Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘that’s a lot of machines‘ files: Red Hat’s Fedora Linux 10 has been out since the end of November 2008, and is now hovering around the 1 million installations mark. Fedora uses a system to measure active installations that check the update repositories in order to determine how many installations are in use. […]

Juniper gave a few tantalizing details of advanced technology in its development pipeline at an analysts day Tuesday. The company’s founder and chief technology officer, Pradeep Sindhu, announced a new silicon initiative from Juniper that he claimed was a quantum jump over current solutions. Sindhu called it a network instruction set processor and it is […]

Apple isn’t pulling any punches with its new Safari 4 Web browser, which began a public beta today. New user interface features, developer enhancements, performance improvements and new Web standards compliance are all key constituents of the Safari 4 release. The new release arrives amid a flurry of browser betas and improvements by all the […]

From the ‘browser speed wars‘ files: Apple is out with the first public beta of its Safari 4 web browser with a claim of running JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. JavaScript isn’t the only thing that makes a browser faster but it’s a technology measurement that all browser vendors lately are competing on. […]

Linux vendor Red Hat today is angling to position itself as one of the big players in virtualization, today unveiling a slew of new product initiatives designed to penetrate the enterprise on a number of fronts. The company today showed off a new standalone virtualization hypervisor based on KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), as well as […]

From the ‘ship when it’s ready‘ files: Where is Firefox 3.1? It’s a question that is being asking by Mozilla developers and others now as the release date continues to slip. Currently Firefox 3.1 is in Beta 2 with a Beta 3 coming – well when it’s ready. Firefox 3.1 when ready will include a […]

From the ‘wacky names r us‘ files: From the great minds that brought us the Hoary Hedgehog, Intrepid Ibex,Dapper Drake and Jaunty Jackalope comes the next wacky name for an Ubuntu Linux release: Karmic Koala. Ubuntu has always had wacky names and Karmic Koala continues the tradition. The official release name is Ubuntu 9.10 meaning […]

Bankrupt networking giant Nortel is moving into a new realm of its Chapter 11 reorganization. After cutting costs and reducing staff, it’s putting assets on the block. The company announced that is it selling off parts of its layer 4 through 7 product portfolio, which deals with the application awareness side of networking. Nortel acquired […]

WASHINGTON — Biometric security technology promises to secure users through a “key” that’s uniquely their own, like a fingerprint or a face. But as it turns out, it’s not that hard for an attacker to get a hold of a biometric key. They just need to replicate it. No, the process doesn’t involve cloning or […]

From the ‘privacy is a myth‘ files: WASHINGTON — Security researcher Xinwen Fu took the stage at Black Hat today and claimed that he could break Tor anonymity with a single cell. Tor is the global onion router network that provides anonymous internet transit for users. The way it works is there is a transit […]

WASHINGTON — Security researcher Dan Kaminsky is a man with a mission. His goal: to warn the world about the dangers that still persist in the Domain Name System, or DNS , in spite of having earlier sounded the alarm on a widespread vulnerability. Speaking today at the Black Hat security conference today, Kaminsky said […]

From the ‘flash isn’t always secure’ files: WASHINGTON DC — Adobe’s Flash format is everywhere on the web, but be warned : Flash files could potentially be carriers of security exploits. At least that’s the allegation of HP security researcher  Prajakta Jagdale who today talked about Flash security in a session at Black Hat DC. […]