Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco is rolling out new security, collaboration and storage hardware as part of a $100 million effort targeting small and medium-sized businesses. With the new SMB-focused solutions, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) executives say they’re providing features tailored especailly for smaller business. This is not enterprise scale technology retro-fitted for smaller players. As part of the effort, […]

From the ‘desktop flame wars aren’t over‘ files: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has helped to re-ignite interest in the on again/off again public flame war between GNOME and KDE Linux desktop users. Torvalds gave an interview in Australia last week where he noted that he had chosen to go back to GNOME after a negative […]

To date, building a cloud computing infrastructure has been a relatively closed affair, with vendors offering their own respective services directly to prospective users. A new service from Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) spin-off Zimory, which launches officially on Monday, aims to change that paradigm with a new approach: opening up a cloud computing marketplace that […]

From the “rapid release” files: Google is out with its fourth update for the Chrome browser this year updating the dev-channel version to 2.0.158.0. The new Chrome browser might end up being a help in the fight against bad MD5 certificate usage. The new version is mostly a bug fix for WebKit issues that were […]

From the ‘don’t mess with Apache‘ files: The Apache HTTP open source web server (I usually just call it Apache, but Apache is more than just web servers these days..) gained over a million new sites for the month of January 09, according to the latest stats from Netcraft. The Netcraft study does not measure […]

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space is about more than just managing content. It’s about creating content too. That’s where open source ECM vendor Alfresco’s new Labs 3.0 release comes into play. Alfresco Labs 3.0 adds new Web Studio functionality that enables users to build sites with drag and drop ease. Alfresco’s open source products […]

On the heels of its best quarterly results ever, Apple is updating its QuickTime media playing software on both Mac and Windows platforms. The new QuickTime 7.6 release is Apple’s first security update of the year and fixes at least seven issues that could potentially allow an attacker to control a vulnerable system. Among the […]

The PHP community is finally getting an update to the Eclipse Foundation’s PHP Developer Tools (PDT) project, an important set of tools for developers that has not been updated since the initial 1.0 release in 2007. PDT 2.0 expands on the first release with new usability and object-oriented programming features for PHP developers. The new […]

Network acceleration vendor Riverbed is aiming to get into the network visibility game, thanks to its purchase of Mazu Networks. While Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) has been focused on network acceleration, Mazu’s technology provides additional visibility into application traffic over the network. The $25 million cash acquisition, which also entails up to a $22 million payout […]

From the ‘Mozilla is hiring‘ files: Open Source thrives on participation. Not everyone has the skills/time/interest in directly participating with code validation and contributions but there are other ways to participate. Mozilla is ramping up on a new way to engage and learn from its user community. The new effort is called Mozilla Test Pilot […]

Cisco is perhaps best known as a router and switch vendor for networking equipment. In recent years Cisco has expanded beyond its core networking roots to tackle collaboration with the acquisition of WebEx and IPTV vendor Scientific Atlanta. Now, a report in Monday’s New York Times says Cisco is gearing up to take on yet […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is updating its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to version 5.3 with added support for new Intel Nehalem hardware and including new Java, clustered file system and security tools. RHEL 5.3 also adds improved support for Windows Vista interoperability, something that had been lacking from prior RHEL releases. “Our minor […]