Sean Michael Kerner

Thanks to social networks and tools like Twitter and RSS, online communications today are made up of much more than just simply Web pages. Yet while these technologies have increased the volume of messages on the Internet, they’re not all easily accessed through one of the most-used Internet applications — the Web browser. That’s where […]

From the “what a difference an L makes” files: Nokia is going to change the licensing for Qt (the open source graphics toolkit) from GPL to LGPL starting in March of this year with the Qt 4.5 release. This is a BIG deal. The GPL license is more restrictive than the LGPL (lesser GPL) in […]

Telecom equipment vendor Nortel Networks has filed for bankruptcy protection after reportedly missing a $107 million interest payment that was due today. Trading in shares of the Canadian-based Nortel (NYSE/TSX: NT), which is listed on both the Toronto and New York stock exchanges, was halted following Nortel’s announcement today. Nortel is seeking protection from creditors […]

Oracle is out with its first critical patch update (CPU) for 2009 fixing no less than 41 flaws in Oracle products with nearly half of them specific to Oracle’s database product suite. All told Oracle’s database products receive 20 security fixes spread across three sub-product lines. Oracle’s namesake database gets ten fixes in the January […]

In today’s economic climate, remote access is becoming increasingly important as organizations downsize their on-site operations. In a move that aims to better cashing in on the trend, secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendor SonicWall is now ramping up its Aventail product offering, with enhancements that aims to make it easier for Window, Mac and […]

From the ‘even now people are hiring‘ files: Though Sun recently shed thousands of jobs, it’s actually now hiring – well for at least one key position. Sun is looking for a Software Senior Staff Engineer to work on the MySQL open source Drizzle project. Drizzle is an effort launched last July to create a […]

Making Web applications faster is big business for big businesses-like carriers. Mid-market enterprises can also benefit from web acceleration, which is where Networking vendor Coyote Point is concentrating its efforts. Coyote Point is now rolling out a new Equalizer GX line of Web Acceleration appliances that offer the promise of improved Web application speeds as […]

Novell is expanding its access management solution today with the addition of new federation options, new client support and new functionality that monitors clients to ensure compliance with security policy, similarly to Network Access Control (NAC). But don’t call it a NAC. Novell’s new Access Manager 3.1 release comes as the market for access control […]

From the “this is SPARTA, um I mean Linux” files: Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has named the winner of the Fedora 11 naming sweepstakes…and the winner is: LEONIDAS.  Leonidas (and his band of over 300) beat out Blarney, Brasilia Claypool, Duchess, Euryalus, Indomitable,  and  Zampone as the name for Fedora 11.  The Fedora Project started […]

Some technologies move fast, while others blaze at lightning speed such as Google’s latest Chrome browser, now at version 2.0.156.1. The latest release includes a major new version of the WebKit rendering engine, new customization options, security and speed enhancements as well as a new HTTP engine that could herald the introduction of Chrome for […]

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky made headlines last year when he discovered a critical DNS flaw. If left unpatched it could have crippled vast parts of the Internet. As 2009 starts up, a new DNS flaw has emerged, but the severity of the threat is less pronounced. ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) the group leading development of […]

From the ‘when version numbers don’t matter‘ files: Google Chrome which ‘just’ hit version 1.x last month has now jumped ahead and is now at version 2.0.156.1. Google is also now splitting up its releases into three public versions (from two) so there will now be a stable, dev and a beta version (confused yet?) […]