Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla is out this week with its largest patch update yet for the Firefox 3.6 browser, closing the door on 14 reported security vulnerabilities, eight of which Mozilla rates as critical issues. The new Firefox 3.6.7 release comes just ahead of the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Last year, Mozilla rushed out […]

Safer surfing through virtualization? That’s the thinking behind a new offering by Dell’s Kace systems management division, which today unveiled a free, secure browser based on wrapping Mozilla’s Firefox in a virtualization shell. The Dell Kace Secure Browser works by using virtualization to isolate the browser from the underlying operating system in an attempt to […]

Seven weeks after Mozilla first announced Firefox Home for the iPhone, the open source browser maker has made good on its pledge to deliver a Firefox-synchronization app for the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. The free Firefox Home app isn’t a browser; instead, it’s intended to enable Apple mobile device […]

Mozilla is out this week with the first public beta for its next-generation open source Firefox 4 Web browser. With the latest browser update, Mozilla is adding a host of features to drive performance and support HTML5, offline storage and add-ons, while also improving the user interface over the current Firefox 3.6 release. Though the […]

IBM has snapped up endpoint system manager BigFix in a move that will see IBM’s Tivoli division gaining access to new network security and device management tools. BigFix provides technology that enables enterprises to manage endpoint security and compliance, a business that IBM (NYSE: IBM) wants to expand. “We’re making this acquisition because we have […]

The open source Hadoop project is all about providing the ability to manage and understand large datasets. Yahoo which uses Hadoop to manage 120 terabytes of data per day, this week released a new version of their edition of Hadoop but they weren’t the only ones with a new Hadoop release this week. Commercial Hadoop […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is out this week with the second major milestone for the next generation of its enterprise Linux release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), as the Linux player ramps up development for its flagship operating system. The development of RHEL 6 has been closely watched as Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) seeks […]

As enterprise and datacenter networks become increasingly large and complex, vendors and networking standards bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) are aiming to make management easier. That’s where Cisco’s FabricPath technology comes in as a sweeping new approach to network infrastructure. FabricPath is Cisco’s version of the IETF’s Transparent Interconnection of Lots of […]

Red Hat isn’t resting on its laurels after reporting strong quarterly result this week. Instead, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is launching a new cloud offering, updating its virtualization solutions and expanding its partnership with networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). Today the open source vendor announced Red Hat Cloud Foundations, a new offering that bundles together […]

The last three months have been good ones for Red Hat. The enterprise Linux vendor reported its first-quarter fiscal 2011 financial results this week, showing growth coming from all sides with Linux platform, JBoss middleware and professional services revenues up, and customers new and old expanding their spending with Red Hat. Red Hat’s earnings report […]