Another month of nasty numbers for Microsoft
Windows XP’s demise is finally starting to accelerate, but Windows 7 and not 8 appears to be picking up the slack.…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
‘Big data’ predicts stock movements, boffins claim
Google Trends is better than a dart board at stock-watching
Researchers from the Warwick University’s business school reckon they can predict the next crash, by watching Google searches and Wikipedia.…
Microsoft hacks out new EMET, spits out Adobe Flash
Version 5.0 of friendly sniffer given more acute nose
Microsoft has emitted a new version of EMET – its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.…
Surfing the web from Android? We KNEW it – sorry, iOS fanbois
About time too: fandroids dominate in buying devices
Google’s Android has slipped past Apple’s iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time, in terms of online usage.…
Factory-fresh delivery: Get your OpenSUSE fix daily
Milestone builds are for fat and buggy software projects
Open-sourcers running OpenSUSE’s development have adopted a browser-based model of development for their beloved distro.…
What’s that? A PHP SPECIFICATION? Surely you’re joking, Facebook
Zuck’s engineers unveil formal spec based on PHP 5.6
A group of Facebook developers has decided to break with 20 years of tradition and release a formal specification for the PHP programming language.…
Quicker, easier to fly to MOON than change web standards … OR IS IT?
Snail’s pace system might be forced to speed up
Programming the Web, Pt. II It took the United States eight years to put a man on the Moon. That was time between John F Kennedy’s call to Congress in 1961 and Neil Armstrong getting his boots dirty on the lunar surface, in July 1969 – 45 years ago this month.…
BlackBerry lands feature-light BBM on Windows Phone
Solid port, but Beta lacks vid chat and other extras
The wait for BBM on Windows Phone is over. BlackBerry has brought its pioneering and much-imitated messaging app to Windows, following launches on Android and iOS last year, albeit with the “Beta” label.…
Microsoft: IE11 for Windows Phone 8.1 is TOO GOOD. So we’ll cripple it like Safari
Grudgingly supports quirky features so sites look right
The forthcoming Windows Phone 8.1 Update will include plenty of tweaks and fixes for Internet Explorer 11, and while many of them are designed to improve the browser’s web standards compliance, Redmond says others are designed to do exactly the opposite.…
What the FLOCK? Addictive ‘Flappy Bird’ is back – and it’s coming for your family
What a time to be alive
Pic Infuriating yet stupidly popular crapp Flappy Bird has officially returned, it appears – and it’s now a multi-player game called Flappy Birds Family. It’s available for free for Amazon’s set-top box, the Android-based Fire TV.…