposition for Oracle. He also says the competition, notably SAP and Salesforce.com, isn't offering the right cloud model.
What Follows a Fedora Linux Miracle ?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published March 21, 2012
From the 'Miracle Continues' files:
Cisco Expands Identity and Management for BYOD
By Sean Michael Kerner | Networking Article Published March 21, 2012
With enhancements to Identity Service Engine and Prime, Cisco is bringing wired and wireless access management together in an effort deliver a better BYOD world.
Malicious Attacks are more Costly than Negligence
By Sean Michael Kerner | Security Article Published March 21, 2012
The financial cost of lost and stolen data is declining overall -- but malicious attacks remain more expensive than breaches caused by negligence.
Linux 3.3 Kernel Restores Android, Boosts Network Virtualization
By Sean Michael Kerner | Developer Article Published March 20, 2012
New Linux kernel release is out, bringing Android back into the fold after a two-year absence.
