Sean Michael Kerner

Apple Founder Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday leaving behind a tech legacy of innovation and inspiration. Those who knew him best, those that learned from him and those that competed with him have been lavishing accolades and praise in the hours since the announcement of his passing. As a testament to the tremendous impact […]

From the ‘Missed Opportunities‘ files: Every six months or so, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth comes up with some kind of wacky animal name for the next version of Ubuntu. The upcoming release is the Oneiric Ocelot due out on Monday, meaning the next release should start with the letter ‘P’. It had to be […]

One item that is under discussion for Java 8 is something called Project Nashorn. “Nashorn is a new implementation of JavaScript built from the ground up to leverage the JVM and the invoke dynamic,” Reinhold said. “Our goal is to leverage it and come up with a really good JavaScript implementation that is well integrated […]

The JRuby on Engine Yard cloud deployment also marks the debut of the Trinidad Java on Ruby application server. Trinidad is a packaged version of the Apache Tomcat 7 Java middleware server. “Trinidad allows you to use an entire Tomcat stack as if it was just a command line,” Dr. Nic Williams VP of technology […]

Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the Oracle OpenWorld conference with the announcement of the new Exalytics appliance. Exalytics is an in-memory database appliance that leverages parallelism and DRAM to accelerate business intelligence (BI) queries. “Everything runs faster if you keep it in DRAM, […]

Jaspersoft is expanding its business intelligence software for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The Jaspersoft 4.2 release also provides an open source software development kit to help build mobile BI apps. “The open source mobile SDK is for embedded apps,” Jim Bell, chief marketing officer at JasperSoft, told InternetNews.com. “We know that we won’t be able […]

Former NASA cloud architect, Joshua McKenty is now working for his own startup called Piston Cloud, and this week he announced a new OpenStack based distribution called Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS). The pentOS approach aims to combine ease of deployment with security. “This is turn-key OpenStack,” McKenty told InternetNews.com. “We don’t even require you to […]

From the ‘What a Relief’ files: After being offline for just over a month, kernel.org is up and running today. Late Monday, Greg Kroah-Hartman noted that the git.kernel.org site had been restored, and was the place he put the new Linux 3.0.4 kernel. I personally wasn’t able to get to the git.kernel.org site immediately (new […]

Networking can be a complicated and messy business at times. In an effort to help reduce complexity, Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) is rolling out a new portfolio of networking gear under the branding ‘Simply Connected.’ The new Simply Connected portfolio includes EX switches as well as wireless LAN controller and mobile security updates. The overall theme […]

“The primary means that people connect to the network is shifting from wired to wireless.” Alex Gray, senior vice president and general manager of Juniper’s campus and branch business unit, explaining his company’s new Simply Connected networking portfolio (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “This is a really faster computer ladies and gentlemen.” Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle introducing […]

Mozilla is patching it’s Firefox Web browser for at least 10 vulnerabilities, seven of which are rated as being “critical.” Firefox 7 was released on Tuesday offering users the promised of improved perfomance and better memory usage. On the security front, the Firefox 7 release provides a critical fix for what Mozilla describes as, “Miscellaneous […]

A new mobile Linux project is starting to take shape that combines the efforts of the LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation. The new Tizen project is set to be hosted by the Linux Foundation, which has been the home of the Meego project. LiMo is home to multiple vendors, including Samsung and Panasonic. Tizen […]