Mayer poaches mobile talent from old stomping grounds
The former head of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Google has jumped ship to the competition.…
IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power
Rising open source tide carries all boats, IBM hopes
After opening up its Power chips to bit fiddlers through an ARM-style licensee model, IBM is pouring $1bn into Linux development on the architecture.…
Microsoft relents: ‘Go ahead, install Windows 8.1 on clean PCs’
Retail media and downloads will no longer be upgrade-only
Updated Microsoft says that in addition to offering Windows 8.1 as a free update for Windows 8 users in October, it will also be easier for customers to buy versions of Windows 8.1 that don’t require an upgrade from a previous edition of the OS.…
Open source Android fork Cyanogen becomes $7m company
Plans to build ‘world’s largest’ mobile OS contender
Independent Android firmware project CyanogenMod has become a company, thanks to a $7m Series A financing round led by Silicon Valley venture firms Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.…
BlackBerry Messenger to launch on Android, iOS this weekend
Free downloads to open BBM to rival smartphone platforms
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will be available for download on Android and iOS devices beginning this weekend, the struggling Canadian smartphone maker has announced.…
Apache Foundation embraces real time big data cruncher ‘Storm’
Does for real time processing what Hadoop did for batch processing
The Apache Foundation has voted to accept the “Storm” real time data processing tool into its incubator program, the first step towards making it an official part of the Foundation’s open source offerings.…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it … Win Phone 8? No, it’s APPLE’S iOS 7
Arr, ’tis colourful. Belike Microsoft weren’t lubbers after all
Review Apple’s iOS 7 has come some way since its initial preview release and public unveiling back in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Back then the focus was inevitably on the operating system’s new visual styling, and Apple does seem to have taken on board the early criticism of the new look.…
Final preview of IE11 for Windows 7 uncanned
Microsoft has a browser for ye scurvy consumerrrrs
A preview of the final build of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 has been released by Microsoft, bringing “30 per cent more speed” than any of its rival browsers when run on the OS, according to Redmond.…
Brits are world’s most wired drivers, says fleet tracker CEO
Now the for the bad news: the roads are so bad you can’t do logistics without fleet trackers
The United Kingdom’s roads are so bad that the nation has become the world’s strongest adopter of fleet management technology, says to TJ Chung, CEO of logisitics software-as-a-service (SaaS) outfit Navman Wireless.…
Google smacks Surface with free Quickoffice for Android, iOS
Chocolate Factory retaliates before MS Office lands on mobile platforms
Google has reduced the price of its Quickoffice tool to nothing on Android and iOS, a move Microsoft won’t appreciate.…