Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is a supporter of networking standards. Standards alone however are not enough, according to Cisco. Cisco is now taking aim at the ‘good enough’ mentality when it comes to networking. Executives from Cisco stressed that the modern demands of video and collaboration cannot be effectively met by the ‘good enough’ approach. Cisco’s view […]

Yahoo is selling off its delicious social bookmarking site, after nearly five years of ownership. Technology startup AVOS, founded by YouTube founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is acquiring delicious for an undisclosed sum from Yahoo. Hurley and Chen sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in October of 2006. “We spoke with numerous parties […]

Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed the Natty Narwhal was officially released today. The new Linux release includes the Unity desktop which delivers a different way for users to access their applications and content. The shift to Unity is a big one and it’s one of the key attributes of the release that Canonical, the lead sponsor behind […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now out with yet another new browser release. Chrome 11.0.696.57 is Google’s third major browser release of 2011, following the Chrome 9 and 10 releases earlier in the year. Chrome 11 supports the HTML5 speech input API, enabling the browsing to support voice interactions. One of the ways that the new voice […]

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) wants to make it easier to use Facebook safely. ZoneAlarm SocialGuard is a software solution that enables people to identify social networking risks on Facebook. SocialGuard has its own algorithm which examines a Facebook user’s circle of friends. When a new request comes in, SocialGuard can determine if the request […]

Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) life as a publicly traded independent company, ends today. The software and Linux operating system vendor has closed the deal which will see the company acquired by privately-held Attachmate for $2.2 billion. The deal was first announced in November and has had to overcome a key patent hurdle. The Attachmate deal was contingent […]

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has had a mixed bag of success with open source. As part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle inherited a long list of open source projects. Some of them, like OpenOffice and OpenSolaris have met with community opposition that have led to forks. In the case of OpenOffice, the LibreOffice fork has […]

According to Akamai’s (NASDAQ:AKAM) Fourth Quarter 2010 State of the Internet report, attack traffic flowing out of Russia represented 10 percent of all observed global attack traffic. In contrast, the U.S accounted for 7.3 percent of attack traffic. While Akamai sees the attack traffic coming from a specific country, there is the possibility that there […]

From the ‘Summer School‘ files:  I’ve been writing about the Google Summer of Code since 2005 when the program debuted. It’s a program that I’ve seen grow and excel every year since. The Summer of Code is an effort to bring students into the open source world, matching them up with mentoring open source organizations. […]

Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) is out with its Q4 2010 State of the Internet report this week. The new study reports that average broadband speeds in the U.S. were up by 9.2 percent in fourth quarter of 2010, on a year-over-year basis, hitting 5.1 Mbps. From the U.S. perspective, Akamai reported that the state of Delaware was […]

Nearly a year ago, Google announced its open source WebM project for online video, including the VP8 video codec. Google is now taking steps to secure WebM from patent attacks, in a bid to help encourage adoption. “Today we’re announcing the formation of the WebM Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative with 17 founding members,” Matt Frost […]