Sean Michael Kerner

Paris Hilton’s phone numbers continued to be the hot search item on the Web Tuesday, as surfers hoped to get the phone numbers of dozens of Hollywood celebrities whose contact information was leaked courtesy of the socialite’s hacked T-Mobile Sidekick II device. The nature of the hack of Hilton’s Sidekick II is currently under investigation, […]

Gartner says PDA shipments are up; IDC says they’re down. Who’s right? Turns out they both have a point about the changing definitions of handheld computing devices and the market. Research firm Gartner said 2004 PDA market numbers show that shipments grew by 6.6 percent in 2004. IDC’s results said the PDA market actually declined […]

MySQL AB is continuing its march up the enterprise stack with a new subscription-based offering announced today at the LinuxWorld show in Boston. The open source database vendor also unveiled a certified partner program for the new MySQL Network at the event. “What we’re doing here is realizing that MySQL serves two widely different groups: […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is set to unveil the latest version of its flagship enterprise product (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4) at a press event this evening in Boston. The announcement will likely be accompanied by a companion announcement about a new desktop product release, as well as a long list of partners that support […]

KVM (keyboard, video, mouse switch) hardware has been a mainstay of data centers for a long time. Opengear is hoping that a new KVM over IP product announced today based on the okvm open source project will shake up that stodgy market. The CM400 console server, announced today, is targeted at SMBs and comes in […]

Wind River’s Linux initiatives are winning over developers and customers, the company said today, as it announced the availability of the Linux Edition Reference Design Release (RDR) of its Platform for Network Equipment. According to Wind River, the RDR allows customers to validate their designs for both internal use and, in some cases, for external […]

It’s a busy time at Novell, as it continues to support its “legacy” products while moving forward with its robust Linux strategy. In a series of announcements this week, and one expected next week, Novell has managed to lay out a roadmap for its future by strengthening its commitment to the past and present. Novell […]

As Linuxphiles descend on Boston for the big LinuxWorld convention scheduled to begin next week, Microsoft has issued a press release touting a pair of recent independent analyst reports that praise its indemnification initiatives. The reports from IDC and Forrester Research highlight the improvements made to Microsoft’s indemnification program last November when the company extended […]

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) released the Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition, version 3.0 (CGL 3.0) and OSDL Data Center Linux Capabilities version 1.1 (DCL 1.1). The two sets of requirements aim to further the quality and capability of Linux products for certain enterprise workloads and tasks. OSDL’s Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition, version 3.0 […]

Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista today announced a program to help it advance the penetration of Linux into the cell phone market. The Mobilinux Open Framework Program is a compilation of different mobile software components taken from different vendors all pulled into one reference architecture to produce software for a mobile Linux phone. The software components […]

Google’s mission of helping you find every scrap of information you need in life is now spread across maps. Although Google Maps is still a beta project like its notable cousins, Google News, Froogle and Google Groups, the latest offering from the search engine’s Google Labs division is already offering robust map searches. The online […]

Microsoft’s acquisition of anti-virus vendor Sybari sent shares of competing players down Tuesday on news that Microsoft was entering the security space. But at least one security software provider said it is ready to compete with Microsoft via Redmond’s purchase of Sybari. Gene Hodges, the president of anti-virus and security software firm McAfee , said […]