Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘WebKit Browser‘ files: According to at least one browser share tracking vendor, Google’s Chrome browser is now more widely used than Apple’s Safari browser. The latest December 2009 data from Net Application gives Chrome an incremental lead over Safari. According to Net Applications, Chrome has a 4.63 percent share while Safari holds 4.46 […]

Unix has been a major presence in computing for decades, with numerous businesses, government agencies and other organizations relying on it for their mission-critical applications. As a result, making changes to the platform’s specifications isn’t a task to be undertaken lightly — as Unix’s caretakers at the Open Group well know. ServerWatch has a look […]

Embattled telecommunications vendor Nortel is pressing ahead with its asset sell-off. Now up for grabs is its carrier VoIP unit. Despite Nortel’s own bankruptcy, the division has been growing rapidly — signing dozens of clients this year alone. Enterprise Networking Planet has the story. Nortel is set to exit 2009 as little more than a […]

From the ‘Incremental Fixes‘ files: Mozilla developers are now testing the next stable build of the Firefox 3.5.x series. Firefox 3.5.7 is now available as a beta build for testers to try out. The 3.5.7 dev update milestone follows closely on the heels of the Firefox 3.5.6 update which came out earlier this month. Mozilla […]

As went Wind River, so too now goes MontaVista Software. Now a part of a large, publicly traded company, the embedded Linux player says it now enjoys the financial backing to put customers’ doubts to rest, and make a run as a supplier to big carriers and networking firms. Enterprise Networking Planet has the details. […]

From the ‘Listen In‘ files: It’s that time of year again when everyone and their brother’s first grade teacher’s second cousin is making 2010 predictions. Want to hear our tech predictions for 2010? We’ve made it real easy for you, you don’t even have to read them all  — just listen in to our 2010 […]

From the ‘What’s a Pre-Alpha‘ files: Forget about betas, alphas or nightlies – what you want is a pre-alpha release right? Well that’s what Opera Software is pitching with its Opera 10.5 pre-alpha release this week. Why Opera 10.5 is interesting to both end-users, developer and competitors, revolves around one key technology – Carakan. Carakan […]

Intel has its sights set on patching a security flaw in its Trusted Execution Technology that’s designed to lock down its chips and prevent untrusted software from running. eSecurity Planet takes a look. Intel this week is updating its Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) for a critical flaw that could potentially have enabled an attacker to […]

Enterprise Linux player Red Hat proved again that it’s managing to perform well despite the continued softness in corporate spending: During last quarter, it grew revenues and won customers from Windows and UNIX. Linux Planet takes a look. Once again, Linux vendor Red Hat has beat expectations and defied the gravity of a down economy. […]

MySQL marches on. LinuxPlanet reports on the latest developments, the MySQL 5.5 release, which includes some long-awaited features. Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun and critics’ concerns about its impact on Oracle’s open source database competition, Sun developers are still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits of […]

Cisco has a big win to crow about as it goes head-to-head with some of the biggest names in the datacenter space — it’s landed a deal to provide the infrastructure behind Taser’s new Evidence.com cloud service. ServerWatch has the story. One of Cisco’s biggest initiatives this year was the rollout of its Project California […]

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is set to report its third-quarter fiscal 2010 earnings at the close of market today — capping off an active quarter of new releases and business activities for the enterprise Linux vendor. For the quarter ended Nov. 30, Wall Street analysts project revenues of $188 million and earnings of $0.16 per […]