Sean Michael Kerner

Hello! Today is the official launch day for the new InternetNews.com, the blog.internetnews.com blog and this blog. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes pulling things together for some time. So if you notice that there are some 17 other posts that I’ve already made on this blog– don’t worry you didn’t miss them – […]

In its largest vulnerability fix since 2006, Mozilla’s new Firefox 2.0.0.12 release addresses a slew of problems ranging from information leakage to cross-site scripting (XSS). Mozilla issued 10 security advisories alongside the new Firefox release, the largest number of publicly acknowledged associated vulnerability advisories or a Firefox release since the 2.x browser first debuted. The […]

Quarter after quarter, year after year, Cisco Systems has been a bellwether for the IT industry. So when the networking giant sees trouble ahead, people take notice. During Cisco’s Wednesday earnings call for its second fiscal quarter, CEO John Chambers announced solid results. However, the news was tempered by his warning that the company is […]

SugarCRM continues to roll in the dough, the most recent dough rolling coming not from new customers but from a new round of venture capital investment. A nice sum of $20 million in new investment to be precise. The latest round of financing was led by New Enterprise Associates. SugarCRM has existing investors including Draper […]

Speed is important in all aspects of computing, especially with databases. The latest 8.3 release of the open source PostgreSQL database has speed and a kind of heat of its own in mind. It’s HOT, literally. HOT is an acronym for Heap Organized Tuples (HOT),but according to PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus HOT in […]

Business employees working remotely say they believe the Internet is getting safer. But they’re actually one of the reasons it’s so unsafe, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researcher Insight Express and sponsored by Cisco, polled 2,000 remote access workers in 10 countries. Most of the respondents (56 percent) said they felt […]

Yahoo! has a number of different Open Source efforts and initiatives under its umbrella. One of the biggest is Zimbra, which Yahoo acquired for $350 million last year. Zimbra is also a direct competitor to Microsoft Exchange (and Outlook). Zimbra this week officially released ZCS 5.0 which is the latest edition of their AJAX email/calendaring/collaboration […]

Today is the day that the GoPHP5.org community ‘flips the switch’ on PHP 5 development and ends all active ongoing development in PHP 4. I wrote about the PHP 5 org effort over on the main site last week in a story that I personally was very excited to write, after all I cut […]

Zimbra is out today with the first major release of its open source based Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) solution since being acquired by Yahoo last year. Zimbra’s ZCS release also comes at a particularly interesting time as Microsoft bids for ownership of Yahoo. ZCS 5.0 extends the feature set of ZCS and also introduces integrations with […]

Yes I know that this blog isn’t powered by the open source blogging software WordPress 🙁 Though millions of other blogs are.  Apparently those millions of users are worth some money, a good sum of money in fact. Automattic, the vendor behind WordPress has just scored  $29.5 million in Series B venture funding. According to […]

Feb 1st was supposed to the end of Netscape Navigator support. In their infinite wisdom AOL has decided to stay Netscape’s execution by one month to March 1st. AOL/Netscape development director Tom Drapeau made the announcement in a blog post. Mozilla, Flock and AOL are working together to provide tools to ease the migration of […]

Time sure does fly. Today is the official 10th anniversary of the Mozilla Project. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (January 22, 1998) — Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced bold plans to make the source code for the next generation of its highly popular Netscape Communicator client software available for free licensing on the Internet. The […]