Ceasefire called in anti-Android skirmish
Google has reportedly laid to rest its long-running squabble with zombie patent supertroll Rockstar, although terms of the settlement were not disclosed.…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Nexus 7 fandroids tell of salty taste after sucking on Google’s Lollipop
Web giant looking into why version 5.0 of Android is crippling older slabs
People with Nexus 7 tablets say the latest major Android update – codenamed Lollipop – has slowed their slabs to a standstill. Google said today it is investigating the matter.…
Roll up, roll up, Microsoft’s rolled up dozens of OS fixes
Linux VMs over 2TB now possible and Cloud Platform gets a scaled-up cleanup
Microsoft’s just released its November rollup of product fixes to address issues that go back to April 2014.…
Google releases ‘Divide’ to conquer mobile devices, messaging
Chocolate Factory already good at division: review scores for gCal have gone OFF A CLIFF
Google has quietly released something called “Divide”, the fruits of an acquisition it made back in May.…
Ceph-starter Suse to enter software-defined storage market
Linux vendor aims to take on EMC with commodity storage
Linux vendor Suse has kicked off this year’s SuseCon in Orlando, Florida by announcing that it’s getting into the software-defined storage business, starting early next year.…
Microsoft adds video offering to Office 365. Oh NOES, you’ll need Adobe Flash
Lovely presentations… but not on your Flash-hating mobe
Microsoft has added a video portal to Office 365, enabling users to upload and share videos. The service will be in preview soon, and available to all customers with the right kind of subscription in early 2015.…
Mozilla waves goodbye to Google’s megabucks, makes Yahoo! Search the Firefox default in US
Five-year deal includes early access to new search UI
Mozilla has ended its ten-year relationship with Google and will instead make Yahoo! the default search engine for the open source Firefox browser in the US, both on the desktop and on mobile devices.…
Bug fixes! Get your APPLE BUG FIXES! iOS and OS X updates right here!
Yosemite fixes Wi-Fi hiccup, older iOS devices get performance boost
Apple is swatting at bugs with updates to its OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 platforms.…
Nokia’s N1 fondleslab’s HIDDEN BRILLIANCE: The ‘Z Launcher’
Sugarcoating Android’s Lollipop makes tab easier to swallow
The Nokia Z launcher is what makes its new N1 tablet special.…
That dreaded syncing feeling: Will Microsoft EVER fix OneDrive?
Microsoft’s long history of broken Windows sync
Microsoft and synchronisation go back a long way. Remember Briefcase, a feature of Windows 95 and later, which syncs files between two folders, one of which can be on a removable drive or on the network?…