Sean Michael Kerner

In April of 2006, U.S. based Lucent merged with France’s Alcatel in a merger that created the telecom giant. Little did the company know back then that it would take until now to actually turn a profit. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 and full year results Friday morning. For the fourth quarter, […]

From the ‘Why Are You Using Anything Else?’ files: As a long time user of OpenOffice.org, it really is just thrilling to see the innovation present in LibreOffice 3.5, which was officially released today. As a writer, this release has at least one update which quite literally will change the way I work, (hopefully for […]

From the ‘Rapid Bug Fix’ files: The open source Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser is the first of a new era for Firefox. Firefox 10 is an ESR (Extended Support Release), with at least 42 weeks of support. In contrast with Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle new non-ESR releases are out every six weeks. Barely […]

From ‘Linux HR’ files: A new study set to be released by career website Dice.com and the Linux Foundation paints a very rosy picture of the Linux job market. Now the fact that the Linux Foundation is involved in this study means that it could potentially be seen as self-serving (but hey what PR isn’t), […]

“No big surprises, which is just how I like it.” Linus Torvalds announcing the Linux 3.3 rc3 kernel release (LKML)   “The bottom line for Cisco is simple: innovation, speed and agility are in. Costs and complexity are out.” Cisco CEO John Chambers during his company’s second quarter earnings call explaining how the company has […]

Google is out with its first major stable Chrome browser release of 2012. The Chrome 17 browser extends security for users by offering new malware scanning capabilities and patches for at least 20 security vulnerabilities. Chrome 17 now scans browser downloads to search for malicious executable files. The executable scanning capabilitiy is an extension of […]

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) is having a really good start to 2012. The networking giant reported second quarter financial earnings late Wednesday that surpassed their own expectations. For the second quarter of 2012, Cisco reported revenues of $11.5 billion which is an 11 percent year-over-year increase. The revenue growth exceeded Cisco’s own guidance of seven to […]

At the heart of Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) Universal Access solution is the new ACX series router series, which sit at the access layer of a network helping to improve connectivity for both wireless and wireline users. The ACX series router has all the capabilities to support applications from a cell tower, as well as aggregating […]

Adobe’s Flash Player plugin is among the most attacked pieces of software on the Internet today. While Adobe rapidly moves to fix urgent flaws as they emerge, they have also been moving towards a sandboxing approach that mitigates the risk of any potential flaws in Flash. After first appearing in Google’s Chrome browser, the Flash […]

From the ‘Security by Obscurity’ files: Over the last several weeks, the saga of Symantec’s pcAnywhere source code ‘leak’ has been all over the tech media. Apparently the source code was stolen (or otherwise inappropriately appropriated) and has now illegally been made public on bittorrent. The ‘funny’ part of this whole saga for me, is […]

The open source nginx web server has been gaining in popularity in recent months. According to at least one survey, nginx is now in fact the second most popular web server used for active domains. The commercial entity behind nginx is now hoping to further advance their footprint with new commercial support offerings. “We are […]

VMware (NYSE:VMW) is well known in the industry for its dominance in enterprise virtualization. VMware is now well positioned to dominate the cloud as well with its rapidly expanding vCloud programs and a new solution that will get those clouds provisioned quicker. According to VMware, there are now 90 service providers and data center partners […]