Here you are, Angry Birds. Yes, we patented that
Google has a new, freshly approved patent up its sleeve that should get rid of a few of the gestures involved when you launch your favourite app on your locked phone.…
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Amazon opens Appstore doors to web apps
Web devs invited to cash in with JavaScript purchasing API
Amazon has begun accepting web apps and mobile-optimized websites for sale in its Amazon Appstore for Kindle and Android devices, allowing developers to market their HTML-based wares to mobile users in over 200 countries.…
Google lifts skirts, reveals Play All Access to UK market
Spotify for fandroids? Something like that, yeah
Without much fanfare, Google Play’s on-demand streaming service has launched in the UK. Google Play All Access is priced at £9.99 per month and offers mobile access … and only runs on web browsers and Android devices, for now.…
Google sniffs at MySQL fork MariaDB: Yum. Have an engineer
Keeping the DB alive outside Larry’s grasp? Sounds good to Choc Factory
Exclusive Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems.…
Apple: Of course we stalk your EVERY move. iOS 7 has a new map to prove it
Cupertino knows where you were last summer – it’s a feature
The latest beta of Apple’s new iOS 7 for iThings features a “Frequent Locations” map, showing where fanbois have been hanging out lately for those too hip to remember the happening joints.…
‘Hand of Thief’ banking Trojan reaches for Linux – for only $2K
‘Early sign of Linux becoming less secure,’ says infosec bod
Cybercrooks have created a banking Trojan that targets Linux users, which is been touted for sale on underground cybercrime forums for just $2,000 a pop.…
Cognitive computing: IBM unveils software for its brain-like SyNAPSE chips
From the firm that brought you the ‘cat brain chip’
IBM has unveiled a new computing language to help boffins better program the mad scientist brain-like silicon chips first envisaged in the first three phases of what is known at The Reg as DARPA’s “mad cat brain chip” project.…
Oracle automates master data management workflow
Governance wonks and DBAs: this module’s for you
Oracle has released a new product aimed at automating some master data management (MDM) chores.…
PayPal lets Brit ‘burb-dwellers buy stuff using their ugly mug
Lost your credit card? Just flash your face and spend, spend, spend
PayPal has launched a trial of a new payment system which will allow British shoppers to buy stuff using just their face and their pocket fondleslab.…
Web ad giant (Google) pops Adwords into Maps for iOS and Android
You didn’t think they were doing this for free, did you?
Google has finally woken up and integrated Adwords into its mobile mapping app, pushing paid results onto the top of the heap along with directions guiding customers to your door.…