Farmville biz lobs trademark sueball at secret bunk-up app
Social games designer Zynga is suing the makers of casual sex app Bang With Friends for trademark infringement.…
Happy 20th birthday, Windows NT 3.1: Microsoft’s server outrider
I remember when you were BSODing all over my shoulder
It started on the server, became the desktop, it’s still there in Windows 8 today, and it just turned 20 years old: Happy birthday, Windows NT.…
Nokia sidles up to Qualcomm, hands over bulging map package
IZat a bunch of floorplans in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Nokia Here will be sharing its global floorplan database with Qualcomm, putting indoor maps together with indoor positioning in an assault on the last place one can get lost.…
Google rolls its eyes, gives Windows Phones five more months to sync
Redmond says its fix will ship by year’s end
Microsoft has bought Windows Phone users more time to sync their calendars and contacts with Google, which has agreed to push the kill date for its Google Sync service to the end of the year.…
Continuous delivery: Can IT really ‘join up’ Ops and Dev?
Will politics get in the way?
Live Chat The Register will be tackling continuous delivery in our latest Live Chat, on September 13 14:00 BST.…
Ubuntu puts forums back online, reveals autopsy of a brag hacker
Canonical hardens security, shows Sputn1k_ only wolfed down useless salted hash
Ubuntu Forums are back to normal following a serious hack attack that exposed the usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords of 1.8 million open source users.…
Win XP alive and kicking despite 2014 kill switch (Don’t ask about Win 8)
On track to be world’s second most used desktop OS when security patches cease
Uptake of Windows 8 for desktop computers – which was never particularly fast – has slowed, according to stats for July from web traffic pollsters Net Applications.…
Roses are #f00, violets are #00f. This witty code is a boffinry breakthrough
‘I like my relationships like I like my kernel source… open’
What do you call a computer program that uses big data to write jokes? Basic, judging by the list of groan-worthy gags generated by this new wisecracking software.…
Lost phone? Google’s got an app for that, coming this month
Free location and remote wipe service for Android devices
Google has announced that it will begin offering a free device location and security service for Android phones and tablets for the first time later this month, addressing a longstanding omission in Mountain View’s mobile OS.…
They don’t recognise us as HUMAN: Disability groups want CAPTCHAs killed
Oz advocay group floats non-W3C-approved alternative
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), Blind Citizens Australia, Media Access Australia, Able Australia and the Australian Deafblind Council have banded together to campaign for the demise of the CAPTCHA.…