Fanbois! Prepare for yet another HYPEGASM
Apple’s boss Tim Cook still has a number of iThings up his sleeve with Cupertino expected to unveil new iPads, iMacs and OS X Yosemite on 16 October.…
Why US Feds and g-men kick up a stink about a growing smartphone encryption trend
It’s the inconvenience, stupid
Analysis Over the last few weeks law enforcement officials on both sides of the Atlantic have been kicking up a fuss over Apple and Google deciding to include effective encryption on their smartphones.…
Google wants to KILL apps with the ‘Physical Web’
It’s kinda like shouty bluetooth QR codes
Google thinks apps are clunky, energy-wasting permission-hoarders that should die a fiery death and instead wants everything in the world to broadcast a URL linking to information about itself.…
EFF: Cops’ spyware for parents is insecure – and a fat waste of money
ComputerCOP: Your tax dollars (and seized assets) at work
Spyware distributed by US police to parents so they can check their precious little snowflakes aren’t getting up to no good online is worse than useless, according to a new report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).…
Microsoft’s nightmare DEEPENS: Windows 8 market share falling fast
XP still clinging on tight, may even be growing a bit
Just when you thought it couldn’t get much worse for Microsoft, analysis by Netmarketshare and StatCounter has found Windows 8’s market share fell during September 2014.…
Desktop, schmesktop: Microsoft reveals next WINDOWS SERVER
Run it in Azure today, sysadmins, and get ready for lots of hybrid hype
Windows 10 has hogged the limelight this week, but Microsoft has also revealed a Technical Preview of Windows Server and its System Centre control freak.…
Google’s Eric Schmidt’s shock confession: Steve Jobs is…. MY HERO
But Leonardo DiCaprio might not feel the same way
Google supremo Eric Schmidt has claimed that Steve Jobs was his “hero” and said that we should all endeavour to “be a small percentage” of the Apple godhead.…
EU gives $19bn Facebook-Whatsapp marriage its blessing
Yet it’s not bothered about user privacy worries
The European Commission has decided that Facebook and WhatsApp are not close competitors and approved their merger, despite both offering free online messaging services.…
Vanished blog posts? Enterprise gaps? Welcome to Windows 10
The riddle that will satisfy Win 8 haters, at least
First look Microsoft has posted early builds of Windows 10, showing its new approach to combining tablet and desktop support in one all-encompassing operating system.…
Internet of Things? Hold my beer, I got this: ARM crafts OS to rule them all
New mbed operating system tries to pave over chip rivalries to lure in IoT startups
ARM TechCon ARM will today announce a new operating system called mbed OS: it seeks to smooth over all the differences between various competing system-on-chips so that high-level applications can talk to sensors and other gizmos whether they’re using silicon from Atmel, Marvell, ST, Freescale, NXP, and so on.…