Sean Michael Kerner

Oracle and Red Hat are extending their Linux partnership into Asia with a new $13 million dollar initiative in Singapore, the two companies said on Wednesday. The first joint Oracle/Red Hat Linux Enterprise Applications Porting (LEAP) Center is designed to be a hub for the region to help assist Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and systems […]

Numerous reports, surveys and statistics have shown increasing numbers of fraudulent online phishing activity involving financial information and credit cards. MasterCard International has decided that enough is enough and today announced a new initiative to fight the phishers. MasterCard joined forces with digital fraud detection company NameProtect in a new anti-identity theft initiative that aims […]

Supercomputers are a lot more super than they were just six months ago. According to the latest and 23rd edition of the TOP500 list, the number of supercomputers with greater than 1 teraflop processing power jumped by 86 percent to 242, up from 130 six months ago. The list of top computers gives IBM bragging […]

Few industries have the same demands for high availability and scalable services as telecommunications providers, which helps define the term “carrier grade” in the industry. Now, the Open Source Development Labs’ (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) working group which counts 22 member companies, is flagging its effort to bring Linux into that elite designation. Carrier […]

After meeting with its top 300 suppliers, the U.S.’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, said it will expand its RFID roll-out faster than expected. Wal-Mart has been working towards a self-imposed January 2005 deadline to RFID-enable its North Texas operation, along with 100 of its suppliers. The first full-scale operational test began on April 30th. Today […]

It should come as no surprise that the Linux industry has been targeting the government sector. In a string of wins for the open source operating system, Munich, Germany, and Bergen, Norway, both announced that they would be officially migrating to Linux. The Indian city of Bangalore may not be far behind, as IBM announced […]

Internet protocol security for Linux got a boost today from Novell, which announced that it would be officially sponsoring and contributing to the Openswan open source project. Corporate enterprises and others widely use the standard — commonly known as IPsec — as a standard security measure for virtual private networks (VPNs) and it is usually […]

UPDATED: As distributed platform host provider Akamai scrambled to manage the fallout from a brief outage that hit some Web hosting customers Tuesday, a DNS expert argued that global domain name servers are not at risk. In a statement Wednesday, Akamai called the distributed denial of service attack that hit its network Tuesday “sophisticated” and […]

Shares of Linux distributor Red Hat were on the mend Wednesday after a two-day selloff in the wake of CFO Kevin Thompson’s abrupt resignation Monday. In midday trading, shares were up by over 3 percent to $22.75 after sliding 9 percent Tuesday amid heavy volume. The resignation of the company’s CFO, just days before its […]

With so much news surrounding SCO related to its various legal battles over Linux, it’s sometimes easy to forget that they are still a UNIX-based company. Today SCO officially announced a barrage of new products that are intended to combat Linux and help the company regain market share. SCO announced updates to both its UnixWare […]

Creating a freely obtainable and easily deployed hotspot is a bit more involved than getting a coat hanger and putting some tin foil around it — though it hardly needs to be more expensive. In my overview of open source hotspot tools, I briefly touched on Public IP’s ZoneCD. The two paragraphs that I had […]

Major ISPs are poised to dominate the market for Voice over IP services over the next three years and could grab up to 30 percent of the residential voice market, a new study says. But VoIP offerings still suffer from inferior sound quality and reliability, according to a research report issued by Mercer Management Consulting. […]