Government develops own taxi app
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has found a way to out-Uber Uber, by launching a taxi-finding app of its own.…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Hey, here’s some face-tracking tech from Samsung you probably won’t find creepy at all
It’s cool! It’s fine! It’ll be open source, we swear, says chaebol
Samsung says it’ll release the source code to software that allows physically disabled people to move a mouse pointer with their eyes.…
Can’t flog software for love nor money? UK mega-reseller Softcat probably ate your lunch
UK firm hits £500m sales milestone
Unstoppable reseller juggernaut Softcat has smashed through the £500m sales barrier in the most recent fiscal year ended July, meaning it has grown for the past 36 straight quarters.…
ASA raps ‘F*CK YOU GOOGLE’ vlogger + chums over VIDEO LICKFEST
Paid tongue action nipped by adland watchdog
The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped the knuckles of video bloggers for making it unclear when they’re actually recommending something and when they’ve been paid to hawk it to unsuspecting YouTubers.…
Twitter App Graph exposes smartphone spyware feature
You don’t want everyone to compile app lists from your fondleware? BAD LUCK
App developers around the world are cursing Twitter for spilling the beans: spyware isn’t a bug on iOS or Android, it’s a feature.…
Who’s been writing in my apps? Googlilocks builds new apps-tracker
Google offers new dashboards for Work and frees Zix crypto
Google has bolstered the security of its Apps platform with new reports providing insight into the number of devices accessing the account over the past month.…
Whistling Google: PLEASE! Brussels can only hurt Europe, not us
And Commish is VERY pro-Google. Why should we worry?
+Analysis A few days ago President Obama wrote a cheque he knew he couldn’t cash – and this week the European Parliament will write another.…
NSA SOURCE CODE LEAK: Information slurp tools to appear online
Now you can run your own intelligence agency
The NSA has decided to let the public have a peek at what it’s been up to, for a change, by promising to release some of its data analysis tools under an open-source license.…
Apple seeks patent for user-configurable progress bar
Slow software will be made to ‘fess up to FAILS
Apple looks to be trying to do something about the flaky nature of software progress bars by making them user-configurable so they report when a machine has missed its estimate of the time needed to complete a task.…
You stupid BRICK! PCs running Avast AV can’t handle Windows fixes
Fix issued, fingers pointed, forums in flames
Security software outfit Avast are trying to figure out why the combination of recent Windows patches and updates to the latter company’s software are breaking PCs.…