Party like it’s 1999

Facebook has built an internet chat-room app that lets people anonymously gossip with one another, just like on IRC.…

Brian Cox, Sir Nigel Shadbolt at Tech Day, ExCeL, 12 Nov

Promo  Microsoft is running a huge conference – Future Decoded – in London’s ExCeL centre on November 10-12. The Tech Day on Day 3 has a huge agenda, big name keynote speakers, eight training tracks – and one track dedicated to entrepreneurial startups and students.…

Heart of Windows 8 lives on in Windows 10

Analysis  This weekend marks two years since Windows 8 and Surface were launched at a press event at Pier 57 on the Hudson River in New York.…

Exciting possibilities. Just not yet

Review  For a celebratory 10th birthday release, Ubuntu 14.10 is a bit of a damp squib.…

Next driver to battle fake chips with ‘non-invasive’ methods

Chipmaker FTDI has pulled a driver from Windows Update that could brick devices containing knockoff versions of its USB-to-serial bridge chips, but says it won’t back down on its aggressive anti-counterfeiting stance.…

Haricots renversés sur Facebook

The French wing of Microsoft’s Nokia mobile device division appears to have confirmed some Windows Phone rebranding efforts that have been rumored for the past few months.…

Print this article out and give it to someone techy if you get stuck

Vid  Email has been around for more than 40 years – but Google thinks you just can’t handle its fiendish complexity. And lo, the web king has developed an application dubbed Inbox to make an easy job easier.…

And Sarah HATES Doctor Who

Faster updates, and more Google control for Android

Android 5.0, codenamed Lollipop, has introduced a key change to the WebView component, used by app developers to display HTML 5 content within their apps, making new features more readily available.…

Oi, Windows, centOS and openSUSE – behave, we’re all friends here

“It hurts my eyes,” Steve Ballmer once joshed during a demonstration of Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 managing Red Hat Linux.…