Don’t relax yet, sysadmins, there’s still a chance for some big messes here
WordPress 4.0 has landed, which is kind of a big deal seeing as the blogging/content management software runs around 60 million websites.…
TIBCO ponders new ‘financial options’, including sale or merger
Your challenge: find ways to satisfy shareholders of mid-sized enterprise software outfit
It’s hard to be a mid-sized enterprise software vendor these days. BCM last year went private and Compuware this week announced it would walk the same road.…
Jimbo tells Wikipedians: You CAN’T vote to disable ‘key software features’
To dissent is to ‘climb the Reichstag dressed like Spiderman’…
Wikipedia’s maximum leader Jimbo Wales has declared a new era at the online encyclopaedia. Rather than the unpaid volunteer community voting on what software it uses, it will have to use what the wealthy WMF Foundation tells it to use.…
Do you accept Bitcoin? That’ll do nicely, says Apache
Late scramble aboard the bitbandwagon for open sourcerers
Open-source project shop the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is now funding its projects with Bitcoins.…
Steve Ballmer firms as world’s most annoying man candidate
Former Microsoft CEO revealed as having personally penned blue screen of death text
Microsoft has revealed that Steve Ballmer himself penned the text that appears when users give Windows the “three-fingered salute”* by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL to invoke the infamous “blue screen of death”.…
Sex is great in books, lousy in apps, says Apple
New App Store guidelines offer rules for smut and new home automation and health APIs
Apple has published a new set of guidelines for its App Store, and suggested that those who want to depict sex on iThings should write a book or song instead of an app.…
YES, I have ridden the UNICORN: The Ubuntu Utopic unicorn
And no, you don’t have to be a virgin. Linux fancier joke here
Ubuntu 14.10, nicknamed Utopic Unicorn, is coming in just a few months. Alpha releases have been available for some time but beta testing started last week, meaning code is generally stable enough for virtual machines and other testing scenarios.…
Govt waves stick at pirate-friendly Google search
Feeling lucky?
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has threatened to introduce legislation if Google doesn’t stop promoting pirate sites above legitimate sites in its organic search results.…
It’s official: Brit parents want their kids to be just like Steve Bong
Career as a banker? No, no. Our sprogs should be TECH ENTREPRENEURS, sez survey
Steve Bong is a role model for British parents, who – according to a back-of-the-beermat poll – think a career as a tech entrepreneur would be much more beneficial to their offspring than becoming a vet or a banker, or joining the police.…
Apple ‘fesses up: Rejected from the App Store, dev? THIS is why
How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways
Apple has finally confessed to the reasons why developers’ iOS apps are failing to appear in its vaunted App Store.…