Sean Michael Kerner

The Eclipse Foundation is one of the key open source development communities. Its namesake IDE, according to a recent study, is widely used and expected to gain share. But Eclipse is much more than just an IDE. The Eclipse Foundation’s recent Callisto event marked the release of no fewer than 10 different Eclipse platform projects, […]

UPDATED: IBM has won a minor battle in its legal war with SCO over alleged misappropriated portions of Unix code. Judge Brooke Wells of U.S. District Court Central Division District of Utah has issued a ruling in favor of IBM granting its motion to limit SCO’s claims in part. The dispute between IBM and SCO […]

Microsoft  has released its third and likely final beta for its next generation Internet Explorer 7 Web browser. Earlier this month Microsoft confirmed to internetnews.com that a third IE beta was in fact on its way. The third beta includes numerous security, compatibility and stability fixes over the last beta release, which came out of […]

It’s not every day that a potential security risk emerges that could affect both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers. But it is today. Reports abound of a flaw that exists in both browsers that could allow for unintended information disclosure that could put users at risk. Security researcher Plebo Aesdi Nael first […]

The latest version of Apple’s operating system includes the usual security updates, networking improvements and bug fixes. It may well be the last update before the company releases its next big OS. One security fix in Mac OS X 10.4.7 addresses information disclosure in the AppleShare File Protocol (AFP). AFP could have allowed unauthorized users […]

A new study by code analysis firm Klocwork has discovered new flaws in open source programs that previous scans by a Department of Homeland Security-sponsored study did not. Apparently, the open source projects in question were notified by Klocwork of their results, but at least one open source vendor disputes the claim. Klocwork, which this […]

Integrated Development Environments, referred to by the acronym IDE , are the cornerstones of application development. Every wondered which one is the best? A new study from Evans Data of over 1,200 developers worldwide may shed some light on that answer. Evans’ study ranked the top 11 IDEs, including Adobe/Macromedia Studio 8, Borland Delphi, Borland […]

You’ve all heard about malware writers targeting Web browsers. But have you ever heard of a browser that intentionally inserts malware onto a user’s PC? That’s exactly what security firm PandaLabs alleges the freely available Browsezilla Web browser does. Browsezilla developers dispute the allegation. Browsezilla, is quite obviously trying to capitalize on the Mozilla name […]

There are many software projects in both the proprietary and open source communities that don’t keep their release schedules. Eclipse is not one of them. In keeping with its release record, the Eclipse Foundation this week will release 10 projects right on schedule. It’s such a huge undertaking that Eclipse branded it Callisto. Callisto involves […]

The LAMP stack, which consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python, is a standard application stack for open source Web 2.0 developers. It’s not so standard, apparently, when it comes to enterprise deployments where J2EE (now Java EE) lives. That may be on the verge of changing, if Peter Yared, a former CTO at Sun […]

The antivirus software business is big and it’s only getting bigger. Gartner numbers illustrate the market reaped $4 billion dollars worth of business in 2005, a 14 percent jump over the year before. Three vendors benefit the most from that growth, representing 86 percent of the market’s revenues, but that’s about to change. Symantec accounts […]

In case you’re one of the millions of Americans who don’t follow soccer, the U.S. lost its World Cup bid to the small African nation of Ghana yesterday. And a record-breaking number of people watched it happen online. ESPN streamed the game live with the help of content delivery network provider Akamai . Akamai said […]