Sean Michael Kerner

New Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) requirements are slated to go into effect June 30, and with them comes a race for retailers to become compliant. PCI compliance has emerged as a multimillion-dollar market, with vendors large and small lining up to help retailers prove to auditors that they run applications securely as […]

From the ‘just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true‘ files: I see a lot of so called ‘journalists’ that write about Open Source with stories up today about The Open Source Census and Microsoft now becoming a sponsor. No joke – but I laughed out loud reading most of them. How long […]

With the new Firefox 3 Web browser set for release tomorrow, tens of millions of Mozilla Firefox users on Windows will get an update notification directly from Mozilla to upgrade. But most Linux may be left in the dark, at least temporarily. That’s because most users of Linux distributions do not get their Firefox browser […]

From the ‘just cause you vote for someone doesn’t mean they’ll win‘ files: Red Hat has announced its Red Hat Innovation Award winners this a.m. It’s a process that I was invited to participate in as a judge this year. I got to see all of the raw applications from companies and groups hoping to […]

The eBay developer’s program is expanding its reach with a new platform, new APIs and a new way for developers to get in front of eBay sellers. The new initiatives come as eBay kicks off its annual developers conference in Chicago this week. The new platform initiatives are significant in that they enable developers even […]

While Firefox 3 is the big thing coming from Mozilla next week – it’s likely not the only thing. Mozilla Weave which is a Mozilla Labs effort for data synchronization and collaboration should have its 0.2 version out very near the Firefox 3 release on Tuesday. The general idea behind Weave is that by utilizing […]

The U.S. government deadline of June 30 for IPv6 compliance is nearing. Though the government is mandating compliance, two of the biggest vendors in the government networking space do not see a mad rush in the final week. Some doubt also exists as to whether the government’s IPv6 mandate is having an impact on enterprise […]

One of the best known open source developers at Yahoo! is on his way out. Jeremy Zawodny has publicly announced that he is leaving Yahoo! But don’t think that the Microsoft nonsense has anything to do with it. According to Zawodny it doesn’t. On his blog he wrote: “I won’t at all be surprised if […]

From the ‘free advice from the cheap seats‘ files: Last year at this time Red Hat launched its Red Hat Exchange (RHX) initiative. The idea in the beginning was to offer a marketplace for third party open source solutions that Red Hat would sell directly from the RHX site. At the time of its launch […]

In the four-ring circus that is the current browser market, each of the major vendors is doing their best to amaze users with new features and new releases. Today it’s Norway-based Opera Software’s turn under the big top with its latest browser release, Opera 9.5. The Opera 9.5 release, which comes two years after its […]

**UPDATED* Final Firefox 3 will be out on June 17th ** From the ‘how much farther‘ files: Well here it is Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 – is now out – for Windows, Linux and Mac. Just last week when RC 2 came out , most people (myself included) figured that would be the final […]

Though DNS , the Domain Name Service that translates domain names into IP addresses, has been in use for 25 years, there is always room for it to improve. The same is true for BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), which has been around since 1985 and is widely considered the pre-eminent DNS server. With the […]