Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Read The Fine Print‘ files: A new Microsoft-sponsored study from NSS Labs is out with a finding that IE 8 is the most secure browser, when it comes to catching, socially engineered malware. The study however did not look at the security of the browser or related plug-ins (like Flash). What is socially […]

From the ‘Better Than Sci-Fi‘ Files: NASA now has technology in place, for data transfer from the Earth to the Moon at an astounding 100 Mbps. That’s right, NASA has more bandwidth on the (literally) long haul between the Moon and the Earth than most Americans between their ISP’s and their homes. NASA has deployed […]

From the ‘Macromedia apps‘ files: Adobe is out this week with a fix for their ColdFusion and JRun technologies. In total, the two technologies were at risk from at least 7 different vulnerabilities. US-CERT issued a warning on the vulnerabilities earlier this week.  “These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive […]

From the ‘Second Update This Week’ files: Users of Google Chrome dev-channel edition are used to weekly updates. This week, users have now received two updates, the first including new syncing tech marking the debut of the 4.x series and now a second update with version 4.0.202.0. The 4.0.202.0 update includes fixes for at least […]

From the ‘Modest Market Leader‘ files: Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) was named in a study today by the Linux Foundation as being the top Linux kernel contribution company. Red Hat had 12 percent of all change contributions, led by their key kernel contributors Ingo Molnar and David S. Miller. I reached out to Red […]

Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource is being acquired by virtualization vendor VMware, but that’s not stopping new releases from coming out prior to the close of the acquisition. SpringSource today announced a new cloud offering called SpringSource Cloud Foundry that brings together Java middleware, management and cloud delivery. The technology is based in part on SpringSource’s […]

More developers are contributing more code to the development of Linux, and are speeding up in the process, according to a new study from the Linux Foundation. The latest “Who Writes Linux” report is now its second year, tracking the development of Linux from the 2.6.24 kernel to the recent 2.6.30 kernel release. The report […]

From the ‘More Fun With Stats‘ files: IDC is out with a new report (here’s the abstract link), forecasting Linux revenue from 2009-2013. I don’t have the full report (if you work for IDC can you help me out?) but at least one Linux vendor has already posted on some of the detailed information. According […]

From the ‘Zero to Four Versions in a Year’ files: Google is now out with Chrome 4.0.201.1, introducing browser bookmark syncing, kinda/sorta. No that’s not a typo in the version number either. This is Google Chrome 4, in its dev-channel release format. So for those of you keeping score at home, Google has gone from […]