Wobbly Gmail, Contacts, Calendar on the other hand …
A number of Google services including Gmail, Contacts, Calendars, Chat, Drive and, er, Google+ suffered a midweek sag this morning just as Brits were downing their first cups of coffee.…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Amazon rolls cloud and on-prem into single sign-on service
ActiveDirectory and Samba AWS bridge
Amazon has revealed plans to tie AWS to customers’ Earth-bound Microsoft IT estates and infrastructure using a directory service.…
Microsoft warns users about 0-day behind PowerPoint attacks
Might put out patch in update, might chuck it out sooner
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Windows using malicious PowerPoint documents, Microsoft and security firms warn.…
Microsoft promises Windows 10 will mean two-factor auth for all
Sneak peek at security features Redmond’s baking into new OS
Windows doesn’t have the best reputation for security, but Microsoft has been outlining a series of improvements in the new operating system that it believes will stymie hackers and leave corporate data more secure.…
Apple flings iOS 8.1 at world+dog: Our AMAZEBALLS 9-step installation guide
Let’s hope it’s not an 8.brick update
Apple has rolled out iOS 8.1, enabling features on the iPhone 6 and other new Apple devices.…
Redmond top man Satya Nadella: ‘Microsoft LOVES Linux’
Open-source ‘love’ fairly runneth over at cloud event
“Microsoft loves Linux” is generally not something one expects to hear, but that was one of the messages that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered at a San Francisco media event touting Redmond’s cloud offerings on Monday.…
UNIX greybeards threaten Debian fork over systemd plan
‘Veteran Unix Admins’ fear desktop emphasis is betraying open source
A group of “Veteran Unix Admins” reckons too much input from GNOME devs is dumbing down Debian, and in response, is floating the idea of a fork.…
Web developers: Special guests will give you a leg-up to Azure
Weekly webinars becoming pleasantly crowded
Promo Microsoft’s weekly Get Started with Azure webinars will be hosting a number of special guests this month.…
‘George Orwell was an OPTIMIST. Show me a search history, I’ll show you a perv or a crook’
Hm. Do optimists really have more fun?
QuoTW Google researchers came clean about a nasty little security vulnerability they discovered in SSL 3.0 this week, though not before El Reg first caught wind of it.…
Whisper chief: ‘We’re not infallible but strive to do right by our anonymous users’
ILLEGAL ACTIVITY? ‘Limited info is shared with Feds’
Whisper’s CEO Michael Heyward responded late on Saturday to claims that his company’s anonymous messaging app was quietly tracking the location of its users.…