I ain’t drinking the Kool Aid, but I can’t avoid swimming in it
DroidCon 14 Reg bad-boy Dom Connor was walking the halls at DroidCon recently – this is what he saw ……
Improving JavaScript: Google throws AtScript into the mix
Better JavaScript … even works with Microsoft’s TypeScript
Google’s Miško Hevery, co-inventor of the popular AngularJS framework, has announced a new project to improve JavaScript by adding type annotations and other features.…
Amazon is the leering monolith in the cloudy room – OpenStack boss
Azure and Google don’t even qualify as scary, apparently
The COO of the OpenStack Foundation took aim at Amazon as “the monolith in the room” today, before claiming its power to dominate the future of the cloud was already on the wane.…
Microsoft’s Bing hopes to bag market share with … search apps
OK, we can’t compete with Google on pure search
Web Summit Microsoft’s director of search Stefan Weitz has admitted that Bing.com probably can’t compete with Google’s search engine in a head-to-head race, but reckons Redmond’s a contender in search applications.…
Disney wins Mickey Mouse patent for torrent-excluding search engine
‘Authenticity weight’ will mean search results bin out sites with little gravitas
Disney has been awarded a patent for an “Online content ranking system based on authenticity metric values for web elements.”…
NSW Govt spends half a million dollars on XP support
Foot cushions well used in eight agency IT shops
The government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has spent more than half a million dollars to allow eight state agencies to persist with Windows XP.…
Microsoft now licensing Windows by the user, across multiple devices
Redmond’s silly VDI arrangements look to be a thing of the past
Microsoft has changed the way it licences Windows so that it is now possible to buy licences on a per-user basis.…
Windows 8 or nowt: Consumer Win 7 fans are OUT OF LUCK
Professional version keeps going – for now
It’s Windows 8.x or nothing for PC shoppers, says Microsoft, which has announced that it’s no longer offering Windows 7.…
Drupalgeddon megaflaw raises questions over CMS bods’ crisis mgmt
Fallout spreads as securobods issue warnings
The security world has been shocked to its foundations following ominous warnings that millions of Drupal websites that didn’t apply a critical patch within hours of its release earlier this month should be regarded as hopelessly compromised.…
Apple Watch buyers will feel ‘different’ after being ‘serviced’ in spring 2015
It’s a, er, neverending marathon of touching – ex-Burberry boss
What will you be buying your loved one for Valentine’s Day next year? Not an Apple Watch, it seems, as this much-anticipated gizmo is now set to be released in the spring of 2015.…