Stats boffins make squares of us all
In a release that went largely unnoticed in the lead-up to Christmas, the Australian Bureau of Statistics launched a data product designed to simplify regional and international comparisons.…
NoSQL pioneer to inject your database with ACID
FoundationDB fires up NoSQL-engine strategy
FoundationDB, the ACID-compliant NoSQL specialist, is working on a document database.…
Dodgy Microsoft code NUKED Bing and Yahoo! – report
Apparent blunder led to brief search blackout on Friday night
Microsoft and Yahoo!‘s search engines may hold much smaller portions of the market, which is dominated by ad giant Google, but folk still noticed when the services went dark for a short period on Friday.…
Want to have your server pwned? Easy: Run PHP
Over three-quarters of all installs are insecure, research shows
More than 78 per cent of all PHP installations are running with at least one known security vulnerability, a researcher has found.…
Internet Explorer 12 to shed legacy cruft in bid to BEAT Chrome
Windows 10 will ship with two-pronged browser – report
Microsoft has been working on a new scheme to strip away some of the legacy bloat that has burdened its Internet Explorer web browser, sources claimed.…
Kim Dotcom vows to KILL SKYPE with encrypted MegaChat
Claims new service will end NSA mass surveillance
Megaupload maestro Kim Dotcom says he will soon unveil an encrypted video calling and chat service that he claims will mark “the end of NSA mass surveillance.”…
Key to Windows mobe app sales? Er, LOW MEMORY, of course
… and maybe get a few people to BUY the unloved tile-tastic things?
Microsoft is imploring developers to keep an eye on memory budgets when coding for the Windows Phone.…
Google’s Gmail staggers to feet in China as access partially restored
Webmail hit a wall, but not our Great Firewall, says PRC
Access to Gmail in China appears to have at least been partially restored, after Google’s web addresses were blocked over the weekend.…
For the love of Bong! He’s Chief Contract Killer Evangelist… for WHAT NOW?
Post-Web-2-point-oh give me a break…
Comment We’re in one of those phases of the tech biz where imitation equals innovation, if you add excremental incremental changes and a personable plonker to spokesperson The Coming Revolution.…
‘Great Firewall’ FINGERED after Gmail block hits China – report
Chinese clients? Better pick another webmail
Large numbers of Google’s Gmail web addresses were blocked in China over the weekend.…