Flying pension scheme dips toe in the water – but nothing else
British Airways is giving developers tentative access to small amounts of its data, launching a scheme to open up some of its APIs.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
SatNad’s blathering could see Lumia ‘killed’. Way to go, chief!
Microsoft’s self-inflicted PR crisis. Memo: Speak clearly
Microsoft’s boss has attempted to explain the future of its mobile platform in a latest public statement addressed to staff. But, this being from Satya Nadella, such is the verbal haze, it’s hard to make out any clear shapes at all.…
THE END of WINDOWS EVERYWHERE. Is that really what Nadella wants?
‘Universal Apps’ … without a smartphone
Comment In April 2014, Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business, including its Windows Phone products and expertise, for EUR 5.44bn (around $7.5bn at the time).…
Jolla cuts hardware biz loose to concentrate on Sailfish licensing
Things will be clearer next week at the Mobile World Congress, hopefully
Hardware and software outfit Jolla is to give up making hardware, with that part of the business set to be taken on by a new, yet-to-be-announced company, with Jolla then concentrating on its Sailfish OS.…
We tried using Windows 10 for real work and … oh, the HORRORS
Better, worse, prettier or uglier?
In depth Every time I’ve looked at Windows 10, it hasn’t been long before I’ve run away screaming. As recently as May the ISO was nowhere near ready for prime time. Testing Windows 10 seemed to me like volunteering to be an unpaid drug trial guinea pig – it would be painful and could potentially give you horrible side effects, and you wouldn’t even have an envelope of cash at the end to show for it.…
Firefox to speed up dev cycle, go multi-process, rip and replace UI – soon
Big changes could take ‘a while,’ say Moz bods
Mozilla is planning big changes in how it builds its Firefox web browser, including speeding up its release schedule and – in the long term – getting rid of some of the Mozilla-specific technologies that have traditionally been used to build the browser’s UI and add-ons.…
Google hits TurboFan button on Chrome’s JavaScript engine
New compiler tech offers up to 29% speed increase
Google says its new optimizing compiler tech is gradually speeding up JavaScript execution in its Chrome browser – and it one day hopes it can rip out all the old compiler code and replace it with something better.…
BB10 AND Android? How BlackBerry can have its cake and eat it
Expect GreenBerrys and BlackBerrys growing side by side
Analysis New BlackBerry handsets are coming with unrecognized part numbers, which were spotted on an Indian import database.…
Evil NSA runs on saintly Linux, Apache, MySQL
If report is correct, Red Hat’s marketing department has a very tricky customer reference
The United States National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) XKEYSCORE spookware, revealed by Edward Snowden as capable of sniffing and analysing just about any data from anywhere, runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.…
Phew! Brits escape Azure price hikes as rest of world bears the brunt
Microsoft shows the people of Blighty some cloudy love
Blighty has dodged the price hike bullet that Microsoft is set to fire into Europe and Australia, which will see customers paying more for Azure cloud services – much more, in fact.…