Software

Android’s Iris Voice App Takes Aim At Apple’s Siri

Apple's Siri intelligent assistant now has Android competition from the cheekily named 'Iris' app

13 years ago

Facebook Faces Irish Data Protection Probe

Facebook is bracing itself for a data protection audit in Ireland that could result in an £87,000 fine

13 years ago

Government Plans To Save £1.4bn With Online Services

Half government departments will be on public clouds in Francis Maude's plan to boost services and cut costs

13 years ago

Microsoft Delivers Compiler As A Service Preview

Microsoft has released a preview, codenamed Roslyn, that opens up C# and Visual Basic APIs

13 years ago

Ubuntu Summit Plans To Polish The Precise Pangolin

With Oneiric Ocelot just released, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth wants to get next year's release right

13 years ago

Massive SQL Injection Attack Hits A Million Pages

LizaMoon attacks may have waned but code injection is still rife with a million pages infected in a new wave

13 years ago

Real-Time Collaboration Added To Google Docs

Google Docs has been given real-time collaboration capabilities, not unlike those seen in Google Wave

13 years ago

IBM Adds Analytics, Cloud And Virtualisation Products

IBM’s rollout of 55 new and enhanced server and storage products target massive data handling

13 years ago

Why IT All Comes Down To Four Titans

Over the next ten years, the fate of IT will be decided by the struggle between Google, Facebook, Apple and…

13 years ago

Samsung Says ChatON Launched Globally, Almost

Samsung announced the global availability of its free-to-download mobile communication service, ChatON

13 years ago

VMware Launches Cloud Management Portfolio

VMware's new management tools give organisations greater insight into the workings of their virtual environments

13 years ago

Endeca Buy Boosts Oracle’s Big Data Management

Oracle plans to acquire Endeca Technologies to improve its access to unstructured and Big Data

13 years ago

IBM Sees Cloud And Analytics Driving Growth

IBM posted a seven percent rise in profits thanks to strong growth in business analytics and the cloud

13 years ago

The Cloud’s Not The Limit For LibreOffice

LibreOffice's first annual conference shows it to be in rude health following its fork from OpenOffice, says Iris Cheerin

13 years ago

RIM Got Almost Everything Wrong

BlackBerry-maker RIM needs to show it can sort itself out and move on, even if only to get a good…

13 years ago

Task Manager Restyling For Microsoft’s Windows 8

Windows 8 will feature a reworked Task Manager to serve casual and power users in different ways

13 years ago

Hacker Forum Shares Attack Methods And Tips

Imperva analysed a hacker forum, finding users chat most about DDoS attacks, tutorials and recruitment

13 years ago

Apache Re-affirms Backing For OpenOffice.org

The Apache Foundation has declared OpenOffice.org as an official part of its incubation scheme

13 years ago

Amazon Silk Browser Faces Privacy Probe

US lawmakers are concerned that Amazon's Silk web browser tracks people's browsing habits

13 years ago

Microsoft Updates Windows Intune For Cloud

Microsoft continues its push into the business-cloud arena with its next release of Windows Intune

13 years ago

Parallels Takes Virtualisation Crown: Review

Good management means Parallels. Mac virtualisation beats VMware Fusion, Oracle Virtual Box

13 years ago

R&D Investment Drives European Software Growth

European software companies continue to push R&D to drive growth.

13 years ago

RIM Offers Free Apps To BlackBerry Users

RIM is placating angry BlackBerry owners with free premium apps, not cash, after last week's outages

13 years ago

Symantec: Mobile Malware Follows The Money

The malware threat in smartphones is only just beginning as criminals seek to find financial benefits

13 years ago

Google Shutters Buzz, Jaiku

Google has shut down Buzz and Jaiku as it looks to focus on more successful endeavours such as Google+

13 years ago

iPhone 4S Set To Break Records This Weekend

Apple could sell as many as four million iPhone 4S smartphones this week, following record pre-order sales

13 years ago

Dell: Big Buyers Are Big Winners

If you've got the infrastructure, the brand and the balance sheet, why wouldn't you grow by acquisition, asks Dell's Dave…

13 years ago

BlackBerry Bold 9900: Review

Combining touchscreen and keyboard, the 9900 is a slick slim BlackBerry for loyal users

13 years ago

Writer Jarred As BlackBerry And Apple Jam

To lose one mobile device connection is bad news. To lose two is enough to spread gloom over Wayne Rash's…

13 years ago

Ubuntu Server 11.10 Could Rule The Cloud: Review

While Linux-based operating system Ubuntu has been closely associated with the desktop, the project’s server variant has grown more prominent…

13 years ago