Investment gives IT titan seat on the board – just in time for The Machine

Hadoop has become a strategic battleground for three of the world’s most influential technology companies, judging by HP’s $50m investment into Hadoop company Hortonworks.…

Cofounder David Stacks steps aside as Redmond takes reins

David Sacks, cofounder and former CEO of Yammer, has left his position at Microsoft after having steered the enterprise social networking service for nearly six years.…

William Shatner less-than-impressed by Zuck’s celebrity-only app

Actor and sometime “singer” William Shatner has unloaded on Facebook’s newest app, the ”Mentions” tool The Social Network^TM says helps “actors, athletes, musicians and other influencers to discover and join conversations on Facebook.”…

Unpicking a packed preview that breaks down ASP.NET

Review  Microsoft has released a second preview of the next major release of Visual Studio.…

Ragegasm spills over as firmware upgrade kills machines

Apple fanbois have erupted in rage after an update bricked their Macbook Airs.…

Ever been asked to give feedback on enterprise helldesks? Thought not

New Mac OS set to open to the masses

Apple could soon release its OS X Yosemite platform available to the public as an open beta.…

Android-powered smartwatches get Tizen makeover in US

Owners of the original, Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch in the US will soon have the option to switch their devices to the Tizen operating system, a change which might, counterintuitively perhaps, actually be a good idea.…

God forbid you should miss a single lump of digital gumble

Apparently some Facebook users complain that there’s never enough time to see all the stuff that gets stuck up on the site. Now Facebook has announced the cure for all that.…

If at first you don’t succeed, call it a DevNet

Cisco has picked up a lipstick-gloss in one hand and a pig in the other, by re-launching its developer program to have another shot at attracting third party coders to its platforms.…