The sharing economy is one of the most stunning and liberating things the world has ever known. Airbnb has let people monetise their unused rooms; Uber has let them monetise their unused cars; Ploppr has enabled people to strike a blow for organic farming by monetising their otherwise unused excrement. Now there’s Pimpr, which lets people monetise their unused genitals.…
A creepy, do-gooder app created by the Samaritans has been moth-balled by the charity, following a deluge of privacy concerns about the stalking tool.…
It’s getting close to security update time in Redmond yet again, and Microsoft has given notice that Windows and Office users can expect another nice, big pile of fixes on November’s Patch Tuesday.…
A fifth of those running Windows Server 2003 are currently expected to miss Microsoft’s deadline to move before it terminates support next year.…
Microsoft’s advice to its channel partners to sell Office 365 as a loss leader to lure in small and medium sized customers is not something that sits well with suppliers, at least not in Blighty.…
Crooks using phishing pages to grab victims’ passwords have apparently upped their game – by using proxy servers rather than static pages to craft legit-looking websites.…
Google’s given Microsoft Office an awkward hug by refreshing Drive so it plays nice with desktop applications.…
Comment Tinder CEO Sean Rad has been dumped by the dating app maker he helped found, although he’ll keep his 10 per cent stake.…
In a world … when video games were invading every home … a legendary American company set out to create … the most lucrative console game of all time … It failed … horribly … and set the gaming industry on a path … of annihilation.…
If you want to spark a religious war, express an unshakeable preference for a programming language, and by preference, make your favourite something relatively obscure, like Erlang. It turns out, according to a study by a bunch of UC Davis boffins, the differences in code quality between languages are pretty small.…