Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘No More Beta 12s‘ files: We’ve known for months that Mozilla was planning on moving to a more aggressive release cycle. Now Mozilla has posted a draft of how that release cycle might look. Instead of having the nightly builds, then alpha, beta and release milestones – Mozilla is looking to have : […]

From the ‘This is Not KDE 4’ files: For most of my life as Linux desktop user, I ran KDE. Then along came KDE 4 and I freaked out and migrated to GNOME. GNOME 3 — officially released today is a similar kind of ‘big break’ for the GNOME project, but it’s not in my […]

While the term “mesh” is also used in the wireless networking industry, the Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) mesh is not related. “Here we use the word mesh as it’s more related to the mathematical concept of a fully connected graph as opposed to anything to do with the wireless portfolio,” Cliff Grossner, director of product marketing, networking […]

For at least the last five years, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been working on safe browsing technologies for web browsers. Google’s Safe Browsing is built into Firefox as well as Google’s own Chrome browser. Now with the dev-channel release of Chrome 12, Google is taking safe browsing to the next level. Though the safe browsing feature […]

Linux fans and developers are gathering this week at the Linux Collaboration Summit in San Francisco. Ahead of the event, InternetNews.com got some insight from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin on the future of Linux. In 2011, Linux celebrates it’s 20th birthday, but where will Linux be in 20 years? “Linux will become the […]

According to Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Linux is now moving beyond just being a server operating system.In Zemlin’s view, Linux has become the fabric of modern computing. In an effort to help nurture the continued growth of Linux, the Linux Foundation today announced the formation of a High Availability Linux […]

Networking vendor Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD)is updating its Whitewater cloud storage acceleration product portfolio with the new Whitewater OS 1.1. The primary different between Whitewater OS 1.1 and the initial 1.0 version is expanded support for third party storage systems. When Whitewater first launched, there was support for Symantec NetBackup, EMC Atmos and IBM’s Tivoli Storage […]

Email marketing vendor Epsilon has publicly disclosed that its systems have been breached, exposing customer names and email addresses. So far, Epsilon has not disclosed any additional details about the cause of the breach, though they note that a full investigation is underway. In general terms, there are a number of things that organizations and […]

The United States Department of Justice has reached a settlement with telecommunication vendor Verizon over alleged overbilling. The overcharging allegations are specifically against Verizon and its MCI Communication subsidiary for the FTS2001 contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA). Those contracts include voice and data communications services across the U.S. government. The settlement will see […]

From the ‘Experimental API‘ files: Google Chrome 11 is now in Beta and with it is coming two new interesting experimental APIs. The Web Navigation and Proxy Extension APIs are both for extension developers and could help to enable a new generation of capabilities for extension developers on Chrome. “The Web Navigation Extension API allows […]