When is a brick not a brick? When nobody cares, says HP
HP has announced it will shut down webOS cloud services on January 15th, 2015.…
Facebook doubles ad-hacking bounty
Small security snafus snuffed, try the tiny and technical
Facebook has doubled the cash it will pay out to folks who report holes in its advertising code.…
Torvalds CONFESSES: ‘I’m pretty good at alienating devs’
Admits to ‘a metric ****load’ of mistakes during work with Linux collaborators
Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has admitted that his tendency to use strong language has alienated other members of the Linux community.…
Google offers sweet new SDK to let Android devs join ‘Lollipop’ guild
Includes Android 5.0 system images for Nexus kit
Android 5.0 “Lollipop” won’t ship to the public for a couple more weeks, but Google has tossed developers a bone by releasing the final SDK and system images for select Nexus devices ahead of launch.…
Admins! Never mind POODLE, there’re NEW OpenSSL bugs to splat
Four new patches for open-source crypto libraries
Poodle If you’re using the popular OpenSSL open source cryptography library, you have more to worry about than the recently disclosed POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability, project devs have warned.…
Aboard the GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP, there’s a Mobe and a Slab and a TELLYBOX
It’s swee-eet trip to the Android shop
Pics Google has released its latest iteration of the Android OS, plus a triple deployment for the new software in three new devices – a trendy big phone, a slablet and a telly box.…
NetWare sales revive in China thanks to that man Snowden
If it ain’t Microsoft, it’s in fashion behind the Great Firewall
Worries about US spying in China have sparked new interest in Novell’s venerable NetWare product line.…
Disaster roster: OMG, are YOU SAFE? I dunno. Check Facebook
Zuck me, I feel a whole lot more secure today
Your loved one has been kidnapped and is about to be killed by a horde of barbaric jihadis. What do you do?…
ONE MILLION people already running Windows 10
A third of them are doing it in VMs, but early feedback focuses on frippery
Microsoft has revealed that a million people have signed up for the Windows Insider Program it is using to offer early access to Windows 10 for those willing to test the operating system’s early iterations.…
Benioff promises Wave of Lightning to mobilise Salesforce
Drones on for three hours in keynote, peps self up with Coke-from-a-drone
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco is usually a theatrical affair, but his company may have outdone itself this time.…