A ‘pretty strong signal,’ says CEO
Two leading lights in open source and mobile have landed $54m in funding for their company.…
Microsoft refuses to nip ‘Windows 9’ unzip lip slip
Look at the shiny Windows 8.1, why can’t you people talk about 8.1, sobs an exec somewhere
Microsoft is putting on its poker face amid growing rumors it will officially unveil “Windows 9” at the end of next month.…
Obama’s healthcare.gov savior says: ‘No suits please, we’re techies’
Mikey Dickerson plans change in move from Google to running government IT
The incoming head of the newly formed US Digital Service – a crack sysadmin force to fix government IT systems – has said his team are focused less on looking smart and more on serious coding.…
ARM64 gets better GPU support in CUDA release
CUDA 6.5 eyes HPC market
NVIDIA has launched the next upgrade to its parallel computing and programming platform, with CUDA 6.5 going live as a production release.…
Look, no client! Not quite: the long road to a webbified Vim
Building in the browser
Programming the Web, Pt. III The most revolutionary aspect of all the changes that have taken place in web development over the last two decades has been in the web browser.…
Linux Foundation says many Linux admins and engineers are certifiable
Floats exam program to help IT employers lock up talent
LinuxCon 2014 The Linux Foundation on Wednesday introduced two new certification programs aimed at connecting employers with qualified Linux administrators and engineers.…
Storage, chip slingers pledge allegiance to Linux, open source
Linux Foundation swells ranks, coffers
LinuxCon 2014 As LinuxCon 2014 kicks off this week in Chicago, the Linux Foundation has announced that it has won new support from across the technology industry, including several hardware companies.…
EnterpriseDB chucks devs free tools to craft NoSQL web apps with PostgreSQL
Prebuilt AWS image comes with all you need preconfigured
Enterprise-class PostgreSQL database vendor EnterpriseDB has launched a free turnkey development environment designed to make it easier for coders to build web applications using PostgreSQL’s new NoSQL capabilities.…
Eat up Martha! Microsoft slings handwriting recog into OneNote on Android
Freehand input on non-Windows kit for the first time
Microsoft has announced improvements to the mobile versions of its OneNote note-taking software, aimed particularly at those who prefer to do their jotting with a pen, rather than a keyboard.…
Intel’s Raspberry Pi rival Galileo can now run Windows
Behold the Internet of Things. Wintel Things
Windows fans can run their OS of choice on Intel’s counter to Raspberry Pi, courtesy of an Intel firmware update.…