That’s it, big boy, come bonk on our tube
Vodafone has announced that its SmartPass technology will work with TfL’s systems when the London Underground starts accepting mobile pay-by-bonk on 16 September – but bigger things are planned.…
‘Enterprise’ ends ten-year mission: Choc Factory’s biz services now Google for Work
We never wanted to be a stuffy enterprise seller, sniffs Schmidt
Google has celebrated ten years of selling services to businesses by dumping the name Google Enterprise in favor of the touchier, feelier Google for Work.…
Sony backs AllSeen Alliance in Internet of Stuff standards slap-fight
Joins Microsoft, Qualcomm against Intel and Samsung so everyone can get along
Sony has cast its lot with the AllSeen Alliance in the ongoing standards squabble over the pervasive-computing future tech known as the Internet of Things (IoT).…
Internet of Things: Major players agree on goals, but little else
Everyone loves those Things, just not on each others’ terms
Analysis The whole industry seems to be going wild about the Internet of Things (IoT), but the hard part about making this bold new vision happen is going to be as much about getting the vendors talking as getting the so-called things talking.…
Firefox 32 moves to kill MITM attacks
Public key pinning, security fixes, better cache
The Mozilla Foundation has stepped up its efforts to improve browser security with the launch of Firefox 32, adding public key pinning to try and protect users from man-in-the-middle and other attacks.…
Oracle’s MySQL buy a ‘fiasco’ says Dovecot man Mikko Linnanmäki
The first rule of open source club: don’t sell to Oracle if you want to live
A co-founder of the widely-used IMAP server Dovecot has outlined his three rules for open source success, in terms Larry Ellison may not enjoy.…
China: You, Microsoft. Office-Windows ‘compatibility’. You have 20 days to explain
Told to cough up more details as antitrust probe goes deeper
China’s antitrust regulator has given Microsoft 20 days to hand over a written explanation of how the Windows OS works together with the bundled Office software suite as part of its probe into the firm’s alleged monopoly activities.…
No flogging, please, we’re Apple: Health app makers FORBIDDEN to sell users’ info
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS … REGULATORS
Apple is expected to unveil new products which will use the latest version of its iOS operating system, including new iPhones, at an event on 9 September. But mobile app developers – who’ve already had their hands on the mobile OS since June – will be prevented from making sensitive user data available to third parties on “HealthKit” platform..…
BBC: We’re going to slip CODING into kids’ TV
Pureed-carrot-in-ice cream C++ surprise
Comment The BBC now has a policy of attaching an educational theme to each year that will be rammed into as many programmes as possible and will run across all of its channels and websites.…
Windows 7 settles as Windows XP use finally starts to slip … a bit
And at the back of the field, Windows 8.1 is sprinting away from Windows 8
Windows XP lost nearly one per cent of global market share during August, according to both Netmarketshare and StatCounter, but there’s not been a corresponding bounce in the prevalence of other Microsoft operating systems.…