Sean Michael Kerner

Currently whenever a Firefox user opens a new tab, the tab is populated with tiles, which are thumbnail screenshots of the user’s most frequently visited sites. A new effort called Directory Tiles will enhance that experience for new users. “Directory Tiles will pre-populate the new Tab page with suggested Websites sourced from both selected and […]

On Feb. 7, Bitcoin exchange site Mt. Gox reported that it was experiencing delays and would be restricting all withdrawals. On Feb. 10, Mt. Gox blamed the delays on a Bitcoin protocol related issue known as transaction malleability. “A bug in the bitcoin software makes it possible for someone to use the Bitcoin network to […]

One of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ever seen hit the Internet on Monday February 11th. The target? A site protected by DDoS cloud security vendor CloudFlare. CloudFlare is no stranger to large DDoS attacks and successfully repelled a 2013 DDoS attack that clocked in at 300 Gbps of attack traffic. That […]

Microsoft this week released seven security bulletins, including a massive IE update that addresses no less than 24 vulnerabilities. The IE security update impacts versions 6 through 11 and includes 23 privately reported vulnerabilities and one that was publicly disclosed. Twenty-one of the IE vulnerabilities are grouped together by Microsoft in its security bulletin under […]

During the final keynote session at the OpenDaylight Summit on Wednesday afternoon, a panel session led by OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee Chairman David Meyer,  provided detail on what’s likely to come in the next major release of OpenDaylight, tentatively named Helium. Among the new projects are one known as Application Policy Plugin, submitted by Cisco, […]

Microsoft is set to release its second major patch update of the year on Feb. 11, and it doesn’t look to be a heavy load. The advance notification indicates that there will be five security bulletins released on Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday, with only two of them rated as critical. For the first Patch Tuesday […]

For the fourth quarter of 2013, Twitter reported revenue of $243 million, which is a 116 percent year-over-year gain. All that revenue, however, still doesn’t mean that Twitter is profitable as the company reported a Net Loss of $511 million. For the full year, Twitter’s revenue came in at $665 million, while the full year […]

LinkedIn reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 results late Thursday, as the online service topped 277 million members. For the quarter, revenue came in at $447.2 million, a 47 percent year-over-year increase. Net Income for the fourth quarter was $3.8 million, a decline from the $11.8 reported in the fourth quarter of […]

Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle since at least 2011. Palo Alto Networks was founded by a number of high-level Juniper employees in 2007. Juniper alleged that Palo Alto has infringed on a number of its patents. Palo Alto disagrees. Juniper has asked for summary judgement in […]

Security firm Imperva is acquiring a pair of companies it is very familiar with: Incapsula and Skyfence. Incapsula is a cloud-based security platform spun off from Imperva, and Skyfence, which recently emerged from stealth mode with a behavior-based cloud application security offering, was founded by former Imperva employees. Imperva is paying approximately $60 million for […]

The open-source Docker virtualization container project released its 0.8 release last week, for the first time providing native support for Mac OS X users. Docker is an open-source effort that takes a different approach to application virtualization than virtualization hypervisors like VMware’s ESX, Microsoft’ Hyper-V or the open-source Xen or Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) projects. […]

“A world without open source would be a pretty grim world” -Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “A community of one is not a community”-OpenDaylight Project Chairman of the Board Inder Gopal (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “We need more code that writes code”  OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee Chairman David Meyer (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)– “IE is the most […]