Sean Michael Kerner

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu Linux, is expanding its efforts to Apple’s iPhone. Today, Canonical announced the release of a new music streaming app for Apple’s iPhone. The Ubuntu One Music Streaming app enables users of the Ubuntu One service to stream music to iPhones. Ubuntu One got started back in 2009 as […]

The Open Invention Network (OIN) got its start in 2005 as an organization tasked with creating a patent commons to help Linux. Over the years it has grown, and in the second quarter of 2011, the organization added 35 new member companies. That number is down from the 70 new members that the OIN added […]

LAS VEGAS. There was a time when Microsoft Office documents were easily exploitable by attackers, and those days may be on the way back. According to a pair of researcher presenting at the Black Hat conference today, Microsoft Office is still at risk, despite multiple security measure taken by Microsoft and others. Taiwanese researchers Sung-ting […]

LAS VEGAS. Hacker is not a bad word. That’s the assertion of Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Program Manager, Information Innovation Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the U.S Government. Zatko delivered the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference, a stage he’s familiar with, having formerly been a well known hacker with the […]

With Google’s rapid release cycle for Chrome, some releases tend to be bigger than others. That’s the case with Chrome 13, which was officially released late Tuesday. The Chrome 13 release fixes at least 30 different security vulnerabilities and provides over 5,200 other fixes that improve the browser. In contrast, Google’s last update for Chrome […]

LAS VEGAS. Ambassador Cofer Black worked for the CIA for 28 years and was a part of U.S. intelligence establishment in the 9/11 era. Black took the stage at the Black Hat USA security conference today in a keynote about lessons learned from 9/11. In Black’s view there are similarities to the pre 9/11 world […]

 Cloud computing presents a new model for data delivery and data storage and it’s a new model that is set to soon benefit from the Ceph filesystem. The open source Ceph filesystem is a distributed filesystem that is intended to be massively scalable. The system was initially created by Sage Weil, who is also the […]

IBM is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and with it comes a whole host of other notable milestones. One such milestone is today, which marks the 100th anniversary of IBM’s first patent. IBM’s first patent was U.S. patent #998,631 and was filed on October 11, 1907 and became a granted patent on July 25th […]

The first major Linux kernel version number change since 2003 is now available, but it’s not as big a change as the number change might imply. The Linux 2.6 kernel was first released in December of 2003 and has since been followed by 39 major releases, the last being the 2.6.39 kernel that came out […]

Attachmate’s SUSE Linux division is updating their Linux appliance-making technology with a new release. SUSE Studio 1.2 includes new features as well as new branding for what was once known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit. SUSE Studio started out as an online service in 2009 and then expanded it with an on-premise version for enterprises […]

After years of reselling and rebranding gear from other networking vendors, Dell now is acquiring its own networking company. Dell announced today that it was acquiring privately-held networking vendor Force10 Networks. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. In a call with analysts, Dell executives were questioned as to why the acquisition […]

The open source Joomla Content Management System (CMS) is out today with a new release that makes the platform more secure and extensible. Joomla 1.7 provides users with an improved updating mechanism as well as an integrated approach for finding and installing extensions. The new updating system is seen by Joomla as being a tool […]