Sean Michael Kerner

When it comes to security, technology isn’t necessary the only solution — especially when the people using the technology are part of the security problem. That’s the key message coming from networking giant Cisco (NYSE:CSCO). Cisco’s assertion comes as it reveals that security spending could well be on the rise in 2008. According to results […]

P>For more than 20 years, GCC has been at the heart of free and open source software development as the compiler of choice. This week the compiler expanded choices for developers with the release of GCC 4.3, which adds what developers refer to as substantial functionality not available in GCC 4.2.x or previous GCC versions. […]

Sure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a stable distribution, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t change and improve – even inside of release cycles.  Case in point is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL) now available as a Beta. The 5.2 release is the second incremental release since RHEL 5 was released in […]

After more than a year and half of partnership, Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have rolled out new unified communications services. According to company executives, the joint Nortel-Microsoft offering is yielding results and wins against competitors including IBM, Cisco and Avaya. “This alliance is based on alignment of the visions of our CEOs,” […]

Gotta love tech bloggers and so called ‘journalists’. There is alot of buzz in tech media this week related to an AP report that claims that Wal-Mart is dropping the Everex Linux PC’s. Reality is that just as you could last week, you can go to Wal-Mart.com (and here I’ll make it easy for you […]

Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now out boasting no less than 900 fixes over the Beta 3 release. On the surface Mozilla has again made some minor cosmetic changes to Firefox 3 that vary depending on whether you’re running Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux/GNOME or MAC OS X. The 900 fixes though seem to […]

For technology vendors that are missing something from their product portfolio, they can either build, buy, or partner to get what they need. When it comes to security event management and correlation, Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks have decided to partner with the same third-party vendor. Both Nortel and Juniper are using technology from Q1 […]

From the better late than never files: More than two years after I first wrote about Gnash (an open source effort to create an open source Flash player), an official Beta is now available. The first beta release of Gnash has just been made at version 0.8.2. Gnash is a GPL’d SWF movie player and […]

Think all the good domain names are taken? Think again. If the latest set of statistics from VeriSign is any indication, there are still a lot of domain names to go around. VeriSign reported that in 2007 there were 33 million new domain registrations, bringing the total number of domains registered to 153 million. The […]

Mozilla’s greatest success to date has come from its online efforts with the Firefox web browser.  Since at least October of last year they’ve been working on the Mozilla Prism effort to bring the online experience to the desktop. That effort is taking a major step forward today. Instead of struggling with Mozilla Prism to […]

In open source it’s all about being as ‘open’ as possible. Even more so than before, that’s now the case with OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite which as of the upcoming OOo 3 Beta will be licenced under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) version 3. OOo had previously been available under the LGPL v2 so it’s not […]

US-CERT is warning users to upgrade their Java installations to protect against a number of serious security vulnerabilities. Sun  has released alerts to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the Sun Java   Runtime Environment.  The most  severe of these vulnerabilities  could  allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. In total it’s difficult to grasp how many […]