Purrs like a beauty once you get her running
Review As has become par for the course with Fedora, the latest – Fedora 21 – has arrived months behind schedule. To its credit, it’s well worth the wait.…
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Microsoft whips out real-time translator for Skype calls
Babel Fish in your ear not required
Microsoft has rolled out a public preview of Skype Translator, its long-ballyhooed service that provides Star Trek–style real-time translation for voice calls and online chats.…
Chrome devs hatch plan to mark all HTTP traffic insecure
Browsers tell us when content is secure, but not when to feel NAKED AND AFRAID
The Chromium Project’s security team has kicked off a debate on whether browser will mark all HTTP pages as insecure.…
Microsoft opens smiley-kids jangly guitar doc-maker to all
Heir apparent to Word and PowerPoint, ‘Sway’, gains UNDO function
Microsoft has opened its new Office app, Sway, to all comers.…
Win Server 2003 custom support: That’s NOT going to be fun
Forrester: Forget profits, Microsoft just won’t want to do this
Microsoft could make a mint from charging businesses for custom support once Windows Server 2003 goes end of life next summer – but it may not make financial sense or be that easy to do so.…
Microsoft TechDays Online 2015: 3 to 5 February, 2015
Training for winning
Promo Microsoft is back with its 4th annual, online TechDays event. This three-day conference is geared towards IT pros and developers who want to get the scoop on Microsoft’s cloud-first, mobile-first products and platforms. It kicks off on 3 February, so be sure to add it to your calendar.…
QEMU, FFMPEG guru unleashes JPEG-slaying graphics compressor
BPG format outputs smaller images at higher quality
Noted software wizard Fabrice Bellard has devised a new raster image format that he says offers superior quality to JPEG at similar file sizes.…
Yahoo! Says! Chrome, IE Users! Should! ‘Upgrade’! To! FIREFOX!
With search deal in place, homepage message urges rival browser users to switch
Yahoo! has started urging visitors to its homepage to “upgrade to the new Firefox” – even when they aren’t using the Mozilla browser in the first place.…
Google vows: Earth will VANISH in 2015
World-mapping web API to go dark amid obsolete plugin death march
Developers who have built web apps that take advantage of the Google Earth geospatial imaging service have just 12 more months to make the most of them, because the online ad-slinger plans to shut down the Google Earth API next year.…
Oh SNAP, Microsoft! Asigra steals a march with Office 365 cloudy backup
Obvious market gap filled by non-Redmond outfit
Enterprise backup firm Asigra has added Office 365 support to its Cloud Backup product.…