Sean Michael Kerner

Networking giant Cisco Systems is no stranger to competitive market and technology challenges. It’s now facing a new type of challenge, one from its shareholders. At Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) annual general meeting today, shareholders led by Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS) challenged the firm’s management on the issue of executive pay. The CBIS shareholders put […]

After almost a year of development, Novell’s openSUSE 11.2 Linux release is now available, providing the community Linux distribution with an updated key application as well as a new approach to the community itself. The new openSUSE 11.2 release comes in the middle of a busy Linux distribution season, following Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala and ahead […]

It’s one thing to find bugs in software code — it’s quite another to actually figure out the importance of one bug relative to another. It’s a problem that code analysis vendor Coverity is aiming to solve with a new release of its namesake platform. The big new feature in Coverity 5 is officially called […]

From the ‘WebKit Flaws‘ files: Apple is updating its Safari web browser to version 4.0.4 to fix 7 identified CVE’s (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) spread across both Mac and Windows versions of the software. Three of the fixes are for Safari’s core WebKit rendering engine and in my opinion they’re critical issues. What’s particularly interesting […]

The roots of Hewlett-Packard’s proposed $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com are set not in the Silicon Valley or Massachusetts, where the two firms are respectively headquartered, but in China. A key part of the deal for HP (NYSE: HPQ) is 3Com’s H3C division in China as well as 3Com’s core datacenter switching offerings. […]

What’s behind Logitech’s big $405 million acquisition of HD video conferencing vendor LifeSize? According to execs from both companies it’s all about bringing video to all ends of the market. During Logitech’s analyst day event today in New York, Gerald Quindlen CEO of Logitech said that his goal is for video capabilities to be as […]

From the ‘Bug Swatting‘ files: Mozilla is now out with its second beta for its upcoming Firefox 3.6 open source browser release. The new 3.6 beta fixes at least 186 bugs from the first 3.6 beta which came out last week. That’s right folks, two betas in two weeks. Mozilla is serious about getting Firefox […]

From the ‘Yet Another Language to Learn’ files: Google is now open sourcing a new experimental programming language called – Go. According to Google, “Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.” Google also notes in its […]

From the ‘Embedded Linux‘ files: MontaVista Software, the pioneer of the modern embedded Linux market is set to be acquired by Cavium Networks in a deal valued at $50 million. The deal which was just announced, includes $34 million in Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) common stock and $16 million in cash. The deal is expected […]