Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘more robots‘ files: Novell has been talking about its Linux appliance program for over a year and now it’s ready to show off the fruit of their labor. Today, Novell is officially making its SUSE Studio online appliance building tool available as part of the SUSE Appliance Program. The Appliance program is Novell’s […]

From the ‘I personally wear a baseball cap‘ files: Feeling more insecure than usual? Seeing a few more stories this week about IT security than normal? Don’t worry it’s not the apocalypse ��� it’s just time for the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference. Lots going on this year (as usual), the toughest thing for […]

Technology vendors and governments are racing towards adopting Smart Grid technologies which could help to improve energy use and conservation efforts. But the Smart Grid, and in particular the smart meter part of the grid, could also introduce a new class of security threats. In April, a report came out claiming that the current US […]

From the ‘pie in the sky‘ files: Firefox 3.5 is now out, Firefox 3.6 is rapidly approaching its first official alpha milestone – and Firefox 4 is now getting mock ups? First off, you cannot judge a book – or in this case – a browser – by its cover. Firefox 4, whenever it appears […]

And the winner is… After a month of bidding, Nortel has announced the results of the so-called “stalking horse” auction for its wireless assets, with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson — better known as Ericsson — emerging as the winner with a bid of $1.13 billion. Ericsson’s winning bid topped the initial June bid from Nokia-Siemens for […]

Microsoft is rushing out a pair of emergency security updates on Tuesday in a move to lock down exploits in Internet Explorer and Visual Studio. While it warned about the upcoming, out-of-band patches on Friday, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has not yet provided detailed guidance on the specifics of what the vulnerabilities involve, though it is […]

From the ‘being open is good‘ files: Microsoft today is releasing a pair of new security efforts that are all about being more open when it comes to security. Project Quant is a new open community effort that is tasked with developing an update management cost model while the Microsoft Office Visualization Tool (OffVis) are […]

It’s not everyday that there is a public security exploit published for the Linux kernel, yet that is what happened in early July. Though the flaw itself was patched in the mainline Linux kernel several weeks prior to the public exploit code being published, not all users may have patched. It could have been a […]

The current state of the economy has punished networking vendor Juniper Networks, but the company’s CEO sees a light up ahead. Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) reported its second-quarter financial results after market close Thursday. For the quarter, Juniper reported net income of only $14.8 million, or $0.03 per share, which is a steep decline from the […]

From the ‘stalking horse’ files: A month ago, bankrupt Canadian Telecom giant Nortel announced that it had entered into a ‘stalking horse’ agreement with Nokia-Siemens to sell off its wireless assets for $650 million. The stalking horse part means that others could emerge to bid for the assets – and that’s what has happened. The […]

Intel’s Wind River subsidiary is now the leader in embedded Linux, at least when it comes to revenues, according to the market analysis by VDC Research. Wind River, which was acquired in June by Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) for $884 million, has more than 30 percent of the total market revenue for embedded Linux, VDC found. Wind […]