Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Continuous Innovation‘ files: The Document Foundation continues to stick to its commitment of updating LibreOffice at a rapid pace. Barely a month after LibreOffice 3.3.1 was released, LibreOffice 3.3.2 is now available. This is a stability and bug fix release as well as translation updates. Alongside the release, The Document Foundation is continuing […]

From the ‘Dragon Dictation‘ files: Not content to let Mozilla developers have their day in the sun with the big Firefox 4 release, Google has upped the ante in the browser wars with Chrome 11 Beta. While many of the recent Chrome releases have primarily focused on performance gains, Chrome 11 offers users a feature […]

Adobe(NASDAQ:ADBE) is starting 2011 with record revenues as new products and services are set to debut over the course of the year. Adobe’s CEO also hinted at a future subscription based offering that could shift the company away from the current shrink-wrapped model of boxed software sales. Adobe’s leadership however tempered expectations for the company’s […]

From the ‘What Took So Long?‘ files: When I develop websites, I rely on Google’s Page Speed (and to a lesser extent Yahoo’s Y!slow) add-ons to help improve pages. Though Page Speed is a Google tool, the vast majority of users use it on Firefox, That could soon change as Google has finally made Page […]

The Eclipse IDE is a widely used desktop based development tool. The Eclipse Foundation is now moving beyond its desktop roots with the new Orion, browser-based development environment. As part of the Orion development, Eclipse is hosting a managed implementation of Orion called OrionHub. Developers can try out Orion by way of the OrionHub without […]

From the ‘Does IT Work?‘ files: Oracle has been building out the next generation version of its Solaris UNIX platform ever since it acquired Sun last year. Solaris 11 is available as a developer preview now in something called Solaris 11 Express which came out in November. Now Oracle is ramping up the Solaris 11 […]

Back in May of 2010, Mozilla developers first publicly detailed their plans for Firefox 4. Those plans have now come to fruition with the release of Firefox 4 today. Firefox 4 introduces a new user interface to the open source browser. Tabs are now on top and buttons have been re-arranged. Tabs can now also […]

One week after first disclosing that its Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player were at risk, Adobe has patched its platforms. The flaw could have enabled an attacker to create a malicious .swf Flash file which could have allowed an attacker to take control of a user’s system. The new Adobe Flash Player 10.2.153.1 which […]

On the same day that Apple’s OS X was set to come under hacker scrutiny at the pwn2own event last week, Apple issued a major security update. That update however wasn’t enough to stop security researchers from exploiting Apple’s operating system. Now a week later, Apple is out with OS X 10.6.7, fixing flaws exposed […]

Does Google’s Android infringe on Microsoft’s patents? Microsoft today took legal action against Barnes & Noble, Inc. as well as its device manufacturer partners, Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. and Inventec Corporation. At issue is alleged patent infringement by the Barnes and Noble e-reader that is powered by Google’s Android operating system. “The Android platform infringes […]

Web applications come under attack every day from malware that runs on end-user PCs. A new solution from security vendor Trusteer aims to help protect websites from malware infected users, without the need for the end-users to install additional security software. The Trusteer Pinpoint solution runs on the web application server and is able to […]