Sean Michael Kerner

With Sauce Labs as its commercial sponsor, the popular open source Web app testing software Selenium is poised for a boost thanks to its connection with Sauce Labs’ IDE and On Demand offerings, which aim to make the technology more useful to a broader audience. Developer.com takes a look.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet details how the latest version of Switchvox lets users find and activate new applications through their phone. Modern PBX phone systems often have lots of capabilities that end-users never actually see, since they don’t actually directly use the PBX — they use the phones that the PBX enables. That’s a situation that VoIP vendor […]

Macintosh users will want to be aware of the latest security update to the Mac OS. eSecurityPlanet has the details. Apple has released its first security fixes of 2010 for Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6, addressing a number of fixes in third-party code that Apple uses as part of its operating system. One of those […]

High definition video is exploding in use, from video on demand from your cable company to YouTube videos. Streaming video is bandwidth-intensive as it is, and high definition video even more so. So the thought of wireless high definition video seems difficult if not impossible. But Cisco says no, and Datamation has the networking giant’s […]

Add-ons are a popular option for Firefox users. Now LinuxPlanet has the story on how one such add-on, and possibly a few others, will soon become a standard part of the browser. Customizing and theming, or “skinning”, your open source browser is about to get easier, thanks to the integration of Personas in the upcoming […]

From the ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed‘ files: I’ve been writing about the ReactOS for at least five years (the project itself is more than 10 years old). It’s an effort to try and replicate a Windows operating system in open source. Originally it was all about getting a WindowsNT implementation — which they […]

Nortel as the world has known it is no more. But Avaya, after plunking down $900 million for the networking firm’s enterprise business, has big plans for the integration and explains what it will mean for its customers. Enterprise Networking Planet takes a look at what’s coming. Barely a month after formally closing its $900 […]

The rise of unified communications – the integration of data, video and voice in one supported product – has been stalled as of late. Like a lot of other new technologies, the rush to roll it out was delayed due to the severe downturn in the U.S. economy. But there have been signs of life […]

Think you need to live in a big, urban area to get the best broadband speeds? Think those rural areas are forgotten and neglected? Think again. Content deliver network provider Akamai has issued a report on the state of Internet broadband, and among the facts and figures are some surprising facts about where you will […]

From the ‘Firefox’s Cousins‘ files: Regular readers of my blog know that I’m not a fan of the Mozilla Thunderbird email project lately – I personally think that the effort has been mismanaged. A related project that I’ve long been interested in is the Mozilla Calendar efforts which includes the Sunbird standalone calendar and the […]

All the different modern browsers available to Web users make for sizable challenges for Web developers, with different browsers rendering sites in different ways. That’s one reason why site testing is more now critical than ever before. And to help Web site developers in their browser-testing efforts, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is expanding its BrowserLab service. […]

Ted T’so, the chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation, has moved on to start a new career at Google. T’so had been the CTO at the Linux Foundation for the past two years and as such, the move was not unexpected. “Ted’s fellowship at the Linux Foundation was a two-year assignment and was completed […]