Add 50, 1964 GIVING AnniversaryCobol is the language most associated with mainframes, especially the IBM System 360 whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated or at least commemorated this week. But when COBOL was first spawned in the mid-1950s, it wasn’t intended for programmers.…
Upstart database MongoDB has reached its 2.6 release armed with technologies that its backing company says represent “a foundation for the next decade of database innovation.”…
Google is making a push to get its Glass headsets into the workplace with a new program, “Glass at Work”, to entice coders to build enterprise applications for companies wanting to get into the wearable computing platform.…
Citrix and Google have announced a cut-price deal to pipe legacy apps into Chromebooks.…
You wouldn’t expect Steve Ballmer to shout “iPad, iPad, iPad” at his staff, but that’s exactly what the perspiring madman might have yelled ahead of the release of Office for iOS.…
After months of slowly inflating expectations, Microsoft recently released its follow-up act to Windows 8.1 – the Windows 8.1 Update.…
A social network with a difference launched last week. The website, Euan’s Guide, is a kind of TripAdvisor for the disabled and was created by a motor neurone disease sufferer.…
Microsoft has suspended distribution of April’s Windows 8.1 Update to some enterprise customers after a bug was discovered that could bork affected machines’ ability to receive future updates.…
The Australian State of Queensland does not observe daylight saving and an old joke about the state says that air travellers entering the region have in the past been advised to “turn your watch back one hour and 50 years.”…