New App Store rules to protect against über-expensive in-game tat
Apple has handed new guidelines to App Store software programmers to prevent kids from racking up huge bills from in-app purchases.…
Microsoft warns it’ll hand out zero days for Windows XP
Beginning April 2014, patches will bring new threats
Microsoft has a Windows XP problem: people still like it and aren’t willing to upgrade just yet. So it’s warning users that if they don’t upgrade soon, each new Patch Tuesday will gift a new series of vulnerabilities to the hacking community.…
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 debuts with IBM code side and centre
Plays better with Microsoft, makes Macs think it’s malware
The Apache Software Foundation has released OpenOffice version 4.0, a leap forward from the previous 3.4 edition let into the wild in March 2012.…
How Novell peaked, then threw it all away in a year
And a bunch of Mormons made the biggest tech buy you’ve never heard of
Netware 4.0 Anniversary One grey morning in the mid 1990s, your writer was bundled on a plane and flown to somewhere in Germany – it might have been Dusseldorf – to attend the Olympics. Not those Olympics. The inaugural Certified NetWare Engineer Olympics.…
Microsoft offers IE 11 preview for Windows 7 … but not Windows 8
But you were probably running Windows 7 anyway
Microsoft has released a developer preview build of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, breaking a pattern of dragging its feet when it comes to supporting the latest version of IE on the older OS.…
Mozilla ponders blinkers for your browser
Plans to mine browser history so publishers can serve you what you want
Mozilla Labs has outlined an experiment it’s conducting in improving the personalisation web publishers can offer readers who browse their sites using Firefox.…
New in Android 4.3: At last we get a grip on privacy-invading crApps
Decide which app can do what, and when – almost like a real computer
The latest version of Google’s Android, 4.3, has a panel controlling access permissions on an app-by-app basis – but only for those users ready to experiment with untested functionality.…
FSF passes collection plate for free Android clone Replicant
Donations sought to port free OS to more kit
Updated The Free Software Foundation has launched a new fundraising program aimed at getting Replicant, the free software version of Google’s Android smartphone OS, running on more devices.…
Apple Developer portal partially resurrected
Large community of Sunday night developers overjoyed
Apple’s developer portal came back to life over the weekend, eight days after it was allegedly taken down by a Turkish bloke.…
Microsoft haters: You gotta lop off a lot of legs to slay Ballmer’s monster
Terrifying ten-legged beast of Redmond is not dead yet
Comment Contrary to increasingly popular belief, Microsoft is not a “dead” company, nor at immediate risk of collapse.…