Speech recognition firm could help fruity firm take Siri offline
Apple’s personal assistant Siri is more than two years old, so you’d think it was high time for its parents to cut the umbilical cord.…
Monthly Archives: April 2014
SQL giant Oracle plans NoSQL standards body – top Reg sources
Database giant invites scrappy startups into its big tent, we’re told
Exclusive Database giant Oracle is attempting to create a NoSQL standards body, The Register has learned.…
One Win 8 to rule them all: Microsoft talks up ‘universal apps’ for PCs, slabs and mobes
Downloads for every screen size from single store
Build 2014 Eight months after launching its pushbutton App Studio GUI development kit for Windows Phone, Microsoft has extended the tool to include support for building apps for Windows 8, too.…
Torvalds rails at Linux developer: ‘I’m f*cking tired of your code’
Kay Sievers banished to fuming Finn’s doghouse
Never one to mince words, Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds has once again handed a verbal smackdown to a Linux developer, this time for failing to address a serious bug that could prevent systems from booting.…
Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 updates also tweak Windows Server 2012
Redmond to tame tiles for sysadmins
Microsoft made a stack of announcements last week and you could be excused for thinking they were all about Windows 8, Windows Phone and “universal apps”. But Redmond also made a few handy tweaks to Windows Server 2012 R2. It’s easy to see why the Windows Server changes have been largely ignored. And I do mean see: here’s the contents of the .ZIP file for this month’s MSDN and TechNet downloads:…
SPARC and Solaris will live until at least 2019
Oracle reveals three generations of silicon and Solaris 12 release schedule
Oracle has quietly published a roadmap for its legacy Sun SPARC and Solaris platforms.…
Oracle smacks JD Edwards help site with cease and desist order
Reference site thwacked with legal letter
Updated A JD Edwards technical reference and help site has been forced to close after being sent a cease-and-desist letter from Oracle.…
Major tech execs fling cash at heretical AI company Vicarious
Jeff Bezos + Marc Benioff + other execs + artificial intelligence = ???
Credible artificial intelligence startup Vicarious has taken in more money as accomplished billionaires fling cash towards what could be a hugely significant technology.…
Windows XP still has 27 per cent market share on its deathbed
Windows 7 making some gains on XP Death Day
Remember where you were once your patch Tuesday downloads end, because today is Windows XP death day.…
Windows XP is finally DEAD, right? Er, not quite. Here’s what to do if you’re stuck with it
Lock down and look sharp, it’s the hackers’ game now
Today will be like no other day because it’s the last Patch Tuesday for Windows XP. Yet there’s good news if you’re still using XP. For starters, you’re not alone.…