Avast bod accuses popular software of flinging naughty adverts at screens
Card-game players are being warned about an Android app in Google’s Play Store that reportedly slaps adverts all over your handheld.…
Microsoft takes lid off .Net Common Language Runtime sauce
It’s not .Net on Linux – yet – but it’s getting there
In keeping with its plan to release all of its .Net Core development platform as open-source software, Microsoft on Tuesday published the code to CoreCLR, the .Net Core code execution runtime.…
AWS Go-ing Google’s way
Joins the Golang gulag
The Go language, familiar to those working in the wonderful world of Docker, is inching its way into the Amazon Web Services environment.…
Cisco simplifies software licences, by selling them under THREE programs
ONE Borg to rule them, ONE Borg to bing them …
Cisco reckons it’s unravelled the secret to the popularity of open source networking software projects: licence management in the world of proprietary kit is a pain in the neck.…
Hey Amazon, why so expensive for SQL Server in your cloud?
Cloudy kit more than twice the price on Amazon – customer
Licensing Microsoft’s SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs much more than it does on other cloud platforms, according to a customer who has researched the options.…
How Pivotal cracked the one-billion-dollar code
Red Hat again?
Analysis For well over a decade companies have been trying to trade in open-source popularity for mountains of cash, and for well over a decade the vast majority of them have failed. Downloads, it would appear, aren’t readily convertible into dollars.…
Microsoft eyes slice of Raspberry Pi with free Windows 10 on top
Keen to meet your makers, eh?
Microsoft is working on a free version of Windows 10 that runs on Brit-tech hit Raspberry Pi in order to penetrate the Internet of Things (IoT).…
Google, Amazon ‘n’ pals fork out for AdBlock Plus ‘unblock’ – report
Internet titans reportedly hand undisclosed cash wad to dev
Internet giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have reportedly paid AdBlock Plus to allow their ads to pass through its filter software.…
Adobe and software pals haul Forever 21 to court over piracy allegations
Software trio pick up sueballs, take aim
A trio of software firms is taking a large US-based fashion retailer to court for allegedly pirating their software.…
Enough is ENOUGH: It’s time to flush Flash back to where it came from – Hell
Plugin’s supporters are the antivaxxers of the internet
+Comment If you patched Adobe’s screen door of the internet – its Flash plugin – last week, and thought you were safe, even for a few weeks, you were sadly mistaken.…