So much more exciting than just calling them spreadsheets, eh?
The White House has created the post of Chief Data Scientist and hired the guy who coined the term as its first incumbent, DJ Patil.…
Hi, I’m Larry. I’ll be your software vendor tonight. May I take your coat?
Oracle launches Hospitality Business Unit in wake of Micros gobble (does it expect tips?)
Oracle’s US$5.3bn ingestion of MICROS, a provider of hardware, software and services to the hospitality and retail industries, looks to be complete as Big Red has announced the acquisition has spawned a new Oracle Hospitality Global Business Unit.…
Ads! People! love! ads! in! their! apps! Please! use! ours! cries! Yahoo!
And give us money, we like money
Yahoo! has released a set of tools allowing smartphone apps to use the web giant’s Bing-powered search engine and serve up ads.…
Google’s email-for-iOS app Sparrow is pining for the fjords
Soon to be an EX-Sparrow
Two and a half years after Google bought the French e-mail client Sparrow, it’s decided the client gets in the way of pushing Apple fans to its own Inbox service.…
Linux kernel dev has gone well and truly corporate – report
Companies making more changes, and faster than ever
The Linux kernel is growing and changing faster than ever, but its development is increasingly being supported by a select group of companies, rather than by volunteer developers.…
Windows 10 for phones: Stepping towards the One True Windows
Hands On with the Windows Insider preview
Microsoft has released an early preview of Windows Phone 10, and we put it through its paces on a Lumia 630, one of just a few supported devices.…
SAP’s 10-year HANA gamble: A life without the big boys
So long IBM, Microsoft and Oracle…
SAP was gung-ho about its HANA-or-nothing database play for the next version of its software crown jewels earlier this month.…
Microsoft empties the Rooms: Soz, Windows Phone fans
Cloud-o-bile in action?
Microsoft is axing a much-loved feature of its Windows Phone OS, Rooms, at short notice. An email sent to users yesterday announced that support is ending next month – long before functionally equivalent replacements are in place.…
BlackBerry’s money-making QNX unit touts virty dual-OS devices
Hypervisor lets kit makers have realtime OS cake and eat it, too
QNX Software Systems, the BlackBerry subsidiary that markets operating systems and tools for embedded systems, has released new virtualization software designed to allow device makers to deliver rich graphical UIs without sacrificing reliability or safety.…
HTTP/2 spec gets green light: Faster web or needless complexity?
Google SPDY now evolved to an open standard
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has approved the specifications for HTTP/2 and HPACK (a compression format for HTTP/2 header fields), says working group chair Mark Nottingham.…