Not fit for purpose on day of launch, says Cupertino
Updated Software using the super-hyped HealthKit API in iOS 8.0 has been pulled by Apple from the App Store due to a bug in the technology.…
Mathematica hits the Web
Wolfram embraces the cloud, promies private cloud cut of its number-cruncher
Wolfram wants to broaden the appeal of its Mathematica product, adding a fully-online version to the existing standalone software applications.…
Former VMware CTO Steve Herrod is now mobile API ‘appy
Tell marketing to shove it and build your apps right, says virtualiser-turned VC
Your marketing department wants to build mobile apps to expose your business processes to world+dog, but if you do it their way you’ll fail and set back future mobile development efforts.…
Mozilla shutters Labs, tells nobody it’s been dead for five months
Veep’s blog reveals all as projects languish on GitHub
Mozilla has quietly shuttered its Labs, folding people and projects into the main organisation.…
Is your data boring? MapR wants you to bore it back with Apache Drill
New release adds support for Google-y SQL-on-Hadoop tech
MapR has given its customers a new way to use SQL to query their Big Data stores, with the addition of Apache Drill to MapR’s eponymous Hadoop distribution.…
iPhone 6 will make you fork over with Apple Pay if you want to BONK
No NFC access for third-party developers, apps
NFC has struggled to get off the ground as a major smartphone feature. And despite Apple finally deciding to include it in the upcoming Apple Watch and iPhone 6, it doesn’t sound like Cupertino will be doing the tech any real favor – because third-party app developers won’t be able to access it.…
iOS 8 release: WebGL now runs everywhere. Hurrah for 3D graphics!
HTML 5’s pretty neat … when your browser supports it
Today, Apple drops iOS 8, and whilst most of Cupertino’s fanbois will be quantifying themselves with HealthKit, flashing their lights with HomeKit, or configuring their greatly expanded notifications capabilities, one of the most significant changes in its mobile operating system has mostly been ignored by Apple.…
POW! Digia straps Qt into ejector seat, gleefully pulls handle
‘Fly, my pretties’ or ‘Son, you’re on your own’?
From Trolltech to Nokia and Nokia to Digia, the programming language Qt has had a challenging corporate life even though it retained fans among developers. Now, the language’s next phase of life has begun in earnest, spun out of Digia into a separate subsidiary tasked with bringing the commercial and open source Qts back into alignment.…
What TODO with open source: Google, Facebook and Twitter launch collab project
It’s all about making it easier – on their bottom lines
Some of the web’s biggest users of open-source gear have thrown their weight behind a project to make open-source “easier.”…
‘Windows 9’ leak suggests Microsoft has caught up with Linux
Multiple desktops and live tiles in restored Start button star in new vids
New videos of a Windows variant thought to be Windows 9 have emerged, and to this hack’s eyes they look to have brought Windows up to speed with tricks Linux on the desktop has been doing for at least half a decade.…