Brace yourself for software SNAFUs in July
Time Lords at the Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation Service have decided we need an extra second in 2015, thanks to slowing in the Earth’s rotation.…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Windows XP beats 8.1 in December market share stats
Merry Christmas, Satya Nadella
Windows 7 remains the planet’s dominant desktop operating system, but Windows XP again claimed second place during December 2014 according to data from Statcounter.com and Netmarketshare.…
Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all
Enough of the stand-up meetings please, just WRITE SOME CODE
Comment A couple of months back, Dutch computer scientist Erik Meijer gave an outspoken and distinctly anti-Agile talk at the Reaktor Dev Day in Finland.…
Microsoft flings Office apps for Android slabs at world+dog
Right, never mind that iPad, then
Microsoft has once again made its Office apps for Android tablets available for download, this time opening up the preview program to all comers.…
Microsoft lets devs with form skip MCSD exam
If you coded something Redmond approves, you get exam credit
Microsoft’s made it official: if you can code an app for Windows, you can skip some certification exams.…
Stuck on a coding problem – should you Bing it?
Bing Developer Assistant brings web search to Visual Studio editor
Microsoft has released the production version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio, which has been in preview since August 2014.…
About 4King time: Panasonic finally reveals voice-control Firefox OS TVs
Plus full HD camcorders and home spycams
CES 2015 Panasonic today tore the wraps off Firefox OS-powered 4K TVs, high-def 4K camcorders, and home surveillance cameras, at CES in Las Vegas.…
Australia: even more empty than you imagine
Stats boffins make squares of us all
In a release that went largely unnoticed in the lead-up to Christmas, the Australian Bureau of Statistics launched a data product designed to simplify regional and international comparisons.…
NoSQL pioneer to inject your database with ACID
FoundationDB fires up NoSQL-engine strategy
FoundationDB, the ACID-compliant NoSQL specialist, is working on a document database.…
Dodgy Microsoft code NUKED Bing and Yahoo! – report
Apparent blunder led to brief search blackout on Friday night
Microsoft and Yahoo!‘s search engines may hold much smaller portions of the market, which is dominated by ad giant Google, but folk still noticed when the services went dark for a short period on Friday.…