Sean Michael Kerner

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, is on a mission to raise $32 million in 30 days, to build 40,000 Ubuntu Edge next-generation smartphones. It’s an effort that just received the backing of financial news media giant Bloomberg LP. Will other enterprises buy into the effort? Read the full […]

Google’s Android mobile operating system has emerged to become a dominant force in the smartphone landscape. Sitting at the core of Android is Linux as well as a long list of open-source technologies. Many people mistakenly think that Android itself is all open source, but the harsh reality is that from a usable handset perspective, […]

The Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager is getting a scalability boost, and the vendor has also unveiled a net new product, the RealPresence Video DualManager 400. John Antanaitis, VP of Product and Solutions Marketing at Polycom, told Enterprise Networking Planet that the RealPresence Video DualManager 400, a video conferencing management platform, sits on a Dell PowerEdge […]

For almost as long as there have been Web browsers, there have been Web browser mechanisms to help users store passwords for the sites they visit. The benefit of the password managers is ease of use for users, but inevitably in my experience, at one point or another, those browser-based password management systems fail in […]

The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is out this week with the Flex 4.10.0 update, which I consider to be a major new release of the Flex project. Flex is what was once referred to as an RIA (rich Internet application) Framework, and it enables developers to build modern expressive Websites, leveraging Adobe’s Flash technology. […]

Twitter is aiming to improve security for its users with an improved two-factor log-in verification system that goes beyond the SMS-based system that the company first deployed two months ago. Security experts eWeek spoke with have mixed opinions on whether Twitter’s latest attempt at user security will really make a difference. Two-factor authentication refers to […]

IBM is expanding its Flex Server lineup with three new POWER 7+ server designs as well as a new double-density x86 Flex System server. On the POWER side, the new p260, p270 and p460 Flex Server systems are all updated or newer versions of servers that IBM already has on the market. “We have been […]

Approximately two and a half years ago, Tor (The Onion Router) Web anonymity project announced that was was going to build its own Web browser, to be known as the Tor Browser. The Tor network provides a way for users to anonymize their online activities by running data packets through a number of “onion routers” […]

This week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Fellow at the Linux Foundation, declared that the recent Linux 3.10 kernel release that first debuted at the end of June will be a long-term kernel release. A long-term Linux kernel release is maintained by Kroah-Hartman for up to two years. In contrast, a non-long-term kernel release is no longer […]

Mozilla is also aiming to make Web browsing safer by way of the Mixed Content blocker that is now in the Firefox 23 release. Mixed Content refers to the common, but ill-advised practice among some Web developers of including both HTTP and secured HTTPS traffic on the same Web page. The risk is that the […]

The Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, which ran from July 30 to Aug. 4 in Las Vegas, stand alone in the pantheon of security events in any given calendar year. No other pair of security conferences tends to generate as much buzz, fear, uncertainty and doubt, as security researchers take aim at the flaws […]

It should come as no surprise that the YouTube generation of workers expect more video in their work. The new 2013 Cisco Global Young Executives’ Video Attitudes Survey confirms the belief that young execs want video and details why and how they use it. The study surveyed 1,315 global IT respondents under the age of […]