Projects

Black Duck Announces Open Data Initiative

Black Duck has licensed Ohloh.net data for wider use, as well as launching a new open source code search engine

12 years ago

Nvidia Forums Shut After Password Theft Exposes 400,000

Graphics giant Nvidia closes two stores and three other sites as hackers expose user details

12 years ago

Mozilla Wants Hundreds Of Thousands Of Firefox OS Developers

Firefox OS will get overwhelming support because most apps are already written in HTML5, says Mozilla Europe president Tristan Nitot

12 years ago

Dragon Systems Creators Sue Goldman Sachs Over $580m

The bank was paid $5 million for advice that led to Dragon's demise

12 years ago

Agile Development Comes With Hidden Costs, Warns Report

The fashionable development practice may be bending IT out of shape

12 years ago

Startup To Bring Back Nokia’s MeeGo

A startup called Jolla, founded by ex-Nokia engineers, is aiming to build smartphones based on the well-received open source operating…

12 years ago

Social Coding Platform GitHub Gets $100m Investment

Having become a central resource for software developers, GitHub has now accepted its first outside investment, with plans to make…

12 years ago

Apple Apps Boast Better Retention Than Android

New figures show that apps running on the iPhone and iPad are used much more frequently than on Android devices

12 years ago

Apigee Brings Its Web API Work To The UK

Apigee tells TechWeekEurope it is moving to London for the quality and quantity of tech talent here

12 years ago

CA’s App Development “Wind Tunnel”

Testing software components on a simulated network is the only way to deliver good software, says CA's Shridhar Mittal

12 years ago

Torvalds Bashes Nvidia Over Linux Support

Linux Torvalds has criticised Nividia for allegedly offering weak support for Linux developers, while exploiting the Android market for its…

12 years ago

Microsoft Launches Android Challenger Windows Phone 8

Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8 to challenge the domination of Android and Apple iOS

12 years ago

Developers Confident Of Nokia Chances With Windows Phone 8

Developers are optimistic about the chances of Nokia and Microsoft succeeding with Windows Phone 8

12 years ago

Mozilla Offers Easy Website Creation With Thimble

A Mozilla tool is offering beginners an easy way to create websites by making HTML coding “incredibly simple”

12 years ago

Network Rail Opens Up Data Feeds

The rail organisation hopes to encourage application creation, but developers call for more data to be made available

12 years ago

European Commission: FRAND Patent Battles Hold Consumers ‘Hostage’

The Commission's lead on competition calls for ideas on how to make companies respect FRAND patents

12 years ago

Government Names Suppliers For Public Services Network

The government names 29 suppliers to provide cost-effective services for public sector

12 years ago

Android Tweaks May Double Performance

Linaro's Android 4.04 performance-boosting updates, are available for Galaxy Nexus handsets

12 years ago

COBOL Developers Get Visual Studio Boost

Micro Focus and Microsoft are to integrate Visual Studio tools with Micro Focus' COBOL programming environment

12 years ago

Video: CIO is one of the toughest jobs in the world

Hendrink Deckers, managing director of CIONet in Europe talks about the role of IT management

12 years ago

Visa-free Offshore Community Plan For Launching Startups

Sailing in international waters may provide a way to assemble crack teams of multinational entrepreneurs without visa restriction problems

13 years ago

IT Life: Four Decades Of Computing

We chat to IT veteran Ian Fergus about Bill Gates, Amazon, the Internet of the future, and free burgers

13 years ago

Silicon Milkroundabout Job Fair Returns To London

IT Ninjas, Gurus and Jedi assemble, for free coffee, free friut and 800 jobs!

13 years ago

Mozilla Webmaker To Teach Users How To Code

A new program from Mozilla is promising to turn humble web users into coding developers

13 years ago

Windows 8 Improves Support For Multiple Monitors

Microsoft is to make it much easier to use multiple monitors in Windows 8, in order to aid productivity

13 years ago

BCS Adds Agile Testing Certificate

BCS has introduced a certificate for agile software testers, reflecting the growing importance of agile development techniques

13 years ago

NHS Trust To Appeal ICO Fine

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust says ICO has "acted incorrectly"

13 years ago

GitHub Looks To Enterprise With Windows Support

The GitHub web-based project hosting service now supports Windows, with software aimed at enterprise developers

13 years ago

Linux 3.4 Kernel Boosts Virtualisation

Linux developers make improvements to virtualisation, 64-bit computing and other areas

13 years ago