Neat Android dev tool from Google – but another firm’s IDEA
Google has released version 1.0 of Android Studio, now the official IDE for Android.…
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Intel: Grab these platform shoes and dance to OUR Internet of Things standard
Will you join Team Chipzilla or Team ARM?
The Internet of Things is becoming the Standards Wars of Things: Intel has now thrown its hat into the ring with its own IoT Platform to connect stuff end-to-end.…
Dirtbags dressed up malware as legit app using Sony crypto-certs
But cancel that red alert
Miscreants were quick to capitalize on the theft of Sony’s cryptographic certificates – used to sign software to make it look legit.…
Silicon Valley high rollers toss $36m at ‘data centre OS’ Mesosphere
First new OS since Android?
A startup building a “data centre operating system” that owes its existence to a former PHD student has landed $36m in funding from some high-tech high rollers.…
Why, hello there, Foxy… BYE GOOGLE! Mozilla’s browser is a video star
Online face interface minus the vendor lock-in
Review Firefox 34, just released, adds support for Mozilla’s web-based Skype-competitor, Firefox Hello. Firefox 34 also drops Google as the default search engine for US users, gives Mac fans the ability to play native H.264 video and eliminates a major security vulnerability.…
G’Day Australia! Office 365 and Dynamics CRM bounce Down Under
Throw that latency on the barbie and chuck me an ice-cold tube of ‘productivity’
Lots of Australian businesses have already jumped aboard Microsoft’s cloudwagon, often after having been told that the latency associated with data centres on foreign soil was no impediment to anything at all.…
400,000 Windows Server 2003 boxes face SUPPORT DOOM
Possible cloud storage revolution set for, er, Bastille Day 2015
Businesses of Britain are still running Windows Server 2003 on hundreds of thousands of physical boxes ahead of a certain important deadline on 14 July next year.…
Google pushes ‘go’ on Android Studio
‘Our software is not released. It ESCAPES’
Worried Oompa-Loompas are questioning security guards and combing the wilds of Mountain View after it was discovered that Google has allowed a product, the Android Studio IDE, to escape from the Chocolate Factory’s near-impenetrable Beta compound.…
Devs: Barack Obama’s gunning for your job!
President needs a new gig in two years and his CV’s a bit better than yours
Barack Obama has written what is believed to be the first computer code ever penned by a US President.…
This Christmas, demand the right to a silent night
Usability is about lifestyle impact, not just ease-of-use
A few months back I spied a rare, spare week in my schedule and decided to turn it into a fortnight’s ‘staycation’. I’d stick around the house, but do no work whatsoever.…