32-bit core packs some DSP for VIP IoT
ARM has had a look at the fridges, speakers and robots that use its Cortex-M series processor cores and decided they need a few maths lessons.…
Move over, Apple Pay: Tesco trials PayQwiq phone-flash pay app
Mobile payments using QR codes
Supermarket, virtual mobile network and bank that is very bad at accounting Tesco has new way for you to pay for your box of Celebrations: a digital wallet called PayQwiq.…
Ordnance Survey intern plonks houses, trees, rivers and roads on GB Minecraft map
I can see my house from here!
MediaTek takes aim at Arduino with IoT wearables project
SoC, SDK, breadboards
MediaTek is dipping its toe in the murky waters of the Internet of Things, announcing a lab initiative with software and hardware development kits targeting the wearables market.…
Ex-Microsoft man Ray Ozzie pushes TALK on your PHONE app Talko
Imagine that. Startup floats with voice collab app for Win iPhone
Software guru Ray Ozzie, once pipped to become Microsoft’s “next Bill Gates” before he exited Redmond, has risen once more – in startup mode.…
Apple’s iOS 8 flops: What bit of our ‘BATTERY-DRAINER’ update didn’t you like?
Listen up Cupertino: fanbois just aren’t that into you anymore
More than half of the Apple faithful have declined the opportunity to update their mobes to iOS 8, the newest iteration of the firm’s mobile operating system.…
Apple pours a cup of JavaScript for its Automator robot
A quiet revolution in Automation
Apple has quietly started toying with the idea of using JavaScript as a task automator in the Yosemite version of OS X.…
‘People have forgotten just how late the first iPhone arrived …’
Plus: ‘Google’s IDEALISM is an injudicious justification for inappropriate biz practices’
QuoTW This was the week when IBM told a bunch of staffers that their skills weren’t up to scratch. To sort the problem out, Big Blue says it’s going to force them into mandatory training and make them give up ten per cent of their salaries for the privilege.…
Open source and the NHS: Two huge disorganised entities without central control
Nay dragons here, me lad – these be long lost lovers
To outsiders, Britain’s National Health Service must look like a monolith, with more than a million staff marching under one three letter acronym to provide healthcare free at the point of delivery, paid for by the taxes.…
‘Broken code’ costs Yelp half a mil in child privacy dust-up with FTC
Busted age block in app is no excuse, says US watchdog
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Yelp after accusing the reviews website of inappropriately gathering personal data on children.…