Sean Michael Kerner

Employees love their smartphones and corporate IT hates the security headaches they introduce. Juniper’s new push into mobile security aims to make smartphones and other mobile devices policy compliant the minute they hit the corporate network. As enterprises become increasingly mobile, the need for secure remote access on mobile devices also grows more […]

From the “Maemo, to Moblin to LiPS‘ files: There have been multiple efforts from multiple vendor groups over the last 5 years to develop a successful mobile Linux operating system. Now we’ve got another one with MeeGo that my colleague Andy Patrizio reported on yesterday. The pairing of Nokia’s Maemo with Intel’s Moblin was a […]

Even as Agile software development has grown in popularity, a recent research report found that strict adherence to its methodology isn’t the most important thing for rapid, quality software development. DevX has the details. Over the last several years, Agile software development has gained in popularity, thanks to its promises of speeding software projects with […]

A lot can happen in just a few short years. Despite its favored status among Linux players like IBM and Red Hat, the Xen hypervisor has since taken a back seat for both, as the two have become major backers behind KVM virtualization instead. What does the change mean for Xen customers of IBM’s? ServerWatch […]

OpenOffice.org this week released the newest version of its office suite. While the release doesn’t focus on breaking much new ground, the open source effort behind it is undergoing dramatic changes. What’s likely to come now that Sun Microsystems, the project’s chief backer, is now a part of Oracle? One key developer from Novell, another […]

Mozilla might have been a little over-zealous in a security warning it issued last week. As it turns out, one of the add-ons to its popular Firefox browser wasn’t carrying the malware Mozilla originally identified. Apparently a false positive was the culprit. But some of the other add-ons Mozilla identified are still on its black […]

Google has issued an update to its Chrome browser to address six security flaws, three of which it deemed highly severe. In a twist, the search giant awarded an outside security researcher $500 for calling attention to the bugs. eSecurity Planet has the story on the bugs, and what happened to the award money. Google […]

From the ‘Ditch This‘ files: Mozilla is out today with Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 as a Developer Preview. This is the first new dev milestone outside of the Firefox 3.6 release a few weeks back at the end of January. The thumbnail (image left) is a screenshot of 3.7 Alpha 1 running on a test […]

Think the cloud is all about hosting applications on a remote server? Red Hat sees it differently. The Linux vendor has taken the wraps off of several initiatives that take a more expansive view of the cloud environment. Datamation has the story on Red Hat’s Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, where the company made a […]

Licensing issues would seem unexpected in the open source community, but just because source code is freely available doesn’t mean everything is thrown out to the public with no legal protections. However, the community doesn’t always agree on how things should be done. Linux Planet looks at the conflict between the two and says why […]

From the ‘Gentoo Linux‘ files: One of the most noteworthy features of Gentoo Linux is its Portage software management tool. Unlike other distros like those from Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu Gentoo has a rolling release cycle as users continually build their systems, thanks in part to Portage. While none of the big Linux distros […]

Red Hat has issued an early beta version of the latest iteration of its Enterprise Linux offering, version 5.5. The firm bills the release as a significant improvement in its virtualization offerings through a new run-time memory allocation feature. Server Watch has the details on the new offering, and looks at the impact on wireless. […]