VCs bet on Oracle’s demise
Upstart database firm Couchbase has pulled in $60m in filthy valley lucre to help the company take business away from Oracle and IBM.…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
App maker defends selling S.F. parking spots as a FREE SPEECH issue
MonkeyParking deals in information, argues CEO – bull, says District Attorney’s office
The head of embattled app-maker MonkeyParking says the city of San Francisco is violating the US Constitution by ordering the company to shut down its parking application.…
You want a medal for writing a script? Sure: here it is!
Developer explains how Perl and Excel code earned him the US Army Commendation Medal
Software engineer and Arizon Army National Guard member Vivin Paliath has explained how writing some Perl and Excel macros saw him decorated with the Army Commendation Medal, a decoration awarded “to any member of the Armed Forces who distinguishes himself or herself by heroism, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service.”…
‘Our entire corporation cannot send or receive emails from Outlook’
Plus: ‘We’ve seen… a double-digit decline in trust in American tech companies’
Quotw This was the week when Microsoft’s top legal eagle said the fallout from the NSA snooping scandal was only getting worse for US tech companies.…
Spanish struggle to control spelling of ‘WhatsApp’
Wasap? Linguistic anarchy, that’s guasap
Spanish is an accommodating lingo, as the recent influx of tech and net-related Anglicisms attests, but these foreign invaders often prove challenging for Castillian orthography.…
Apple abruptly axes Aperture … Adobe anxiously awaits arrivals
Lightroom holdouts left with little choice as photo software gets cut
Apple is reportedly ending development of its Aperture photo-tweaking software.…
What’s it like using the LG G smartwatch and Android Wear? Let us tell YOU
Smartwatch or dumb idea?
First look Wearable computing has been generating a lot of buzz ever since Pebble and others kickstarted the market last year and now the world’s most popular smartphone OS builder has skin in the game and serious hardware partners.…
Web collab outfit Assemblage becomes Cisco’s latest appendage
WebRTC for peasants, telepresence for suits
Cisco’s vision for the enterprise might still be telepresence and $US1,500 Android tablets, but The Borg is at least prepared to consider that some people might want their collaboration to come as cheaply as possible.…
Google’s Quickoffice taken behind shed … ‘Oh, what’s the gun for?’
Docs, Sheets, Slides to replace standalone productivity suite
Quickoffice, Google’s Microsoft Office–compatible productivity app for Android and iOS, is no more – sort of.…
Using Android 4.3? Don’t let malware snatch your private login keys
Bad news: One in ten devices suffer KeyStore flaw. Good news: It’s hard to exploit
If you’re one of the 10.3 per cent of Android users running version 4.3, aka Jelly Bean, your login keys are at risk of theft – thanks to a vulnerability in the operating system’s KeyStore software.…