Redmond thinks the Object Real-Time Communications API for WebRTC is ready to roll
Microsoft is going to try to bake Skype into Internet Explorer.…
Microsoft has Windows Server running on ARM: report
WinARM just doesn’t sound as good as Wintel
Microsoft looks to have created a version of Windows Server that runs on ARM processors.…
Canonical rolls out home-grown Ubuntu OpenStack distro
OpenStack’s winners: ‘People like us and Red Hat and HP’
Exclusive Canonical is spinning its own OpenStack distro to simplify deployment of Linux clouds and ensure its place in an expected cloud winners’ club.…
Get a face-to-face with Microsoft at Future Decoded
Big names, training, startup advice – for free
Promo Time is running out to attend Microsoft’s huge conference – Future Decoded – in London’s ExCeL centre on 10 to 12 November.…
Microsoft shows off spanking Win 10 PCs, compute-tastic Azure
Joe Belfiore presents auto-provisioning biz boxes
TechEd Europe Microsoft’s TechEd Europe conference is under way in Barcelona, and this morning Microsoft corporate VP Joe Belfiore showed new management features in the forthcoming Windows 10.…
Mozilla: Spidermonkey ATE Apple’s JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8
Moz man claims the win on rivals’ own benchmarks
Mozilla Distinguished Engineer Robert O’Callahan reports that the Spidermonkey JavaScript engine, used by the Firefox web browser, has surpassed the performance of Google’s V8 engine (used by Chrome) and Apple’s JavaScript Core (used by Safari) on three popular benchmarks: Mozilla’s own Kraken, Webkit’s SunSpider and Google’s Octane.…
Microsoft unwraps new auto data-protection in Office 365 tools
‘Heyy, it looks like you’re writing down stuff that’s best not written down!’ ‘F*ck off, Clippy’
Microsoft is expanding its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools. DLP is a way of tagging content to mark it as sensitive data and subject to policy, such as a rule that states “data must be encrypted” or “may not be shared outside the organisation”.…
Hey, YouTube lovers! How about you pay us, we start paying for STUFF? – Google
It’s too late for Psy, though
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has confirmed that the Google vid service is open to introducing subscriptions.…
Yes, Virginia, there IS a W3C HTML5 standard – as of now, that is
You asked for it! You begged for it! Then you gave up! And now it’s HERE!
After nearly 10 years of development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has promoted the HTML5 specification to Recommendation status, its highest level of maturation, effectively making the markup language a formal web standard.…
Top research shop releases free boffinware for all
Your research may be bleeding edge, but the way you do it probably isn’t
Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which lists the formative work behind WiFi among its successes, wants to boost researcher productivity, and has published a free-for-boffins scientific tool called “Workspace” to help.…