Wanted: algorithm wranglers, not systems giants
Think “SAP and partners” and the mind goes to mega names – giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Fujitsu, Accenture and Deliotte.…
Reg man grills HP Software big cheese
Youngjohns reveals plan to harden up software sales
Traditionally HP Software was seen by many of its business partners on the hardware side of the house – and by default some of their customers – as a fragmented portfolio of specialist applications amassed via acquisition.…
Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game
What SHOULD Microsoft call its browser?
Internet Explorer could be getting a new name as Microsoft tries to escape the browser’s troubled past.…
Twitter displays our ‘Favorites’. That is, like, PRIVATE, huff naive users
Tests feature to hoover up more ad cash
Twitter has begun messing with its design by showing “Favorited” tweets in its timeline, much to the annoyance of some of the micro-blogging site’s users.…
Google straps on Jetpac: An app to find hipsters, women in foreign cities
Choc Factory slurps Instagram-trawling social travel app
Google has bought Jetpac, an image-recognition app that uses Instagram photos to help travelers find what they’re looking for in cities – women or hipster moustaches, for example.…
The Return of BSOD: Does ANYONE trust Microsoft patches?
Sysadmins, you’re either fighting fires or seen as incompetents now
Patch early and patch often is the advice of security professionals when it comes to software updates.…
MongoDB tosses support lifeline to open source downloaders
‘Don’t want our Enterprise Edition? No problem!’
Open source NoSQL database vendor MongoDB has added a new support option for customers who want to run the Community Edition of its software in production environments.…
Linux kernel devs made to finger their dongles before contributing code
Two-factor auth enabled for Kernel.org repositories
Beginning on Monday, the security of the Linux kernel source code has become a little bit tighter with the addition of two-factor authentication for the kernel’s Git code repositories.…
Munich considers dumping Linux for … GULP … Windows!
Give a penguinista a hug, the Outlook’s not good for open source’s poster child
The German city of Munich, which famously adopted Linux and open source across its operations, may be about to reverse that decision.…
Remond cries UNINSTALL in the wake of Blue Screens of Death™
Cache crash causes contained choloric calamity
Microsoft has urged users to remove a buggy update and yanked its download links, after reports emerged it caused the dreaded blue-screen-of-death.…