Siggraph 2014 Graphics standards body the Khronos Group has called on industry players to help draft the next generation of the OpenGL spec, a major rewrite that’s expected to help unify the OpenGL development model for desktop PCs, mobile devices, and the web.…
Microsoft may be planning to graduate Windows Phone 8.1’s Halo-inspired Cortana digital assistant from the small screen to a full-fledged desktop utility in the next version of Windows, if the Redmond rumor mill is to be believed.…
Developers can now download an early version of the software development kit (SDK) for Google Fit, the Chocolate Factory’s forthcoming health data platform that was announced at this year’s Google I/O conference, although not all of the components are fully baked yet.…
EMC Federation member Pivotal has put all its eggs in one basket, by releasing the first version of its AppSuite.…
China has tightened rules regulating the use of instant messengers, forcing users to reveal their real names when registering so their identities can be linked to their content.…
Google has tacked on two new compute zones to its Compute Engine in one of several tweaks to a product it hopes will challenge Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure.…
Defcon 22 Oracle’s much-ballyhooed data redaction feature in Database 12c is easy to subvert without needing to use exploit code, attendees at Defcon 22 in Las Vegas have heard.…
Netcraft has updated its analysis of web server market share and found that Microsoft is now the world’s dominant provider of such software, albeit with plenty of caveats.…
Get patching, sysadmins, there’s a zero-day in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).…
Google will boost the search rankings of websites that always use secure encrypted connections to transmit pages and exchange data.…