Our friends at Google on the other hand…
The European Commission has put Apple on the naughty step over its apparent failure to tackle costly in-app purchases. But the EU body gave Google top marks for the suggestions it put forward.…
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Kaboom: Delayed patent bomb hits SAP in the Q2 profit
Hey ho, more cloud sales it is
Sales of new software for SAP saw a minor improvement this spring while cloud grew so fast the giant has upped its estimated figures for the year.…
EU snaps on gloves, has a poke at Google’s deals with Android phone makers
El Reg cops a squint at investigatory letters
Exclusive Industry sources have confirmed to the Reg that the European Commission is once again prodding Google’s Android contracts with phone makers. Preliminary letters, sent out a month ago, merely ask the phone makers if they find anything in Google’s contracts restrictive.…
Microsoft’s anti-bug breakthrough: Wire devs to BRAIN SCANNERS
Clippy: It looks your hands are shaking, are you sure you want to commit this code?
Microsoft is developing a new approach to splatting bugs in software before they take down production systems.…
Nokia emits Windows Phone 8.1 ‘Cyan’ upgrade for Lumia gear
Finnish phones get bonus features on top of OS upgrade
Nokia is rolling out Windows Phone 8.1 as an over-the-air update that comes bundled with “Cyan,” a special feature package that’s exclusive to Lumia devices.…
Big Blue Apple: IBM to sell iPads, iPhones to enterprises
iOS/2 gear loaded with apps for big biz … uh oh BlackBerry
IBM and Apple have forged a pact to sell software to enterprises: Apple will handle support and IBM will actually sell the iPads and iPhones, which will be loaded with Big Blue’s ported apps. Oh yes.…
OpenWRT gets native IPv6 slurping in major refresh
Also faster init and a new packages system
The embedded Linux distro OpenWRT has updated native IPv6 support – allowing devices to automatically pick up an IPv6 address, as well as an IPv4 one, from an ISP if possible.…
Mozilla and Facebook snip a further five per cent from all JPEGs
New mozjpeg 2.0 flattens cats without perturbing pics
Just four months after loosing the mozjpeg encoder on a waiting world, Mozilla has updated it to version 2.0, at the same time announcing that Facebook is testing the new iteration.…
Programming languages in economics: Cool research, bro, but what about, er, economics?
Let’s just call it a runtime error
Worstall on Wednesday Ignoring the central insight and purpose of economics seems odd in an economics paper.…
Whoooah! HOW many Google Play apps did you say request ‘read SMS’ access?
Google’s app permissions far too lax – security firm survey
A security firm has criticised Android’s all-or-nothing permission approach, arguing it unnecessarily creates extra privacy risks for businesses and consumers.…