Sean Gallagher

A year after launching its Java.com Web site, Sun Microsystems Inc. is still searching for new ways to turn the Java brand into gold with consumers. If the company has its way, “Java Powered” logos will soon start appearing on everything from mobile phones to microwaves. Perhaps the most outlandish move in Suns consumer branding […]

On the same day that Microsoft released seven new security bulletins for the Windows operating system, four new “extremely critical” vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer Web browser were announced Tuesday by a Denmark-based computer security firm. The vulnerabilities discovered by Secunia arent based on errors in the code of IE, according to Jerry Brady, chief […]

The recent rash of security problems related to Windows-based Web browsers has led some to ask if the browsers themselves are to blame—or is Windows itself just not safe? First, Microsofts Internet Explorer was found to be vulnerable to a number of potential attacks from a Web page. While many of the recently discovered attacks […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems has focused a lot of attention on its newly open-sourced Looking Glass three-dimensional user interface here at the JavaOne Conference. But a pair of technologies that Sun quietly released as open source last week will have a much more immediate effect on the success of Java on the desktop. Last week, Sun […]

SAN FRANCISCO— Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs turned the spotlight on search Monday when he demonstrated a new content indexing and search engine slated for Mac OS X 10.4, a k a “Tiger.” During his keynote presentation for this weeks Worldwide Developer Conference here, Jobs took the wraps off the new technology, titled Spotlight, […]

Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement on Wednesday that it will open-source the Solaris operating system is the latest push in an effort that began over four years ago. Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz confirmed that the company would open the Solaris source code at the SunNetwork Conference in Shanghei, China. “I dont want […]

Before I begin what will undoubtedly sound like another one of those Mac-o-phile rants in defense against anti-Apple sacrilege, let me first make full disclosure. I am, generally speaking, operating system- and processor-agnostic. Ive seen many who dedicated their careers to a specific technology base wind their way to obscurity and underemployment. For example, you […]

ISPs have diffused most of the potential for large-scale DoS (denial of service) attacks based on the “flaw” in the TCP reported yesterday. But that doesnt mean that network managers should be totally unconcerned about it. The TCP flaw allows an attacker to reset an existing TCP session by sending a Syn (synchronization) packet that […]

While word of a major vulnerability in the fabric of the Internet leaked out a bit sooner than folks at the Department of Homeland Security would have liked, there isnt a whole lot to panic about. The threat posed by an exploit of the TCP has already been addressed where it matters most—at the core […]

Will open source become the predominant development model for software? “Its just a matter of time,” Lotus founder Mitch Kapor told an audience of software developers this morning. The audience of more than 300 was gathered at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., for PyCon, a conference organized by volunteers from the Python community. The […]