Sean Michael Kerner

Wind River is taking its technology to the sky, literally, thanks to a pair of deals announced today in the aerospace and defense sectors. The announcements come one day after the company acquired the ScopeTools Business Unit from its partner Real-Time Innovations (RTI). Galileo Avionica developed a new helicopter map generation and control system using […]

Texas Instruments’ Digital RF Processor (DRP) technology will be placed on a single chip and included in Nokia handsets, the two companies said Monday. The chip is targeted at the consumer voice market. The new chip is the end result of an initiative begun in 2002 to integrate power management, analog, SRAM , logic and […]

PalmONE CEO Todd Bradley is stepping down from the position effective at the end of February, the handheld computing company announced Monday. The current president, Ed Colligan, plans to take the role of interim CEO until a replacement is found. Bradley will stay on in an advisory role until the end of the fiscal year […]

There’s a new open source LDAP server out on the block today, courtesy of the Apache Directory Server Project. The new release brings it a step closer to becoming a full project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ApacheDS 0.8 is a Java-based LDAP server currently under incubation by the open source Apache Software Foundation […]

Compuware today debuted new versions of OptimalJ, Vantage Analyzer and DevPartner Java Edition to improve development across the company’s Java enterprise suite. The update to OptimalJ 3.2 Java enterprise development tool, which the company released at the end of last June, expands the product’s Model Driven Pattern Based (MDPB) approach to development, which allows for […]

Getting headline news sent via e-mail is a common activity that a new worm in the wild is hoping to take advantage of. Security firm Sophos this week reported the discovery of a worm that takes headlines from the CNN Web site and attempts to install a Trojan on the recipient’s PC. Sophos has called […]

HP will pay $141 million to Intergraph to settle a patent dispute that has been ongoing since 2002. The payment is expected to be made by January 28, 2005. Under the terms of the settlement, HP and Intergraph will now have a patent cross-license agreement that resolves all legal claims between the two companies. The […]

The open source AOLserver Web server project released a new update this week, enhancing the server that powers some of the most trafficked sites on the Internet today, including AOL.com. Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, AOLserver is, according to its project page, a massively scalable and extensible Web server tuned for large scale, dynamic […]

After struggling for much of last year, QLogic and Emulex finished the fourth quarter with a bang, raising hopes that the rest of the storage sector may follow. The two dominate the market for Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) , suggesting that the storage area network (SAN) market may be rebounding after a rocky […]

A new report out this week from Evans Data shows that FirebirdSQL and MySQL are the most popular open source databases currently in use. The findings are part of Evans Data’s Winter 2005 Database Development Survey of more than 400 developers. According to the survey, 52.9 percent said they are using MySQL and 51.6 percent […]

When Shawn Fanning first unleashed his Napster application on the world, some said it would destroy the music industry. Fast forward a few years and Napster has been sued, shut down, sold and now re-incarnated as a legal music downloading entity. Napster is part of business that, according to the IFPI, (the trade organization representing […]

Open source server virtualization got a boost this week with a new release from the Xen project and a new IBM commitment to help “harden” it. Xen is a virtual machine application that allows users to run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same physical box. Each OS gets its resource and partition allocation from […]