And no early tease for MSDN or TechNet loyalists, it’s claimed
Microsoft will unleash Windows 8.1 for world+dog to download in October, it’s claimed, a year after it released the touchscreen-friendly, tile-tastic Windows 8.…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The ’90s called. It wants its ‘Ping of Death’ back
Wobbly IPv6 Windows stack gets extra support
Microsoft has pushed out eight advisories as part of the August edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. With just three critical patches, the most interesting thing about this week’s batch is the return of the “Ping of Death” in the form of a stability bug in the Windows IPv6 stack.…
Evernote hobbles third-party apps… but is it pulling a Twitter?
Call me maybe: Mobile trunk sets rate limit on API requests
Mobile archiving service Evernote is throttling access to third-party applications which use its application programming interface (API) – and admits that apps that sync Evernote data will fall foul of the new rules.…
Make or break: Microsoft sets date for CRUCIAL Win 8.1 launch
Plus: R2s of Server and System Center sneak out
Microsoft will begin the second act in its Windows 8 drama on Thursday, 17 October. The company said today that Windows 8.1 would be available through the Windows Store in a free worldwide update for consumers already on Win 8 from 4am Pacific Time on that date (7am Eastern, 12 noon BST).…
Facebook tops up Apache Project graph database with fresh code
‘You know what’s cooler than a billion edges? A trillion edges!’
Facebook has shoved code back into the trunk branch of Giraph, an open source graph-processing Apache project that mimics Google’s advanced “Pregel” system.…
YouTube app returns to Windows Phone
Revised app not raising Mountain View’s hackles, but users bleat about bugs
Updated Microsoft has released another YouTube app into the Windows Phone store.…
Superstar cluster-Zuck as Facebook tries out celeb-only edition
Online velvet rope to be erected between shlebs and us* plebs – report
Facebook is building an anti-social network which will ban ordinary people and only allow celebrities beyond its virtual velvet rope.…
Auntie touts e-babysitting … and no £15,000 in-app purchase shocks
Turn on, tune in, drop off as the kids entertain themselves on a slab
The BBC’s kiddie TV wing, CBeebies, has turned out a “free” collection of mobile games for parents happy to let Captain Barnacles and the Alphablocks rear their children.…
Just add creepiness: Google Search gets even more personal
Thinking about that pic of the dog you took a week ago? Here it is!
Google will soon be interrogating its users’ Gmail, Google Calendar and Google+ accounts to try and predict the questions they enter into Google Search, bringing the Chocolate Factory’s Now functionality into the mainstream.…
YouTube Wars: Microsoft cries foul as Windows Phone app pulled again
Claims it shouldn’t be forced to use that awful HTML5
Analysis Microsoft has publicly criticized Google for failing to live up to its commitment to openness, after being told to pull its custom-built YouTube app from the Windows Phone Store for the third time.…