Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla’s open source Firefox Web browser is used today by over 6 million Apple Mac users. To date, Mozilla has supported Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 for both Firefox 3.5 and for the recently released Firefox 3.6, though not all three Mac OS versions are likely to be supported under Firefox’s next major […]

An open source app store from a Linux vendor is a good idea, right? As it turns out, Linux vendors selling their open source partners solutions directly isn’t always a recipe for success. Just ask Red Hat, or its rival Novell. In 2007, Red Hat launched an effort called the Red Hat Exchange (RHX), a […]

With Firefox 3.6 now out the door, what new features are coming next for Mozilla’s open source browser? Starting with Firefox 3.6, Mozilla developers are now set to more rapidly iterate and integrate features as part of its ‘Lorentz’ branch. With Lorentz, Mozilla developers are aiming to include new features faster while maintaining backwards compatibility […]

To date, Novell has had strong usage of its online SUSE Studio Linux appliance development service, with over 250,000 software appliances built. Even with that success, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) sees a need to expand the effort with a new SUSE Appliance Toolkit providing an on-premises version of SUSE Studio, as well as a new Lifecycle […]

One of the key items that Google’s Chrome browser had lacked since its first release in September 2008 was an extensions system for add-ons. It’s an omission that has now been corrected with the release of Chrome 4 today for Windows. Linux and Macintosh versions of Chrome 4 stable are not yet available. Chrome 4 […]

The move towards a fully Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) system took a step forward today. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has announced the first four countries that have completed a key milestone in the IDN process — an effort to expand domain names to support non-Latin alphabets. Arabic and Cyrillic are […]

The saga of Oracle’s $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which started back in April 2009, is near its end. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that the European Commission has finally provided it with unconditional regulatory approval to acquire Sun. The Europeans had held up the acquisition for months over concerns about how the open […]

Apple has released its first security fixes of 2010 for Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6, addressing a number of fixes in third-party code that Apple uses as part of its operating system. One of those third-party items is Adobe’s Flash Player plug-in, which is being updated to version 10.0.42 for Mac OS. Adobe’s software, including […]

Can video delivered over a wireless networking connection be as good as video coming from a wired network? That’s the challenge that networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) now is trying solve with new technology called VideoStream. With VideoStream Cisco is aiming to enable enterprises to deliver HD quality video to multiple wireless end points. VideoStream is […]

Like many other sectors of the economy, the market for unified communications in 2009 was not a great one, though the future is looking bright. Infonetics Research has released a new report which forecasts worldwide revenues for the unified communication market will drop by four percent in 2009, but will rise by more than 100 […]

Though New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are often thought of as fast-moving cities, none of them are among the top ten fastest cities in America when it comes to broadband. Instead, if you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed, you’ll have to move to the state […]

In many enterprises today, social networking services and tools — including Facebook and Twitter — are used by employees, though often without any oversight from IT. Now networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is becoming the latest to warn that the lack of IT involvement poses problems that enterprises need to address. Cisco’s analysis comes as […]