It’s joined the choir invisible
We really, really, really mean it this time: take SSL3 and bury it.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Apple wants to patent iBeacon stalking
‘Find a friend’, what could possibly go wrong?
The fruit of Apple’s 2013 acquisition of indoor mapper WiFiSlam seems to have fallen from the tree and landed at the patent office, with Cupertino filing for a find-my-friends feature.…
Google creates cloud code cache
Chocolate Factory wants to be your GitHub, eventually
With an uncharacteristic lack of fanfare, Google has decided to hang around the kitchen at the code repository party.…
Google IS listening: Binary blob banished from Chromium build
Simply no place for closed-source components, sorry
New Chromium builds will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module and will automatically remove the module on startup if it was previously installed.…
Microsoft’s curious Sway comes to iPad and iPhone
Windows 10 app to follow soon
Microsoft has released Sway for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, and will follow up with an app for Windows 10 “later this summer”.…
Samsung vows to stop knackering Windows Update on your laptops
‘We’ll do that with an update for our software updater,’ says Sammy
Samsung has promised to release a patch for its computers so that they no longer kill off automatic Windows updates from Microsoft.…
Android’s sun sets on Eclipse
Devs told to move to Android Studio
Google has decided Android Studio is all you need to make apps, and by the end of the year will no longer support the venerable but popular Eclipse IDE.…
Windows 10 is due in one month: Will it be ready?
It’s do-or-die for Microsoft’s new operating system on 29 July
Analysis The release of Windows 10 is set for 29 July, just one month from now. It will be a significant moment, marking the first Windows 10 release in a wave that will eventually include Windows Mobile and Xbox, and is critically important to Microsoft following the poor reception for Windows 8.…
Github’s ‘Atom’ text editor hits version 1.0
Emacs’ self-appointed heir heads out into the world
Github’s Atom text editor, which it announced back in February 2014, has reached version 1.0.…
Windows 10 Mobile is shaping up nicely – now Cortana can send emails
Microsoft’s next phone OS looks to be in better shape than the PC version
Microsoft has released Build 10149 of Windows 10 Mobile to members of the Windows Insider preview programme’s Fast release ring.…