Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Code Yellow Alert‘ Files: Google Chrome development is moving along full speed ahead. Why is this news? Well let me tell you… Early last week, Google developer Anthony LaForge (no not Geordi, he’s working on the warp core still…) issued a ‘Code Yellow’ alert halting all Google Chrome release until some critical bugs […]

Demand for faster Internet connections is continuing to fuel global adoption for broadband access. According to the latest estimates from industry research firm iSuppli, the third quarter of 2009 saw the addition of 16.3 million new broadband subscribers worldwide. The estimate represents a 2 percent year-over-year increase and comes even as ISPs are being hit […]

From the ‘Where Did the Features Go?‘ files: The first official Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta release is now available, bringing with it a whole bunch of improvements to the open source web browser. It’s also (to my naked eye) missing a few features that I had initially expected to see in Firefox 3.6. Officially the […]

From the ‘Vaporware Language Release‘ files: Back in 2005, I wrote a story for InternetNews.com where I wrote that I expected PHP 6 to be out in 2006. Here we are three years later and guess what? No PHP 6. Back in 2005, the promise of PHP 6 was to be the next big thing […]

Tina Dam, ICANN’s senior director of IDNsSource: ICANN For the last decade, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been talking about opening up the Internet to languages and characters beyond English and the Latin alphabet. Now ICANN is making good on its talk, formally approving these International Domain Names (IDN) for […]

The whole point of having a wireless enterprise infrastructure is to increase mobility and reduce cables. Yet for many enterprises, managing those wireless LANs (WLANs) requires an on-site server. Wireless networking vendor Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) is now aiming to change the wireless management paradigm with a new cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The company’s […]

From the ‘Competitive Irony‘ files: In 2006, networking giant Cisco Systems revamped it’s corporate logo and its branding. At the time, rival Juniper Networks, put out its own anti-Cisco branding marketing initiative, printing up T shirts with a press release type letter on the back. The gist of the letter was that Juniper, unlike Cisco, […]

From the ‘Rapid Release Cycles’ files: Since its first release a year ago, Google’s Chrome browser has been updated at a rapid pace — perhaps too rapid. This week, Chrome developer Anthony Laforge issued a ‘Code Yellow’ alert and put all Chrome developer releases on hold, until some high priority bugs could be fixed. The […]

Networking isn’t just about routers and switches anymore. In a series of announcements today made by Networking vendor Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) made a series of announcements today that reflect a revamping of its business around new processing silicon, networking systems and software. Juniper’s new efforts are designed around speeding up networking with a combination of […]

In February, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 9.10 would be codenamed the “Karmic Koala”. Today, after months of development and buzz, the Karmic Koala is being officially released into the wild. The open source OS’s developers are simultaneously releasing the server, desktop and netbook editions of Ubuntu 9.10 today, offering what Shuttleworth […]

Not every service provider needs the biggest routers to serve its customers. It’s a market reality that networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent is taking to heart with a pair of new routers introduced today. With the release, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) is downsizing its 7750 Service Router (SR) for smaller points of presence than its traditional target of […]

In the enterprise, developers are often working on code for software even as it’s already in production use by IT operations people. But what happens when that code still has bugs? How does operations communicate back to developers, and vice-versa? The problem of integrating developer tools with operations tools is one that is now being […]