Chocolate Factory retools Drive to drive desktop apps
Google’s given Microsoft Office an awkward hug by refreshing Drive so it plays nice with desktop applications.…
Tinder swipes left on CEO Sean Rad, journalists swipe right
I hope someone like Eric Schmidt replaces me, dreams ousted cofounder
Comment Tinder CEO Sean Rad has been dumped by the dating app maker he helped found, although he’ll keep his 10 per cent stake.…
It’s the WORST game ever, just pulled from a desert DUMP … now ET can be yours for $500
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In a world … when video games were invading every home … a legendary American company set out to create … the most lucrative console game of all time … It failed … horribly … and set the gaming industry on a path … of annihilation.…
Languages don’t breed bugs, PEOPLE breed bugs, say boffins
You say C++, I say Python, you say JavaScript, I say Erlang …
If you want to spark a religious war, express an unshakeable preference for a programming language, and by preference, make your favourite something relatively obscure, like Erlang. It turns out, according to a study by a bunch of UC Davis boffins, the differences in code quality between languages are pretty small.…
Apple strap-on wristjob: You WON’T be able to spend more than $5,000!
Golden arm-slab Watch is positively cheap next to real wristcandy, allegedly
When Apple unveiled its vaporware wrist-tablet Watch, fanbois braced themselves for a bit of sticker shock.…
Canonical pushes LXD, its new mysterious drug for Linux containers
We take the hype out of Ubuntu maker’s non-hypervisor hypervisor
Analysis Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, says it’s working on a new “virtualization experience” based on container technologies – but just how it will operate remains something of a mystery.…
Old hat: Fedora 21 beta late than never… and could be best ever
An alternative to mobile-obsessed Ubuntu
Review As has become regrettably typical for the Fedora project, the first Fedora 21 beta is well behind schedule. According to the current schedule on the Fedora wiki, the final version will arrive about a month late, on 9 December. That is if nothing goes wrong during the beta testing phase that’s just started.…
OpenSUSE 13.2: Have your gecko and eat your rolling distro too
New development model, new distro, same class
Review The great green gecko-wielding distro has undergone a major update with its latest release, openSUSE 13.2.…
Microsoft improves Azure SQL Server cloud service, simultaneously makes it worse
SQL Server compatibility better, reporting as a service chopped
Microsoft has announced improvements to its Azure SQL Database service, which offers a managed SQL Server database with patching and operating system maintenance handled automatically by the cloud service.…
Microsoft Office for tablets goes freemium, arrives on iPhone and Android
Office 365 subscription still needed for ‘full experience’
Microsoft Office’s iPad apps have been well received since their first release in March this year – other than the annoyance of needing a suitable Office 365 subscription to use the apps for more than just viewing documents.…