Sean Michael Kerner

After three years of development and debate, there is light at the end of the tunnel for HTML5. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday announced that the “last call” date for HTML5 would occur in May of this year. The W3C also announced that testing will extend until 2014, at which point HTML5 […]

According to Cisco, mobile video demand is set to explode in the coming years, which is why the company is rolling out a new architecture called MOVE to help deliver that content. The MOVE framework includes a new mobile video delivery software solution called Mobile Videoscape that leverages multiple Cisco hardware platforms including the ASR […]

Databases are a favorite target of hackers. As the crucial warehouse of enterprises’ sensitive records, databases are under frequent attacks by SQL injections and other weapons. Oracle is trying to fight back. The firm has released Database Firewall, a new layer of security built from technology acquired through the purchase of Secerno last May. “People […]

From the ‘Will Be Missed‘ files: Mozilla’s Director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner announced this AM that he plans to leave Mozilla. For me Beltzner has been THE POINT MAN on Firefox dev stuff for the last several years. He’s been the guy I met with at the Mozilla Toronto office and he’s usually the final […]

Can IBM’s Watson supercomputer beat humans at their own game? Big Blue will begin to learn the answer this week, when the system will square off against past Jeopardy champions. And to do it, Watson is looking to the Linux operating system. Specifically, IBM’s Watson is powered by Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), a […]

The developer platforms that Apple and Google have set up for their mobile devices might get the most buzz, but Juniper is bringing the same model to its networking equipment. With the new Junos Space Software Development Kit (SDK), Juniper is offering REST APIs that developers can use to build applications that will interact with […]

The world of Web-based avatars, popularized in large measure by Second Life, could be coming to the enterprise. That’s if Avaya has its way. The firm, which acquired Nortel’s enterprise business unit in 2009, is now promoting a technology it’s calling web.alive, which offers an avatar-based collaboration service geared for the business environment. “Web.alive is […]

From the ‘Do Track‘ files: I’m a big fan of data analytics which is why back in 2009 I was excited about a new potential Firefox feature called about:me. The basic idea was that the about:me call would provide users with information about their browsing habits and usage. Originally about:me was a feature that was […]

From the ‘Open Source UI’ files: GTK 3.0 is now available, and it promises some nice advances over GTK 2.x which is the UI framework behind GNOME (and tonnes of other cross-platform open source apps the rely on it). Aside from GNOME, I personally rely on GTK for some of the open source apps that […]

Log data can be a vast resource for promoting IT security. But that’s also the problem — it’s vast. LogRhythm, a security information and event manager vendor, has deployed a new technology that aims to help businesses make sense of all that data to develop a stronger security posture. To that end, LogRhythm has unveiled […]

From the ‘Don’t Tax Us‘ files: The issue of currency repatriation is one that is a loaded one. My colleague Kenneth Corbin blogged on this yesterday, and it’s an important issue of how U.S. based companies can bring their earnings back into the U.S. without being double taxed. From the corporate perspective, one of the […]

Cisco delivered a somewhat disappointing earnings report this week, with revenues from its core switching businesses falling 7 percent, and net income tumbling 18 percent. Ask CEO John Chambers about it, and he’ll tell you that the product portfolio is simply evolving, with the established Catalyst switching platform facing pricing pressure from competitors, while Cisco […]