Sean Michael Kerner

From the, “I prefer my fish grilled‘ files: VeriSign is out with a new report this morning, stating that 88 percent of web users in the US can’t identify phishing sites. Phishing sites are spoofed sites of legitimate sites that aim to trick users into giving up information. While the VeriSign numbers sound disturbing — […]

From the ‘free video‘ files: HTML 5 is coming and it could change the face of video enabling browser to directly include video with the new tag. Apple’s Safari 4, Opera 10, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.5 all have some form of HTML5 video support but what about the big video sites? What about […]

From the ‘shadow of Y2K‘ files: At 5 PM ET/2PM PT today (Friday June 12, 2009) Twitter will officially hit what is being called the Twitpocalypse. The Twitpolcalypse is a mathematical event that could spell the end (for a short period) for third party Twitter clients. The way the Twitter API works is that a […]

From the ‘Apple tech for Windows users‘ files: Apple is reporting that it’s new Safari 4 web browser was downloaded 11 million times in the first three days (two of those downloads are mine). I don’t own a Mac (my last Apple was an Apple ][e) but i do have a PC (dual-boot and vm’ed […]

From the ‘it’s not contagious is it?‘ files:  Mono – Novell’s implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework on Linux is an interesting technology. It enables some valuable Linux applications like Tomboy (for note taking) and also raises some interesting legal questions. Since Mono benefits from the Microsoft/Novell interoperability agreement, some in the Linux community have concerns […]

June’s not even half over, and it’s already proven to be a busy month for Mozilla developers. Within recent days, the team pushed out the first official Firefox 3.5 release candidate (RC 1) and updated its Jetpack technology for browser add-ons. At the same time, Mozilla is also working to stamp out a handful of […]

From the ‘open web video‘ files: A key part of the HTML 5 specification is support for the new tag. It’s a new tag that could potentially revolutionize the world of web view by enabling web browsers to directly load and control video. The only issue — and it’s a big one in my […]

From the ‘big ideas that will change the web‘ files: Native Client is coming to Google — soon. This is big news. Native Client is a technology that will enable a browser to run code over the web (not just JavaScript or Java) but regular software. It’s an approach that has profound technological implications in […]

A decade after work first began on version 9 of BIND, the widely deployed open source DNS server, work is now fully underway on its successor, BIND 10. It’s a closely watched and long-anticipated overhaul. BIND is in wide use among used by enterprises, ISPs and service providers to route domain name traffic to the […]

From the ‘they never said it was stable‘ files: At 6:28 PM PT on Wednesday, Google issued Chrome dev-channel version 3.0.187.0. Just over an hour later (7:31 PM) the update to Chrome users was halted — due to a serious crash condition that made the browser difficult to use. “The crash is http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13759,” Google’s Mark […]

In November of 2006, Microsoft rocked the Linux world by signing a landmark patent and interoperability agreement with Novell. According to the two partners, it’s an agreement that today, two and half years later is still paying off, even during the current recession. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) say they’ve added 100 new […]