Sean Michael Kerner

“The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry.” AT&T’s corporate statement after scuttling a $39 Billion merger deal with T-Mobile (EnterpriseMobileToday) “I would bet on us to keep those earnings growing and protected.” Oracle President and CFO […]

From the ‘How Much is an Open Source Browser Worth?’ files: There is a report out that claims that the renewed Google Mozilla deal is worth $300 Million per year. WHAT? Yup I did a double take when I saw that figure too. Sure I’m a believer in Mozilla, but $300 million sure does seem […]

From the ‘RIP MATE’ files: Lots of people didn’t (and still don’t) like GNOME 3, which has helped the popularity of Linux Mint. Linux Mint has not adopted the new interface instead going their own route with the MATE fork and the MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extensions). Apparently that’s not enough and now Mint Founder […]

Insecure code often sits as the root cause for application vulnerabilities and exploitation. What if you could prevent that insecure code from ever being a risk? In the future, it just might be possible to wrap insecure code with protection that will mitigate risk and help prevent exploitation. That’s the goal of a research effort […]

Oracle is continuing to grow both its software and its hardware business, though not quite as much as it had originally forecast. Oracle (ORCL: NASDAQ) reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings after the close of market on Tuesday. Revenues came in at $8.8 billion for a 2 percent year-over-year gain. The company reported Non-GAAP Earnings […]

From the ‘Rapid Releases Aren’t Good For Everyone’ files: Mozilla faced its fair share of criticism this year when they moved to the rapid release cycle. Enterprises argued that they couldn’t update as fast as Firefox is being released, with new browsers out every six weeks. As it turns out, Linux vendor Red Hat isn’t […]

From the “Open Source Project That Could’ files: CentOS is a project that many people (myself included) rely on as a way to get all the goodness of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, without the cost (or support – but that’s another story). That’s probably why there was a lot of concern when it took CentOS […]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) filed a law suit against Palo Alto Networks this week with a complaint of patent infringement. According to Juniper’s complaint, at issue are six patents including: U.S. Patents #8,077,723 ; 7,779,459; 7,650,634; 7,302,700; 7,093,280 and 6,772,346. “The innovations of these patents are, among other things, important for efficiently protecting computer networks from […]

The final Firefox release of 2011 is being released today, providing users with a faster experience on desktops, smartphones and tablets. Mozilla also used the occasion to officially announce that they have renewed a deal with Google for search revenues. Mozilla derives the majority of its revenues from a multi-year search deal with Google that […]

For the quarter, Red Hat reported revenue of $290 million, which is a 23 percent year-over-year gain. Net income hit $38.2 million or $0.19 per share, up from $26 million or $0.13 per share last year. Moving forward, Red Hat provided fourth-quarter guidance for revenue to be in the range of approximately $289 million to […]

AT&T will not be acquiring T-Mobile after all. The $39 billion deal was originally announced back in March and was initially expect to close within 12 months. From the outset, the deal faced opposition from other carriers including Sprint, though the toughest hurdle turned out to be the U.S. Government, by way of the FCC […]

Is the cloud the right place to power your database driven apps? Startup Xeround certainly thinks so, and has convinced its investors of that too. To date, Xeround has raised $38.8 million in three rounds of funding, the most recent a C series last week for $9.3 million. Xeround develops a cloud database-as-a-service technology that […]