Software

London Riots Co-ordinated With BlackBerry Messenger

The RIM messenger service, popular with teenagers, helped spread the word about looting across London

13 years ago

Who’s Winning The Google v Microsoft Battle?

Google and Microsoft are patently at odds over Android's intellectual properties – but who's coming off best, asks Nicholas Kolakowski

13 years ago

Microsoft Researcher Slams Google+ Real-Name Policy

Google+'s real-name policy is an abuse of power and harms privacy, according to Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd

13 years ago

Rackspace Adds Critical Sites Support For Enterprises

Mission critical Web applications can be supported and monitored 24x7 under Rackspace's latest service

13 years ago

Met Tweets To Lulzsec, US Calls Them ‘Script Kiddies’

The Met took to Twitter to warn off would be hackers as the US government reported on hacktivists

13 years ago

Don’t Just Whine, Google: Oppose Software Patents!

Google has complained about "bogus" patents used against it. It should join the campaign against software patents, says Clint Boulton

13 years ago

British Student Crowned Excel World Champion

A British schoolgirl is the new Microsoft Excel world champion, triumphing at the finals in San Diego

13 years ago

Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd With Cloudera Partnership

Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software

13 years ago

Microsoft Fixing 22 Flaws In August Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fixes bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows desktop and server, and Visio

13 years ago

Chinese Android App Stealthily Records Mobile Calls

An Android app from China can record and transmit phone conversations without the owner being aware

13 years ago

Maude Relaunches Revolving Door To Open Data

The government is listening to ideas about data transparency and open to triggering new business ideas

13 years ago

Chinese HTran Root To RSA Hack Revealed By Dell

Dell's security division has unearthed the HTran bouncer that acted as a go-between in the RSA Security hack

13 years ago

ICO Approves Tweeted Information Requests

The ICO says public authorities with Twitter accounts must respond to tweeted FoI requests

13 years ago

Google Exec Slams ‘Bogus’ Apple And Microsoft Patents

A Google executive has lambasted Apple, Microsoft and Oracle for allegedly plotting against Android

13 years ago

A Million Users Hit By Android Malware In 2011

Android phone users are regularly being hit by numerous malware varieties, according to a Lookout report

13 years ago

Chrome 13 Stabilises For Launch With New Features

Google's Chrome 13 browser declared stable with Instant Pages, print preview, better Omnibox and bug fixes

13 years ago

DoJ Wades In To Android Patent Attacks

Microsoft and Apple are being questioned about Nortel's former wireless patents and Android-bashing

13 years ago

UK Government’s IP Changes Will Legalise CD Ripping

The Digital Opportunity report is set to shake up intellectual property laws to make them fit the digital age

13 years ago

RIM Launches Three New Phones And BlackBerry 7 OS

RIM today unveiled the Bold and Torch phones it hopes will address its declining smartphone fortunes

13 years ago

Is Apple Trying To Beat Android… Or Destroy It?

Apple and Google may need each other, but Clint Boulton believes Steve Jobs wants to kill Android to settle scores…

13 years ago

WANdisco Adds Context To Apache Subversion

WANdisco offers uberSVN and its app store to unify the software Apache Subversion development process

13 years ago

Spain Investigates “Anticompetitive” Oracle

Spanish authorities are examining HP's claims of anticompetitive practices by Oracle relating to Itanium support

13 years ago

Research Uses Face Recognition To Find Personal Data

Researchers have shown off the ability to discover personal data using simple face recognition software

13 years ago

Will HTML5 Replace Flash? Not Just Yet

Adobe has launched an HTML5 tool - but there are still plenty of reasons why Flash will continue, says Peter…

13 years ago

LibreOffice Gets Enterprise Release

The Document Foundation has put out what it calls the first version of LibreOffice that's ready for business

13 years ago

Chrome Beats Firefox To Becomes UK’s No. 2 Browser

Google's Chrome browser has jumped ahead of Firefox in the UK following a massive advertising campaign

13 years ago

HTC Gingerly Launches Android Update For Desire

Gingerbread update finally arrives for HTC Desire handsets, but there's a very big health warning

13 years ago

Google Looks To Boost Gmail With ‘Interventions’

As Microsoft berates Google's Gmail, Google is getting more aggressive with a new tool to bring in non-Gmail users

13 years ago

Scavenging Free Green Power From Radio Waves

Radio wave propagation may be a form of pollution but it could be a source of free, ubiquitous energy

13 years ago

Facebook Offers Bug Bounties

Facebook has followed Mozilla, Google and others in offering cash for the disclosure of security flaws

13 years ago