Sean Michael Kerner

The Web browser is the principal tool by which we all connect to the Internet to consume content. It’s also one of the principal tools that attackers use to get at your personal data and compromise your computer. This helps explain a key trend with Web browser development and security features: virtual browsers. For example, […]

From the “we’re not leaches” files: For years there have been those that have accused Ubuntu of not contributing enough to the upstream development of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth founder and leader of Ubuntu is tired of the criticism and is now putting more of his money and resources into upstream development – in the process […]

After 10 years in Portland, Oregon, OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference is moving in 2009 to the San Franciso Bay area. I was just at OSCON this past August in Portland and it’s somewhat sad to think that it was the last OSCON to be held in Portland. Then again San Franciso is a […]

One of the cornerstones of the landmark interoperability deal between Novell and Microsoft was, and is, virtualization. Two years after they struck their agreement, Microsoft and Novell have extended their partnership. The partners are now finally rolling out a supported Linux on a Windows virtualization solution. The new supported Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on […]

Remote workers are proliferating in organizations around the world. Yet how do you easily ensure that they are connecting seamlessly and securely to the enterprise infrastructure? It’s a question that networking juggernaut Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) believes it’s already answered for more than 12,000 of its employees across 70 countries. After seeing success with a server, […]

From the “tearing the fabric of space-time” files: The most powerful physics project in the history of the known universe – The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)– shot its first light speed beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to build and half of all the world’s […]

Microsoft is now out with its September patch Tuesday release, fixing no less than four critical vulnerabilities. The patch issues affect Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Encoder and Microsoft Office. While faulty image formats are patched in this update, Microsoft is also patching other media related issues this time as well. If left unpatched, the vulnerabilities […]

Though the U.S. still trails other parts of the world in deployment of high-speed broadband, all is not lost. According to the latest State of the Internet report from content delivery player Akamai, the nation’s broadband penetration is on the rise. Akamai found that U.S. broadband connections — defined as connections at 5 megabits per […]

From the “where do they come up with those names” files: Ever heard of a Jaunty Jackalope? Well now you have and you’ll be hearing more in the months to come as Jaunty Jackalope is the code name for Ubuntu Linux 9.04 set for release in April of 2009. “The Warrior Rabbit is our talisman […]

Commentary: Behold the world’s most popular can opener is 10 years old! Or, as it calls itself, Google. Bet you thought that Google was all about search, but you’d be wrong. Search has always been at the core of what Google does but the Google ‘Can Opener’ is Google’s primary innovation. You see, Google doesn’t […]

The first official Chrome update is out, but don’t look for release notes from Google – there aren’t any. Though Google Chrome has generated plenty of buzz, millions of downloads and has been an internal work in progress for at least the past two years, apparently Google doesn’t yet have its release engineering process up […]

From the “under construction” files: Mozilla developers have pushed out their latest milestone build for Firefox 3.1 with the alpha 2 release. Surprisingly though, this latest build does not yet include the faster Tracemonkey JavaScript engine which Mozilla developers are claiming is faster than Google Chrome’s V8.  Tracemonkey is however in the nightly builds of […]