Sean Michael Kerner

InfiniBand is about to get a major speed boost. Mellanox (NASDAQ:MLNX) is now introducing its new SwitchX technology, delivering 56 Gbps InfiniBand. SwitchX can support up to 4 Terabits per second of total switching capacity. In terms of ports, the silicon can handle up to 36 ports of 56 Gbps InfiniBand or 36 ports of […]

Java users are used to patching Java for security updates as they become available. According to the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Java.com itself was also in need of some patching for security vulnerabilities. According to YGN, it informed Oracle of the Java.com vulnerability on April 19th. On April 23rd, Oracle replied, “Thank you for bringing […]

From the ‘Don’t Ask About PHP 6‘ files: Back in November at ZendCon, we heard the first indications of what to expect for PHP 5.4. It’s now five months later and I’m wondering what’s going on with PHP 5.4, since I personally had expected that I would be testing it by now.  So I asked […]

Patents remain a source of risk for the open source ecosystem, though the Open Invention Network (OIN) is doing its’ part to help reduce the risk. The OIN launched back in 2005 as a group tasked with acquiring patents and then licensing them back to the open source community on a royalty-free basis. OIN has […]

From the ‘Fork That Beat Oracle’ files: Now that Oracle is (apparently) putting OpenOffice.org out to pasture, all eyes are focused on LibreOffice. LibreOffice is ready and this week continued its development push forward with the release of LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 2. Even at the best of times under Sun’s ownership, we NEVER saw such […]

The new Adobe Reader 9.4.4 and Adobe Acrobat X 10.0.3 updates delivered this week , provide the final elements of the fix for flaw first disclosed on April 11th. Adobe’s Flash Player was updated on April 15th in response to the same threat. The flaws could have enabled an attacker to crash and take control […]

AMD (NYSE:AMD) reported first quarter fiscal 2011 revenues this week, as the company continues to search for a new CEO. First quarter fiscal 2011 revenues were reported at $1.61 billion, a 2 percent year-over-year increase. Net Income was reported at $510 million, which is in stark contrast with the $257 million reported for the first […]

Oracle released its April Critical Patch Update (CPU) this week, addressing 73 different vulnerabilities spread across Oracle’s product portfolio. Oracle’s namesake database gets six updates as part of the CPU. Only two of the updates are identified as flaws that could be remotely exploitable without authentication. Oracle is also providing eight updates for the Open […]

“Apple needs to safeguard the personal location information of its users to ensure that an iPhone doesn’t become an iTrack.” U.S. Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass) talking about Apple collecting user location information (Wall St. Journal). “Although we recognize that the various changes to the agreement recently made by the parties are helpful, the department will […]

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) released NetBeans 7.0 this week, updating their open source Java IDE. The NetBeans community under Oracle’s stewardship is extremely healthy with as many as 900,000 active users of NetBeans. The key focus of NetBeans 7.0 is Java SE 7 support. What Oracle has done is enabled developers to use Java 7 syntax as […]