Sean Michael Kerner

Mellanox reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday showing record revenue growth. For the quarter, revenue came in at $133.5 million, for a 111 percent gain over the $63.3 million in the second quarter of 2011. Mellanox develops and sells both InfiniBand and high-speed Ethernet solutions. During Mellanox’s earning call, CEO Eyal Waldman noted […]

IBM is cautiously optimistic about its growth prospects for 2012. That’s the word out of IBM’s second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings call, after market close on Wednesday. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $25.8 billion for a three percent year-over-year decline. While revenue declined, Net Income rose by 6 percent on a yearly basis […]

From the ‘More Beautiful than Apple’ files: Back in 2008, I was at OSCON when Mark Shuttleworth set out the audacious goal to make the Linux desktop more beautiful than Apple. Today, four years later, Shuttleworth returned to the OSCON stage to claim victory. In his view Ubuntu’s desktop is now better than Apple. In […]

OpenStack is set to be available on ARM for users to try out via the Trystack effort. TryStack debuted in February this year as a way for users to “try” OpenStack in a freely available hosted environment. “OpenStack was designed from the beginning to be agnostic to different technologies,” Mark Collier, VP of Marketing and […]

Intel reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday showing continued growth amid a sluggish global economy. For the quarter, Intel reported revenue of $13.5 billion, for a 4 percent year over year gain. Net Income was reported at $2.8 billion with earnings per share of $0.54. For the full fiscal 2012, Intel is now […]

For the quarter, Yahoo reported revenue of $1.2 billion, for a 1 percent year over year decline. Income from operations was reported at $55 million, a 71 percent decline from the $191 million reported for the second quarter of 2012. Earnings per Share remained unchanged, however, at $0.18. “Typically, we’d also provide guidance for the […]

Unified Communication vendor Polycom is aiming to enable users with a new developer program and a set of RESTful APIs. There are a lot of API use cases where there are databases where users want to pull data in as well as mobile deployment initiatives. Stuart Philips, sr. product manager at Polycom,detailed one such use […]

Firefox 14 is now available, a mere six weeks after Firefox 13 debuted. Among the key areas of improvement in Firefox 14 is security by way of a number of new features. At the top of the list for Firefox 14 security features is secured Google search. Now by default, Firefox will access Google search […]

Google has spent years securing the core of its Chrome browser, and the company is now in the process of taking the additional step of securing the browser extensions. Extensions are third-party software modules that provide additional functionality to the browser. For the first 20 stable releases of Google Chrome, any user could choose to […]

VeriSign’s first quarter 2011 Domain Name Information Brief (DNIB) reports that there are now just over 233 million registered domains on the Internet today, represent growth of 3.3 percent on a sequential basis over the fourth quarter of 2011. Demand for new domains was particularly strong among Country Code (ccTLD) domains. There are now 94.9 […]

Intel is taking another step forward toward scaling up for the needs of supercomputing infrastructure. The chipmaker has acquired open source startup Whamcloud. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Whamcloud is the leading proponent of the open source Lustre parallel distributed filesystem, which is widely used in supercomputing infrastructure. “The Whamcloud acquisition […]

Can you get wired performance from a wireless network? That’s the goal that Shane Buckley, the new CEO of Xirrus has set out to prove. In an interview with InternetNews, Buckley said that in his view, wireless networking is the most interesting segment of the network world today. It’s a sentiment that is backed by […]