Doesn’t much like Apple or Google, either
The world’s about to get a new operating system, if reports out of China are correct: the Middle Kingdom hopes to kick off its own operating system in October 2014.…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Microsoft parts Azure cloud, reveals NoSQL doc database
We’re not in a relational world anymore, Dorothy
Microsoft has slipped out DocumentDB for Windows Azure, the company’s first-ever non-relational database – and its first new database product since SQL Server.…
Red Hat: ARM servers will come when people crank out chips like AMD’s 64-bit Seattle
Standards to lift data center boxes out of device doldrums
LinuxCon 2014 It’s practically a given that the ARM processor architecture – so beloved by makers of small devices everywhere – will graduate to servers soon. But before ARM servers can ship in any significant volume, a standardized hardware platform that specifically targets the data center is a must.…
Cheapo Firefox OS mobes to debut in India – definitely not one for selfie-conscious users
Spicephone hopes Fire One Mi-FX 1 will heat up the market
The Mozilla Foundation’s aim to create a Firefox OS for mobile devices was not to take a quixotic tilt at the top end of the smartphone market. Instead, it hoped to provide an alternative that would enable the delivery of low-cost, but still smart, devices to places where smartphones are still a significant purchase.…
Microsoft, Google link arms on browser vid chat
ORTC: Skype without, ummm, Skype?
A standard proposal to get voice/video chats into standard browsers has brought Microsoft and Google onto the same side of the table.…
Linux duo land $54m VC Xamarin cash bag
A ‘pretty strong signal,’ says CEO
Two leading lights in open source and mobile have landed $54m in funding for their company.…
Microsoft refuses to nip ‘Windows 9’ unzip lip slip
Look at the shiny Windows 8.1, why can’t you people talk about 8.1, sobs an exec somewhere
Microsoft is putting on its poker face amid growing rumors it will officially unveil “Windows 9” at the end of next month.…
Obama’s healthcare.gov savior says: ‘No suits please, we’re techies’
Mikey Dickerson plans change in move from Google to running government IT
The incoming head of the newly formed US Digital Service – a crack sysadmin force to fix government IT systems – has said his team are focused less on looking smart and more on serious coding.…
ARM64 gets better GPU support in CUDA release
CUDA 6.5 eyes HPC market
NVIDIA has launched the next upgrade to its parallel computing and programming platform, with CUDA 6.5 going live as a production release.…
Look, no client! Not quite: the long road to a webbified Vim
Building in the browser
Programming the Web, Pt. III The most revolutionary aspect of all the changes that have taken place in web development over the last two decades has been in the web browser.…