Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Open Media Now!’ files: Apple isn’t the only group that has trouble with Adobe’s Flash. The open source community, and specifically the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have issues too, though the FSF’s issues are around openness. I first wrote about Gnash back in 2006, when the FSF helped to get the effort going. […]

From the ‘Not Far Now‘ files: Late Friday, Mozilla issued what is likely the last development cycle update for Firefox 4. Firefox 4 Release Candidate 2 (RC 2) has the shortest bug list of any release in the entire Firefox 4 development cycle to date. The big fix is the blacklisting of a number of […]

After over a decade of debate and delay, the Internet finally has its own designated ‘red-light’ zone, with the .XXX top level domain (TLD). ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the application of the ICM Registry to operate .XXX during a meeting held in San Francisco. ICANN had rejected previous calls for […]

There is a new top end for consumer grade external hard drives. Western Digital (WD) has announced a new 6 Terabyte (TB) system called the My Book Studio Edition II. The new platform supports RAID 1, to provide data mirroring across the two drives. “For the consumer, this is the largest,” a WD spokesperson told […]

The landscape of wireless vendors in the U.S. is about to get smaller as AT&T is set to get even bigger. AT&T (NYSE:T) is set to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom in a deal valued at $39 billion. AT&T will be paying $25 billion in cash with the remainder paid in AT&T stock to Deutsche […]

From the ‘Memory Rulez‘ files: One of the items that bugged many people about Firefox 4, until very recently, was its use of memory. That is, Firefox 4 (to put it politely) was a memory hog. That’s no longer the case as the browser is set to exit development and become generally available on March […]

Do you know what is running on your network? Technology from Vineyard Networks, could help you out. Vineyard’s technology is used by network gateway vendors to identify and classify application traffic on a network. The company partners with multiple third party vendors do deliver their solution which also provide a reporting dashboard for applications. “What […]

The purpose of two-factor authentication products is to provide a secondary layer of defense. What happens though when the infrastructure supporting that defense is breached? This week RSA, the security division of EMC publicly disclosed that its SecurID two-factor authentication systems had been breached by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). RSA has tried to calm […]

“The Prime Minister’s Office of Japan has launched an English twitter account from now on.” The Prime Minister of Japan joins Twitter to help communicate to the world about the tragedy that has devastated his country(Twitter). “On balance, I would guess this design change results in a modest increase in broken screens and at times […]