Merger will lead to mainframe and COBOL powerhouse
Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.…
Microsoft’s rumoured $2.5bn Minecraft gobble expected on Monday
Mojang rising to Redmond?
Microsoft is reportedly planning to spend $2.5bn on the rumoured buyout of Minecraft maker Mojang, with a deal speculatively set for Monday.…
Netscape plugins about to stop working in Chrome for Mac
Google kills off 32-bit Chrome, only on Mac
Google has let it be known that it will stop working on 32-bit versions of Chrome for Mac OS.…
New ‘Cosmos’ browser surfs the net by TXT alone
No data plan? No WiFi? No worries … except sluggish download speed
A project that’s just landed on github aims to let users in the developing world access Web pages over text messages alone.…
Profitless Twitter: We’re looking to raise $1.5… yes, billion
We’ll spend the dosh on transactions, biz stuff ‘n’ sh*t
Twitter is planning to raise up to $1.5bn in its first debt offering since the company went public in November last year.…
Not appy with your Chromebook? Well now it can run Android apps
Google offers beta of tricky OS-inside-OS tech
To help bridge the gap between its two mobile platforms, Google has released a beta version of a technology that allows Chrome OS users to run Android apps on their desktops.…
Facebook’s self-destruct status update beta test will self-destruct
SnapChat-like posts in limited pilot mode
Facebook has confirmed it is running a limited trial of a new feature that allows people to craft self-deleting posts.…
It’s a pain in the ASCII, so what can be done to make patching easier?
Give us the tools
Like most of you reading this article, I neglect good patching hygiene.…
Former Red Hat CTO drops into cloudy veep spot at Google
12 years and all I got was this lousy 25-word ‘goodbye’?
Red Hat’s technology chief has floated over to Google following his abrupt and uncelebrated exit.…
Intel: Hey, enterprises, drop everything and DO HADOOP
Big Data analytics projected to run on more servers than any other app
IDF 2014 How important will Big Data be to the typical enterprise IT department within the next few years? More important than any other workload, if you believe Intel.…