Sean Michael Kerner

A new generation of wireless mesh products from Aruba Networks (NASDAQ:ARUN) is now hitting the market. Outdoor mesh enables wi-fi connectivity across a broad area. The new mesh products from Aruba aim to go beyond the limitations of the first generation of mesh, which wasn’t designed for the modern needs of high-bandwidth voice and video […]

Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE:TXN) has announced its intention to acquire and National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM). TI will be paying $25 per National Semiconductor share for a total purchase price of $6.5 billion. The deal is expected to close inside of the next nine months. The deal will expand TI’s analog semiconductor product portfolio. “TI’s strategy is […]

From the ‘open source #Fail’ files: Back in 2008, Mozilla announced the formation of Mozilla Messaging. It was supposed to be an effort that was going to propel Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client to the same level of adoption and interest as Firefox. It failed. Three years later, Thunderbird and Mozilla Messaging have not lived up […]

There is a gap between the security of the different open source content management system (CMS) projects. A new report from HP (NYSE:HPQ) takes a look a security risks in 2010 and found that one CMS in particular was more vulnerable than the other. “WordPress these days has very few vulnerable installs that we could […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been named as the stalking horse bidder for a portfolio of approximately 6,000 patents held by Nortel Networks. Nortel declared bankruptcy in January of 2009 and ever since has been shedding its assets. The patent sale is one of the final steps in the dissolution of Nortel. The patents include wireless, data […]

For Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the cloud isn’t about any one particular project, it’s about a combination of multiple open source projects. At the core of Red Hat’s cloud strategy is its Cloud Foundations effort which extends Red Hat’s infrastructure offerings for the cloud. “Cloud Foundations was named that for a reason,” Scott Crenshaw, […]

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is expanding its switch lineup with a new PowerConnect 7000 series of managed switches. The new switches are Dell’s own hardware and software and are not part of the OEM deal that Dell has with Juniper Networks. The 7000 series offers 24 or 48 gigabit Ethernet ports, with up to 4x10GbE modular ports […]

From the ‘It’s April 1st, But This Is No Joke‘ files: Ubuntu 11.04 aka – the Natty Narwhal is now available as a beta release. Why Ubuntu devs chose April 1st is beyond me, but rest assured this distro is no joke. For starters Natty has the uber cool Linux 2.6.38 kernel, you know the […]

In the summer of 2008, Dan Kaminsky revealed to the world, that the Internet’s DNS infrastructure was at risk. After years of effort, VeriSign this week has signed the .com Top Level Domain for DNSSEC, enabling enhanced security for over 90 million registered domains. “By reaching this critical milestone in DNSSEC deployment, Verisign and the […]

From the ‘Open Source Search‘ files: Apache Lucene is a critical Apache project used by many to integrate search features into their applications.  Solr is a search server based on the Lucene Java search library. Both project are now being updated to version 3.1 providing users with multiple improvements. For Lucene, the improvements include numerous […]