You might find the servers a bit chocca
Apple has – out of the goodness of its heart – allowed everyone, not just developers, to help it get its new El Capitan and iOS 9 betas debugged. For no money.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Microsoft starts switching on paid Wi-Fi service with latest Windows 10 preview
Latest thing for sale in the Windows Store: internet access
Microsoft has shipped another preview build of Windows 10 to the Windows Insider program’s Fast release ring – the fourth in two weeks – but the single new feature is access to a paid Wi-Fi service that is only available to a small fraction of testers.…
It’s FONDLE TIME: We pop the iOS 9 public beta onna slab and stroke it up
Apple’s unfinished update – hey, the price is right
So, we thought we’d slip the iOS 9 beta onto a handy fruitchomp ‘slab and have a bit of a go with it.…
AWS opens gate to fondleslabs-as-a-service farm
Sorry, devs, you just lost a reason to buy one of every phone and tablet you fancy
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened a farm in which it hopes developer’s will loose their code to graze on lush fields of myriad devices.…
Microsoft SLASHES 7,800 bods, BURNS $7.6bn off books in Nokia adjustment
Record writeoff officially terminates the Ballmer era
Microsoft will carry out one of its largest rounds of job cuts and a record book writedown in a restructuring plan that calls time on its ill-fated Nokia acquisition.…
Don’t touch this! Seven types of open source to dance away from
Count the committers for an OSS project, and go from there
Comment In a world where even Microsoft gets the open source religion, the planet’s overall quota for positivity and good karma must be increasing, right? Of course this is not the case, there are bad eggs in every basket and open source has had its share of so-called “openwashing” from time to time.…
Decision time: Uninstall Adobe Flash or install yet another critical patch
Hacking Team vulnerability fixed for Windows, OS X and Linux machines
Adobe has issued yet another update for Flash Player to patch a critical vulnerability revealed in documents leaked from spyware maker Hacking Team.…
Microsoft rains cash on OpenBSD Foundation, becomes top 2015 donor
Those OpenSSH bugs aren’t going to patch themselves
Microsoft has handed a pile of money to the OpenBSD Foundation, becoming its first-ever Gold level contributor in the process.…
Office 365 prices ‘to rise by up to 13 per cent’
Will hit Euro-zone, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Canada
+Comment Microsoft looks to have increased the price it will charge for Office 365 in the Euro-zone, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and Canada.…
Apple spared from paying a day’s revenue in patent damages bout
Judge bins jury’s award in iTunes software showdown
Apple will not have to cough up the $533m (£347.61m) in damages it was on the hook for after losing a patent infringement battle.…