Enlighten 3 lobs more lighting effects and new tool at games, movies etc
GDC 2015 Brit processor designer ARM and its gobbled subsidiary Geomerics want to shed some more light on gaming graphics – literally, with an update to Enlighten.…
CONFIRMED: Tiny Windows Server is on the way
Cloud OS at the bottom, server in the middle and a dedicated client on top
Microsoft’s plans to decompose Windows Server into a far lighter and leaner beast are real. On Monday we reported on the emergence of a Microsoft slide deck outlining a “Nano” version of Windows Server aimed at the cloud.…
Bringing Hadoop in from the cold: MapR is throwing adoption barriers on the fire
V4.1 has three shortcuts to get clusters up and running faster
Comment The pace of Hadoop development is relentless. Hortonworks recently has had its IPO. Distribution owners strive to get their version deployed faster. Alliances are forming fast. MapR is extending its own reach by adding features so the software can be adopted more easily.…
Windows XP’s market share grows AGAIN!
Not even nuking it from orbit will do the job, we fear
It’s the first Monday of the month, so time for us to have a look at desktop operating system market share again!…
Bradley Horowitz on ailing Google+: Islands in the stream, that is what we are …
Network thingy becomes an, er, embarrassment of thingies
Google product veep Bradley Horowitz is now heading up the ad giant’s fading fast Google+ service, but its name appears to have put the willies up Mountain View’s execs lately – to the point where they simply don’t mention it any more.…
First peek at the next Ubuntu 15.04 nester line-up
Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Barney McGrubuntu, Cuthbert, GNOME and MATE
Ubuntu 15.04 is here – almost. The first beta of Vivid Vervet has been delivered, and with it have come images of the penguin flock that nestles on this OS.…
Jolla launches Sailfish 2.0, now with added security
Tablet coming later this year, but will it be competitive?
MWC 2015 Jolla, the smouldering platform which was born out of Nokia’s decision to go Microsoft, has announced its new version of the Sailfish OS.…
Groovy Java guy off for Restlet
Project now the leader of the pack following withdrawal of funding
Guillaume Laforge, leader of the Groovy project, is joining Restlet, a small company which supports the open source Restlet framework.…
Google’s ‘encrypted-by-default’ Android is NOT encrypting by default
It’s sad that this isn’t really a surprise
Last year, Google said Android 5, codenamed Lollipop, will encrypt the contents of smartphones and tablets by default. Now it’s had to do some backtracking.…
IBM continues fanboi courtship with fresh crop of iOS apps
Big Blue pops out three more Apple-ready business tools
IBM has released a trio of enterprise applications for iOS devices, as part of its Businesslab partnership with Apple.…