First browser to protect networks’ bandwith using official spec
Google has recently pushed out Chrome 38, for desktop and mobile devices.…
Sway: Microsoft’s new Office app doesn’t have an Undo function
Content aggregation, meet the workplace … oh
Review Microsoft has released a preview of Sway, which the company says is a “brand new app in the Office portfolio.” But what is it? Sway is a “way to express yourself and bring your ideas to life,” Microsoft says. This kind of fluff is a poor way to define a product.…
Speaking in Tech: Hey Satya. Have YOU relied on karma in YOUR career?
Meanwhile, ‘control freak’ flight attendants try to wreck Kindle usage
Netscape Navigator – the browser that started it all – turns 20
It was 20 years ago today, Marc Andreeesen taught the band to play
Netscape Navigator, the browser credited with taking the World Wide Web into the mainstream, was released twenty years ago yesterday, on October 13th 1994.…
Influential scribe Charles Petzold: How I figured out the Windows API
From Programming Windows to Xamarin Forms
Interview Charles Petzold’s book Programming Windows (in various editions) was how a generation of developers learned to code for Windows – 25 years ago when Microsoft’s operating system was the hot new thing.…
Do Moan! MONSTER 6-day EMAIL OUTAGE hits Domain Monster
Customers freaked out by frightful service
Updated Fed-up Domain Monster customers are still waiting for the company to fix an email outage that has been going on for six days now.…
Windows 10: Forget Cloudobile, put Security and Privacy First
But – dammit – It would be insane to say ‘don’t collect, because NSA’
Sysadmin Blog Controversy has erupted around Microsoft’s Windows 10 preview. More specifically, questions are being raised about the amount of tracking – and the depth of tracking – that was built into the preview.…
Return of the Jedi – Apache reclaims web server crown
.london, .hamburg and .公司 – that’s .com in Chinese – storm the web server charts
Netcraft’s October survey of web servers will be welcomed by open source aficionados, as the firm has found Apache is once again the planet’s most-used web server.…
Rebellion sees Chromium reverse plans to dump EXT filesystem
A Linux derivative without Linux’s very own filesystem was a strange look
The Chromium project decided that the EXT family of filesystems are surplus to requirements, but has bowed to pressure and signalled it is willing to reverse the decision.…
Linux Foundation plans open-source drone hit
Drone me, Tux is going UAV?
The Linux Foundation is targeting drones through a project building a reliable open-source software platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).…