Sean Michael Kerner

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has approved Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core and Load and Save specifications as official W3C recommendations, a move that stamps out vestiges of the browser wars and makes way for Web interoperability. The specification means that developers will be able to deploy scripting for programs that can […]

IBM is buying Indian call center operator Daksh e-services, a deal that could help improve Big Blue’s market position as a provider of outsourced IT services to major business customers. According to reports in the Financial Times, Reuters and AP, the deal is expected to be in the $150 million to $200 million dollar range […]

It looks like embattled Linux desktop distribution Lindows may be changing the name of its flagship product and its Web site. Lindows CEO Michael Robertson revealed that a product name change is coming in his latest “Michael’s Minute” newsletter published Tuesday. At issue is the San Diego-based company’s brand, which Microsoft is too close in […]

Big names in content and software are making more moves in the Digital Rights Management (DRM) space. Media giant Time Warner has taken an investment in DRM provider Content Guard, along with Microsoft, an existing investor in the Bethesda, Maryland, based digital content company. Time Warner and Microsoft said they have purchased additional equity in […]

Asianux is starting to pick up steam in its bid to dominate the Asian Linux market. The joint venture between China’s Red Flag Software and Japan’s Miracle Linux, which was announced in January, has just released its first public beta. As part of the Asianux 1.0 public beta release announcement, the two partners also revealed […]

Red Hat’s mission to stay atop the increasingly competitive field of Linux distributors took it on a seven-city tour recently, with the company’s executives looking to win hearts, minds and even some market share in the open source movement. During a recent stop on Red Hat’s seven city tour, CEO Matthew Szulik sat for an […]

TORONTO — Early players in the open source movement and the creation of Linux distributor Red Hat found themselves taking stock of the open source movement during a Red Hat event here Tuesday. Linux visionary and founder of Red Hat, Bob Young, made a surprise appearance at a press event to join Red Hat’s CEO, […]

UPDATED: The GNOME project is expected to release version 2.6 of its open source Linux desktop Wednesday, which supporters call a major step forward in offering choice among desktop players. GNOME is one of two principal open source projects vying to be the Linux Desktop technology of choice. The other main Linux Desktop project, KDE, […]

JBoss signaled a swing into a new strategic direction for growth Monday with the announcement of a new chief financial officer, Cary Smith. Smith was named to fill the slot that had been held down by Stephen Hobbs, who was pulling double duty as CFO and controller for the company. The news comes on the […]

Employees at an Indian telecommunications conglomerate are getting a taste of something thousands of U.S. employees have become all too familar with–their jobs are being outsourced to another company. In this case, however, the IT operations at Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. aren’t immediately being sent overseas. Rather, they’re being turned over to IBM India in a […]

Looking to keep Web pages rolling along, the Apache Software Foundation has released the latest upgrade to its HTTP server. The open source foundation that is responsible for the development of the Apache said version 2.0.49 is available for download and principally serves as a bug fix release. The latest version is compatible with modules […]

T0RONTO — If the future of Wi-Fi is complete ubiquity and pervasiveness than it’s likely that Mesh architecture for wireless LANs will play a pivotal role. At least that’s what industry players in mesh technology say, especially as more municipalities and wireless groups move from Wi-Fi coverage in hot spots to deploying mesh-enabled Hot Zones, […]