Hands on with the preview tools for the UAP
First Look Microsoft has released preview tools for the Windows 10 Universal App Platform (UAP), giving developers their first opportunity to try and build new-style Windows apps.…
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Facebook’s CALL CENTRE KILLER: Biz apps will glide into your inbox
Using the phone ‘doesn’t feel like the future’ says Zuck in Messenger revamp
F8 2015 Facebook is giving businesses a boost in its Messenger app, with new features aimed at making companies and brands first-class citizens on the social network.…
Facebook welcomes THINGS to its network with Parse IoT push
New SDKs link devices, mobile apps
F8 2015 Facebook was founded with the goal of connecting people online, but on Wednesday the company said it is branching out into connecting stuff, too.…
Facebook hopes devs will ‘Like’ how mobile SDKs, Graph API have scrubbed up
First major rev in two years improves logins, sharing
F8 2015 Facebook has used the occasion of its F8 developer conference in San Francisco this year to roll out a major update to its software development kits for Android and iOS, in addition to a new version of the API for accessing its social graph data.…
When will ROBOTS start chatting on WhatsApp? Don’t hold your breath, says co-founder
Gab service has ‘no plans’ for developer APIs
F8 2015 As much as developers might want WhatsApp to publish APIs to allow other software to access its popular chat service, the Facebook subsidiary has no plans to do so.…
And the prize for LEAST SECURE BROWSER goes to … Chrome!
Beats Solaris, flattens Gentoo
More vulnerabilities were reported in Chrome last year than any other core software according to research which also found 2014 clocked record numbers of zero day flaws.…
Google throws a 180 on its plans for Dart language
Would-be JavaScript replacement will now compile into JavaScript
Back in 2013, Google felt the Dart language deserved a native virtual machine baked into Chrome, because it felt JavaScript couldn’t deliver the speed it craves. It therefore started the process of getting Dart turned into a standard to help things along.…
Hey, Woz. You’ve got $150m. You’re kicking back in Australia. What’s on your mind? Killer AI
Super-clever computers will discard us puny mortals, apparently
Old-school computer whiz Steve Wozniak is afraid an emergence of an artificial super-intelligence will be very bad news for the human race.…
Joyent’s Triton ships Docker containers on cloudy bare metal
‘Container native’ infrastructure does away with VMs
Cloud outfit Joyent has launched Triton, a new software and service offering that provides what Joyent describes as “container native infrastructure,” where the Linux container – not a server or a VM – is the atomic unit of hosting.…
Apple is picking off iOS antivirus apps one by one: Who’ll be spared?
Some slain in the software store, some survive – but why?
Confusion reigns over whether or not Apple is really pulling all iOS antivirus apps from its online software store. One leading developer says yes, another says no, and Apple is keeping schtum.…