Sean Michael Kerner

The Allseen Alliance, which is an Internet of Things (IoT) Linux Foundation Collaboration project, was launched in December of 2013. But it was missing one key element — a definitive patent policy. Now at long last in January 2015, the AllSeen Alliance has defined a patent policy for Intellectual Property (IP), which will come into […]

The cloud is big business, just ask Big Blue. IBM reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2014 earnings on January 20, with the cloud being a big driver of growth. For the fourth quarter, IBM reported $24.1 billion in revenue from its continuing operations, down 12 percent on a year-over-year basis. For the full fiscal 2014 […]

Intel’s fiscal 2014 was its best year ever, reporting record revenue as the silicon vendor continues to push into new markets as well as continuing to grow the PC market. For the fourth quarter of 2014, Intel reported revenue of $14.7 billion, up by six percent year-over-year. For the full 2014 fiscal year, Intel’s revenue […]

If there is strength in numbers, there is a whole lot of strength in the open source movement for Internet of Things technology. On January 14, the IoTivity open source project announced a preview release of of its technology that is being developed as a Linux Foundation Collaboration Project. The Linux Foundation is also the […]

In the world of U.S patents, one company stands alone. For the last 22 years, IBM has been granted more U.S patents than anyone else and 2014 was no exception. In 2014, IBM was issued 7,534 U.S. patents, dramatically outpacing every other technology vendor. In second place for 2014 U.S patents was Samsung, with 4,952 […]

The AllSeen Alliance today announced new initiatives and momentum in its bid to help advance standards for the emerging landscape that is the Internet of Things (IoT). The AllSeen Alliance is a multi-stakeholder effort that is operated as a Linux Foundation Collaboration project. The Linux Foundation first announced the AllSeen Alliance effort in December 2013, […]

In 2014, open source technology came under a heavy barrage of criticism as a result of high-profile security vulnerabilities. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux and its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, has a very different view and remains a stalwart defender of the open source model for software development and security. In a video […]

Google has taken several steps this week to improve the security of its Gmail application and Chrome web browser. Gmail is set to support Content Security Policy (CSP) and has also published preliminary code for end-to-end email encryption. Content Security Policy (CSP) is an idea that has been around since at least 2010, when Mozilla […]

The Cloud Foundry Foundation officially launched today as a non-profit effort that will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Cloud Foundry is an open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) project that was originally started by VMware in 2011 and then spun out to VMware’s sister company Pivotal. The new Cloud Foundry Foundation benefits from the support […]

HP reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2014 earnings on November 25, showing mixed trends across its business units and the company heads for a split in the coming year. For the fourth quarter, HP reported revenue of $28.4 billion for a two percent year-over-year decline. For the full fiscal 2014 year, revenue came in at […]