Possible cloud storage revolution set for, er, Bastille Day 2015
Businesses of Britain are still running Windows Server 2003 on hundreds of thousands of physical boxes ahead of a certain important deadline on 14 July next year.…
Google pushes ‘go’ on Android Studio
‘Our software is not released. It ESCAPES’
Worried Oompa-Loompas are questioning security guards and combing the wilds of Mountain View after it was discovered that Google has allowed a product, the Android Studio IDE, to escape from the Chocolate Factory’s near-impenetrable Beta compound.…
Devs: Barack Obama’s gunning for your job!
President needs a new gig in two years and his CV’s a bit better than yours
Barack Obama has written what is believed to be the first computer code ever penned by a US President.…
This Christmas, demand the right to a silent night
Usability is about lifestyle impact, not just ease-of-use
A few months back I spied a rare, spare week in my schedule and decided to turn it into a fortnight’s ‘staycation’. I’d stick around the house, but do no work whatsoever.…
HP flings big data at cloud, sysadmins’ faces
Another attempt at ‘your log files can tell you what’s about to go wrong’
Your log files, the story goes, aren’t just a record of every every stray packet that grazes your firewall or every temperature spike inside your servers when someone uses the microwave in the lunch room. They’re really a treasure trove of hidden indicators that can tell you not just how to stop IT breaking at the worst possible moment, but perhaps also show you how to run your data centre more efficiently.…
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 3.18 as 3.17 wobbles
Seven release candidates is enough
Linus Torvalds has pressed the go button for a new release of his eponymous operating system.…
Misty-eyed Ray Ozzie celebrates 25th birthday of Lotus Notes by tweeting about it …
‘Legal tussles nearly killed us but we shipped on 7 Dec 1989’
Software guru Ray Ozzie has been celebrating the upcoming 25th anniversary of Lotus Notes by telling the story of its development in a series of tweets.…
Microsoft forks .NET and WHOMP! Here comes .NET Core app dev stack
Modular platform will be more agile – but devs fret over porting
Microsoft has revealed more details about .NET Core, “the foundation for all future .NET platforms”.…
Angry Birds to angry words: Rovio flings 14% of its staff out the door
Dev studio axed in games biz shakeup
Troubled Finnish gaming studio Rovio has sacked 110 staff, almost 14 per cent of its workforce, but is claiming success as it had planned to dump 130 people.…
Meet Jack and Jill: Google’s new Android compilers
Android diverging further from official Java? Don’t go breaking your crown
Google has come up with new Android compilers, spotted in the latest preview SDK by Eric Lafortune at Saikoa.…