Floats exam program to help IT employers lock up talent
LinuxCon 2014 The Linux Foundation on Wednesday introduced two new certification programs aimed at connecting employers with qualified Linux administrators and engineers.…
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Storage, chip slingers pledge allegiance to Linux, open source
Linux Foundation swells ranks, coffers
LinuxCon 2014 As LinuxCon 2014 kicks off this week in Chicago, the Linux Foundation has announced that it has won new support from across the technology industry, including several hardware companies.…
EnterpriseDB chucks devs free tools to craft NoSQL web apps with PostgreSQL
Prebuilt AWS image comes with all you need preconfigured
Enterprise-class PostgreSQL database vendor EnterpriseDB has launched a free turnkey development environment designed to make it easier for coders to build web applications using PostgreSQL’s new NoSQL capabilities.…
Eat up Martha! Microsoft slings handwriting recog into OneNote on Android
Freehand input on non-Windows kit for the first time
Microsoft has announced improvements to the mobile versions of its OneNote note-taking software, aimed particularly at those who prefer to do their jotting with a pen, rather than a keyboard.…
Intel’s Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows
Behold the Internet of Things. Wintel Things
Windows fans can run their OS of choice on Intel’s counter to Raspberry Pi, courtesy of an Intel firmware update.…
HANA has SAP cuddling up to ‘smaller partners’
Wanted: algorithm wranglers, not systems giants
Think “SAP and partners” and the mind goes to mega names – giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Fujitsu, Accenture and Deliotte.…
Reg man grills HP Software big cheese
Youngjohns reveals plan to harden up software sales
Traditionally HP Software was seen by many of its business partners on the hardware side of the house – and by default some of their customers – as a fragmented portfolio of specialist applications amassed via acquisition.…
Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game
What SHOULD Microsoft call its browser?
Internet Explorer could be getting a new name as Microsoft tries to escape the browser’s troubled past.…
Twitter displays our ‘Favorites’. That is, like, PRIVATE, huff naive users
Tests feature to hoover up more ad cash
Twitter has begun messing with its design by showing “Favorited” tweets in its timeline, much to the annoyance of some of the micro-blogging site’s users.…
Google straps on Jetpac: An app to find hipsters, women in foreign cities
Choc Factory slurps Instagram-trawling social travel app
Google has bought Jetpac, an image-recognition app that uses Instagram photos to help travelers find what they’re looking for in cities – women or hipster moustaches, for example.…