They’re OPENLY doing it, too

Almost half of the world’s enterprise IT managers openly admit to using pirated software at work – at least a survey from a software industry association says so.…

Rimini Street: We’ll have your large and mid-sized customers off you, ta

Rimini Street, the fast-growing business software support specialist currently fighting Larry Ellison’s database giant in US courts, appears to have SAP in its sights in Europe.…

Two hours of that spent on hold reporting problem

Microsoft has fixed a nine-hour outage in its online Exchange service that crippled North American customers’ Office 365 and hosted Outlook accounts.…

Profile left open in burglary victim’s home, man logs into jail

A suspect is languishing in jail after allegedly breaking into a house, logging into Facebook on his victim’s PC, and then reportedly obligingly leaving his social network profile up and open for the returning homeowner.…

Plus: What’s this Tail-F thing Cisco’s got hold of?

Lick of paint for Android, car control and more

Google I/O  Google has kicked off its annual developer conference with a three-hour keynote in which the search kingpin explained where it’s taking Android next: namely, your wrist, your car, your living room, and beyond.…

Dependency hell by-the-numbers

Dependency errors aren’t just the bane of Linux users living the configure-make-install life: they also have a significant impact on developer productivity that could be dealt with in the tools developers use.…

The cost of running virtual appliances may just have gone up

VMware has posted an End of Availability Announcement for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).…

The empire strikes back with multi-dimensional arrays

With the growing popularity of big-data tools like NoSQL databases and Hadoop, it might have looked like SQL could be in line to be moved on from “venerable” tag to “obsolete”, but last week, the ISO SQL working group agreed to start work on SQL/MDA (multi-dimensional array) specs.…

Android devices will be living in a ‘Material’ world

Google has unveiled a new look for the next version of Android, Android L, dubbed “Material Design”. So what, you ask? Well, Android runs on around 70 per cent of the world’s smartphones.…