This gives a whole new – and scary – meaning to ‘performance review’
Oracle has announced a new tool for HR departments called “Employee Wellness” and seems to be suggesting that you might be willing to let your boss track how much you exercise.…
BrowserStack HACK ATTACK: Service still suspended after rogue email
Admits breach, but only within email address list
Browser testing service BrowserStack has temporarily suspended its services while it recovers from a “hack attack” by someone apparently bent on discrediting the security of the widely used tool.…
MoD releases code to GitHub: Our Ideaworks… well sort of
‘We don’t pretend that the code is the best ever written’
The Ministry of Defence is to consider making some of its more “sophisticated” software available online, having for the first time publicly released code onto open-source site Github.com.…
Firefox decade: Microsoft’s IE humbled by a dogged upstart. Native next?
Browser turns 10 today. El Reg talks to CTO Gal
Analysis It seems hard to believe but 10 years ago the PC was the only computing interface for billions of consumers and businesses and Microsoft owned them all.…
#VultureTRENDING: It’s Pimpr, the latest sharing economy super app
Monetise your unused assets, or find an amazing bargain!
The sharing economy is one of the most stunning and liberating things the world has ever known. Airbnb has let people monetise their unused rooms; Uber has let them monetise their unused cars; Ploppr has enabled people to strike a blow for organic farming by monetising their otherwise unused excrement. Now there’s Pimpr, which lets people monetise their unused genitals.…
Samaritans yanks creepy Twitter-spying Radar app amid privacy fears
Suspends Web2.0 suicide watch project
A creepy, do-gooder app created by the Samaritans has been moth-balled by the charity, following a deluge of privacy concerns about the stalking tool.…
Microsoft warns of super-sized Patch Tuesday next week
More security bulletins in November than in any prior month
It’s getting close to security update time in Redmond yet again, and Microsoft has given notice that Windows and Office users can expect another nice, big pile of fixes on November’s Patch Tuesday.…
ONE FIFTH of Win Server 2003 users to miss support cutoff date
Migration is not a dirty word. Crevice, on the other hand…
A fifth of those running Windows Server 2003 are currently expected to miss Microsoft’s deadline to move before it terminates support next year.…
Microsoft’s ‘loss leader’ Office 365 pricing strategy? NO THANKS
Partners survive on thin margin as it is, the hordes tell us
Microsoft’s advice to its channel partners to sell Office 365 as a loss leader to lure in small and medium sized customers is not something that sits well with suppliers, at least not in Blighty.…
Crooks are using proxy servers to build more convincing phishing sites – new claim
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Crooks using phishing pages to grab victims’ passwords have apparently upped their game – by using proxy servers rather than static pages to craft legit-looking websites.…