New Tinder Plus is cheap for svelte 20-somethings, pricey for saggy over-30 set
Proximity-based hookup app Tinder has launched a premium service charging older users more to mingle with potential mates still in their prime.…
Hadoop gets native C/C++ injection
Big data for the non-Java generation
Like Hadoop but it’s just a bit too Javary? There’s now an answer for that: MapReduce for C (MR4C).…
Microsoft working on ‘Nano’ server for web-scale Windows
Slide deck appears describing lightweight core for future Windows Servers
Microsoft appears to be working on a new version of Windows Server aimed at web-scale operations.…
Google open-sources HTTP/2-based RPC framework
Chocolate Factory’s microservices code is yours to coddle
Google has open-sourced something called “gRPC” that it says represents “a brand new framework for handling remote procedure calls” using HTTP/2.…
Lenovo: We SWEAR we’re done with bloatware, adware and scumware
By Windows 10 launch our systems will be PURE, honest
Barely a week after the breaking of the Superfish scandal, Lenovo has done a complete reverse ferret on bloatware – promising that by the time Windows 10 comes out its systems will be as pure as they can be.…
And the buggiest OS provider award goes to … APPLE?
Count of 2014’s flaws finds more nasties in Mac OS and iOS than in Windows or Linux
Apple’s operating systems and Linux racked up more vulnerability reports than Windows during 2014, according to research from security outfit GFI.…
Firefox 36 swats bugs, adds HTTP2 and gets certifiably serious
Three big bads, six medium messes and 1024-bit certs all binned in one release
Mozilla has outfoxed three critical and six high severity flaws in its latest round of patches for its flagship browser.…
Money from apps? It’s all about Apple iOS, says survey
Oh yeah, and don’t bother with ads
A new survey of mobile app developers shows that Apple iOS is where the money is, despite Android’s higher market share among mobile devices.…
Google to tame Android’s Wild Wild West to please suits
Rounds up enterprise posse for sandboxed safety
Google is recruiting Android app authors to help tame Mountain View’s Wild, Wild West mobile platform for businesses.…
Microsoft man: Internet Explorer had to go because it’s garbage
Even Redmond is fed up with ‘IE-specific behavior’
Microsoft says it decided to start from scratch with a new web rendering engine for Windows 10 because keeping up with web standards while maintaining compatibility with older, noncompliant versions of Internet Explorer had simply become too much of a burden.…