Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla Corp. CEO Mitchell Baker, once known as the open-source firm’s “Chief Lizard Wrangler,” has stepped out of the top spot, a position she has held since the company’s creation. Replacing her will be the Mozilla Corp.’s chief operating officer, John Lilly, the company said. Baker will stay on as chairman of Mozilla Corp., as […]

While backers of mobile Linux are all trying to increase Linux adoption, the question for vendors has been which mobile Linux effort they should back among the crowd of mobile Linux organizations. In the case of Trolltech, maker of the popular Qtopia mobile Linux platform, they’ve chosen to move from the LiPS (The Linux Phone […]

IPv6 adoption has a key adoption deadline looming this year, but is still facing plenty of barriers to adoption. Key among them is this: IPv6 address information is not included in most of the root DNS servers that power the Internet. This makes IPv6 to IPv6 connections a difficult proposition. At a time when the […]

A common feature on many Web sites is a pop-up dialog box where users enter their username and password. Before you enter your information in Firefox next time, you might want to think twice. Security researcher Aviv Raff is alleging that in the latest Firefox 2.0.0.11 release the pop-up dialog box for password entry can […]

Data leakage is one of the greatest security risks facing IT organizations. The challenge of keeping confidential information secured is one that many security vendors claim to solve through different means. Among the many vendor solutions is that offered by security vendor Lumension Security, which now has a new U.S. patent to prove its “shadowing” […]

As the final days of the once venerable Netscape browser come to a close, it’s a good to time to eulogize Netscape, to remember and to learn from its triumph and from its tragedy. Though I haven’t used an actual Netscape-branded browser in years, I have continued to benefit from Netscape’s legacy — we all […]

The public has a seemingly insatiable demand for as much information as possible about Microsoft security. To help feed it, Microsoft has added yet another information resource: its new Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog, which officially launched this week. The Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog (SWI) is designed to provide additional, in-depth technical […]

After nearly 14 years of life, the Netscape browser will soon be taken off life support. AOL which acquired Netscape in a stellar $4.2 billion deal in 1998 quietly announced the browser’s demise — scheduled for Feb. 1 — in a blog posting today. “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported Web business leaves little […]

Can money buy security? That’s a question that IBM may be set to answer as it prepares to enter 2008 with a multibillion-dollar effort to bolster security. At the time Big Blue unveiled its big security plans in November, it gave some indication as to how the money would be spent in developing new technologies […]

While some areas of the retail landscape may be showing weakness this holiday season, the granddaddy of all e-commerce sites, Amazon, isn’t among them. Amazon announced this week that 2007 was its best holiday shopping season in its entire 13-year history. According to the company, its busiest shopping day was not the much-vaunted Cyber Monday […]

There are only so many times you can cheat the reaper. In the case of embattled Unix vendor SCO, it appears as though time has run out for its life as a publicly listed company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Effective the open of business today, NASDAQ has delisted SCO’s publicly traded stock, which had […]

It should come as no surprise that enterprises want to squeeze as much performance out of their Wide Area Networks (WANs) as possible. The latest data from Infonetics Research found that they’re spending ever-increasing amounts to do so. The research firm found that for the third quarter of 2007, sales revenue for WAN optimization appliances […]