Sean Michael Kerner

It turns out that 10 seconds isn’t long enough of a window to give unresponsive plugins to run before shutting them down. Mozilla tried that with a recent update to its Firefox browser, but users — particularly those with older computers — complained. So now, with the release of Firefox 3.6.6, Mozilla has extended the […]

SSL certificates are a popular means of securing Web transactions. But is the technology always being implemented correctly? As eSecurityPlanet reports, SSL certificates can be generated for any domain name. It’s also considered to be a best practice that the name on the SSL certificate matches the name of the domain on which the SSL […]

Over the seven years of the Eclipse Foundation’s regular release cycle, PHP has become an increasingly central focus of the projects, demonstrated most recently with the release of PHP Developer Tools 2.2. Through it all, the multi-vendor organization has maintained a steady cadence of releases. So what keeps the Eclipse Foundation rolling along, and how […]

The Eclipse Foundation started as an alternative Java effort to Sun Microsystems. Even its name was meant as a dig at Sun (an eclipse blocks out the sun). But in time, it put the joke behind it and grew to expand other open source efforts. One of them is the PHP scripting language used as […]

Search giant Google continues rolling out the enhancements to its Chrome browser, which went to a stable release just last month. Since then, it’s released two security update, the second of which debuted today and bumps Chrome to version 5.0.375.86. While the Chrome 5.0.375.86 update addresses several security holes, it also marks an important change […]

Portal technology has been around for years as a way of aggregating content from disparate sources. It’s a market that is now in the process of evolution as enterprise vendors begin to take a broader view of what a portal should really be about. As DevX reports, JBoss, Red Hat’s middleware division, is updating its […]

Memcached has already won favor among the database crowd for its ability to cache and accelerate data. Now NorthScale, a commercial sponsor of the open source technology, is extending memcached to the NoSQL database movement with Membase, a project angling to offer low-latency scalable system for dynamic Web apps. Database Journal has the details. The […]

Red Hat is pressing ahead with its cloud and virtualization services, unveiling a new initiative called Cloud Foundations that will offer training, support and a reference architecture to make new deployments easier for its customers. Additionally, Red Hat is expanding its partnership with Cisco, with support for KVM on the networking giant’s unified computing system. […]

From the ‘Business Partners‘ files: Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren’t supposed to get along right? But they do, and apparently Microsoft and Red Hat are now getting along very well too. During a Q&A session during Red Hat’s Analyst Day this week, Red Hat revealed that its relationship with Microsoft isn’t as […]

Managing and measuring security threats across the sprawling assets of an enterprise can be a daunting task. But Core Security thinks it has a solution. With the rollout of its Core Insight Enterprise platform, Core Security is aiming to give enterprises a window into the security status of their physical and virtual systems. Server Watch […]

The task of securing the Internet from a major DNS flaw will be a long one, but at least one step forward can be noted: the .Org domain, popular with non-profit groups and non-business entities, has signed on for DNSSEC protection, the first top-level domain to do so. This will help protect those domains from […]

Red Hat is off to a strong start in fiscal 2011, posting earnings well ahead of the previous year and meeting analysts’ expectations. How did the enterprise Linux vendor do it? Strong demand for all segments of its product portfolio, according to CEO Jim Whitehurst. Addressing analysts, Whitehurst touted an eight-figure deal Red Hat had […]