Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5.1 browser is now out with fixes for one critical zero-day vulnerability that first became public earlier this week. The zero-day flaw is a vulnerability in Firefox 3.5’s Just-in-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla’s security advisory describes the vulnerability as “an exploitable memory corruption problem.” Security researcher Simon Berry-Byrne publicly posted proof-of-concept exploit code […]

Infonetics Research is now forecasting a recovery of the telecom/datacom equipment market in 2010. Phew. While the recession officially started in the US in 2008, Infonetics is now reporting that the telecom and datacom (networking) equipment vendors they track, hit global revenues of $150 billion in 2008. That represents a year over year growth rate […]

One of the key market pillars for Google’s new Chrome OS is fact that it is targeting the netbook market. It’s a market that is growing rapidly with one forecast pegging 2009 growth of nearly 70 percent in 2009. While Linux has been a player in the netbook market since the beginning, NPD Group recently […]

The economy may have faltered, but the Internet continues growing by leaps and bounds as people keep moving online in droves — and at faster speeds. Content delivery network vendor Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) today released its Q1 2009 State of the Internet report, showing that on both a year-over-year and quarterly basis, the Internet is growing […]

What is the operating system of the cloud? Linux vendor Red Hat would like it to be Linux. But networking giant Cisco, despite working closely with Red Hat in a number of areas, may be going another direction entirely. Both Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) were busy last week with their own […]

Is there a silver lining in the cloud for Linux vendors? This week, two of the largest Linux vendors each announced new initiatives to provide commercial services for cloud customers. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is launching a new cloud certification program, while Canonical, the lead commercial vendor behind Ubuntu Linux, is launching paid support services […]

Cloud computing represents a significant opportunity for many firms across the IT landscape. Yet while enterprise networking giant Cisco is actively pursuing several different avenues for its cloud business strategy, it’s not aiming to displace existing cloud service providers like Amazon. Instead, Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) has a vision that entails playing in several other core areas […]

Download Firefox 3.5 After a year of development, Firefox 3.5 is being released by Mozilla. Firefox 3.5 includes the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which accelerates the open source browser’s performance to be as much as three time faster than the prior Firefox 3.0 release. Mozilla has also improved tab browsing, security and HTML 5 support […]

Mozilla is set to release its new Firefox 3.5 browser as early as next week after a year of development. The new release will include a number of new features, but don’t expect to see many features that were inspired by the new arrival of Google on the Web browser scene with its Chrome browser. […]

PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since 2006 and the PHP 5.2 release. PHP 5.3 […]