Sean Michael Kerner

U.S. telecom giant Verizon is coming under fire for allegedly violating the open source GNU General Public License (GPL). The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) yesterday filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Verizon on behalf of open source software developer BusyBox. The suit alleges that […]

It’s one thing for a vendor to claim that Linux is ready for the embedded development market. It’s quite another to have a multi-year study involving hundreds of projects and over 1,300 developers report it. Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) has revealed in a new report how effective embedded Linux has been for developers to develop […]

With a slew of security-related networking offerings under its belt, Cisco is at it again with an über-strategy to unify role-based security and identity management across a network infrastructure. The goal for the new Cisco Trusted Security effort is to provide an architecture that simplifies management and creates a framework for multiple authentication systems. The […]

Google has created one of the most powerful search tools in the history of Web humanity. One of its goals along the way was to archive all of human knowledge. Another was to not be evil. But the company discovered that at the intersection of archiving all human knowledge and not being evil is malware. […]

Millions of people rely on the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, but now some of them might not be able to access the content they want, thanks to the latest update. A bug affecting the way the browser handles the Canvas HTML element was introduced in this week’s 2.0.0.10 release. Canvas is an advanced HTML element […]

What do you do when you’re locked in a battle for network access market share with the world’s largest networking provider? If you’re Nortel, you team up with one of the world’s largest software providers. Nortel is strengthening its Microsoft integration by supporting Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) and its critical Statement of Health (SOH) […]

It’s one thing to have a lot of data to mine in a data warehouse (define). It’s quite another to actually understand how it’s being used. That’s where IBM’s new DB2 Warehouse Performance Management Suite comes in. The new release works with IBM’s recently released DB2 Warehouse 9.5 and provides enhanced tools for understanding usage. […]

For Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to be accepted by IT, it needs to be very stable and reliable — after all, in a very literal sense, ERP software runs businesses. After eight years of development and over a million downloads, the open source Compiere ERP has proven that it fits the bill for many. […]

After a grueling Alpha development period that included no fewer than nine milestone releases, the first beta of Firefox 3 is now available for testing. According to Mozilla developers, the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone fixes over 11,000 bugs and has almost 2 million lines of code changes in comparison with the current Firefox 2.x […]

What does it take to have seamless Microsoft Windows file sharing and transfer capabilities on a *nix system? According to Sun Microsystems, it takes more than just Samba (define). The company aims to follow a different approach to Windows file interoperability with its new OpenSolaris CIFS Server (define) and client applications.Though developed by Sun, the […]