Sean Michael Kerner

Xandros may be a relatively small Linux vendor, but it’s sure trying to make some noise. Almost two months ago it became the third Linux vendor to buy into Microsoft’s patent protection covenant, and now it’s expanding its scope by acquiring collaboration vendor Scalix. Financial terms of the agreement are not being disclosed, though Xandros […]

Mozilla has updated its flagship Firefox browser to version 2.0.0.5 with at least nine security issues fixed. Among them is one for an issue that was trigged when user also had Microsoft’s Internet Explorer installed as well. Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer is addressed by Mozilla Security Advisory 2007-23. The flaw […]

Google is serious about security, especially when the need for it hits close to home. Because cross site scripting (XSS) and other sorts of injection attacks are a particular threat to Google, the company’s security team is developing a black box fuzzing tool called Lemon, which is intended to automatically find XSS problems in applications. […]

Java EE 6 is a done deal. In a vote late yesterday, members of the Java Community Process (JCP) approved JSR-316, which defines the specification for the next version of enterprise Java. But approval didn’t come without some dissension from the ranks. Among those on the executive committee that voted in favor of approving the […]

Oracle  today issued its third critical patch update for 2007, fixing 45 security issues across its Database, Application Server, Collaboration Suite, E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards product lines. With 17 patches, Oracle Database products top the fix list for security concerns, two of which are remotely exploitable without user authentication. Oracle E-Business Suite received […]

Intel is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices. The site has already posted an initial list of projects that it will undertake, including key components such as the kernel, browser, power management framework and a user […]

It crawls the Web without malice seeking out every possible bit of content. It’s name is Googlebot, and sometimes it gets to see things on the Web that the rest of don’t. Unless of course you pretend to be Googlebot. Superficially spoofing Googlebot, Google’s Web crawler, is not a difficult thing to do and was […]

Oracle’s Linux offerings are gaining new support today. The support comes in the form of a string of certifications from Symantec’s  Veritas data center software products as well as new support for running Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Oracle Enterprise Linux. All told, Oracle  is hailing the new […]

What are you supposed to do when your competitors are bought? If you’re Cenzic, you take a piece of each for yourself. The application security vendor has watched its key competitors get absorbed by a pair of the biggest names in IT. IBM took Watchfire and HP bought out SPI Dynamics. Now Cenzic is integrating […]

IBM today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire real-time data-integration software vendor DataMirror. Under the publicly disclosed terms of the deal, IBM will pay approximately US$161 million to acquire all outstanding DataMirror common shares at a price of approximately US$25.78 per common share payable in cash. DataMirror is listed on the […]

With all product lines, there needs to be entry-level, high- and mid-level offerings. Juniper Networks  already has introduced new entry-level and high-end devices; today the networking vendor introduced a new series of mid-level routers to round out its portfolio. The SSG 320M, SSG 350M, J2320 and J2350 further flesh out Juniper’s Secure Services Gateway (SSG) […]

The little smiley face 🙂 and its cousins, known in most circles as Emoticons, turn 25 this year. Emoticons have become common place in many forms of digital communications, from e-mail to instant messaging (IM). With IM however, all the major public IM platforms (AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft ) have made emoticons a core part […]