$397bn IT giant says payment will take two weeks
Making computer games can be a hard slog for indie developers. Big studios have piles of R&D and marketing cash, and it’s easy to see your pride and joy fall into unplayed obscurity.…
One year on, Windows 8.1 hits milestone, nudges past XP
Funny what lack of choice can do
The number of PC running Windows 8.1 nudged past Windows XP for the first time in November.…
Chef and HP cook up partnership for infrastructure as code – even on Windows
Infrastructure automation goes mainstream?
HP Discover HP Technology Services has announced a partnership with Chef to include infrastructure automation as part of its Datacenter Care offering, at the HP Discover event today in Barcelona.…
Evernote aims at corporate market with new chat feature
Hopes to become workflow software
Note-taking, clip-loving Evernote is hoping to break into the corporate market with the release of a new chat feature.…
Docker, Part 2: Whoa! Spontaneous industry standard! How did they do THAT?
OSS guys acting as one … it’s not natural
Sysadmin Blog Docker is slowly taking over the world. From its humble origins, which we explored on Friday, as an internal project at dotCloud, through to Microsoft’s recent announcement that it will support Docker natively in Windows, Docker looks set to become a major component of modern IT infrastructure.…
Get your staff working on the move: Develop that app for mobile
Mind the gap between the data centre and the handset
Working on the move has become most people’s normal way of operating. We are used to having our world in our pocket and being able to read and write emails, produce simple documents and generally stay in the corporate loop whether we are in the office, in the pub, on a train or (sadly) sitting on a beach trying to be on holiday.…
Yahoo, Bing beg ‘right to be forgotten’ wipers: Don’t FORGET about US
Some people do actually use Microsoft’s search, apparently
Amid the growing number of demands by netizens for Google to remove their out-of-date information under the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling, it seems other search engines are keen to remind us not to forget them, too.…
Fate Acompli: Microsoft gobbles Android email upstart ‘for $200m’
Thanks Redmond for the easy headline. Slotted away nicely
Microsoft has stumped up a reported $200m for San Francisco-based email app maker Acompli.…
CONTAINER WARS: CoreOS blasts Rocket rival at Docker
Claim’s Docker’s direction is ‘fundamentally flawed’
CoreOS, the lightweight Linux distro based around Linux containers and Docker, will develop its own application container tech to compete against Docker.…
RIP Microsoft Clip Art – now you can fill your slides with web cat pics
Need a pointless, daft image? Redmond wants you to Bing it
Anyone who has sat through as many biz presentations as the average Reg hack will have come to loathe clip art – as so many PHBs think adding a few duff images to a boring PowerPoint shows how hip they are with technology.…