Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘insiders viewpoint‘ files: Jeff Moss, the founder of the Black Hat and Defcon conferences is now officially helping the U.S Government. Moss was sworn in on Friday by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). HSAC is a group of 16 member from various […]

The domain name business is still adding new registrations even in the midst of the worst recession in at least 50 years. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), at the end of the first quarter of 2009 there was a total 183 million domain names registered across all Top […]

Firefox 3.0 is not quite a year old, but users are already clamoring for Firefox 3.5. So where is it, and what is it all about? In an interview at the Mozilla Toronto office, Mike Belzner, director of Firefox and the person responsible for Firefox releases, explained what is going on with the Firefox 3.5 […]

From the ‘still in the oven‘ files: Google at long last, has publicly made a build of its Chrome browser available for Linux and Mac users. But don’t get too excited yet- it doesn’t work (well) yet. When Google Chrome first debuted, it was Windows only with the promise of more platforms ‘soon’. Now more […]

A simple truth of Web development is that different browsers handle Web sites differently. In order to help Web developers see how their sites will look on different browsers, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) is now previewing a Web-based service called BrowserLab. The new BrowserLab enables developers to see how their Web layouts will look on several, […]

From the ‘all your OS are belong to us‘ files: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) is acquiring embedding software developer Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND) for $884 million. Wind River is a company I’ve been tracking for years as a key player in the embedded software operating system space, first with its proprietary VxWorks OS and since 2004 with Linux. […]

When Cisco first announced its Unified Computing System (UCS) product portfolio earlier this year it was all about its ‘B’ series blade servers. Now Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is expanding its UCS product portfolio with a new ‘C’ series that includes three new rack servers, which are officially being announced at its Partner Summit now underway in […]

The .org top-level domain (tld) is now signed with DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions) to help protect against DNS hijacking. The effort gained steam last year when .ORG announced its intention to secure itself with DNSSEC. It’s an effort that involved millions of dollars of effort, according to the technical operator of .ORG, Afilias. DNSSEC is […]

From the ‘who isn’t open?‘ files: When I was at Interop in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I heard SAP CTO Vishal Sikka (pic left that I took) explain how SAP supports Open Source for the cloud. Today ,SAP extended its open source commitment by upping its membership status within the Eclipse Foundation. SAP […]

From the ‘who said penguins can’t fly‘ files: Verizon Business rolled out its Computing as a Service (CaaS) product today, which brings the big carrier directly into the cloud marketplace. While the cloud is a compute infrastructure, it still needs an operating system and for Verizon that means both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft […]

From the ‘nice guys finish last?‘ files: Opera is out today with the first Opera 10 beta. The new browser had been in Alpha since at least December of 2008. Opera is claiming the new version is faster than its predecessor by way of the Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engine. Though speed is key (and […]