Software

Patch Tuesday Tackles Browser Flaws Amid Another Adobe Zero-Day

Fixes for Edge and Internet Explorer, but admins warned to pay attention to serious Adobe Flash zero day

9 years ago

IBM Enhances Support For The Swift Programming Language

At WWDC, IBM extended its already-considerable support for the Swift programming language, particularly for using Swift for server-side development

9 years ago

Malicious Documents Use New Tricks To Evade Detection, Warns Zscaler

Attackers utilise social engineering to lure MS Word users to enable macros in order to avoid cyber detection

9 years ago

Microsoft Offers Minecraft Education Edition To Schools And Teachers

Minecraft beta opens up so the game can help teachers and students explore ways to build and design a world

9 years ago

GitHub Is Relying On Developers To Crack The Business Market

GitHub focuses on developers who are getting jobs in big business, but needs to avoid alienating its sizable individual developer…

9 years ago

What Google’s Victory In Java Case Signifies To The IT World

ANALYSIS: Following court loss to Google over Java and the exit of a key Linux thought leader, Oracle must regain…

9 years ago

Microsoft Office Online Users Can Chat While They Collaborate

Microsoft is adding to the browser-based software's co-authoring capabilities, allowing users to chat as they work together on Office content

9 years ago

Microsoft Backtracks Over ‘Sneaky’ Windows 10 Upgrade Notification

Criticism over “nasty” and “deceitful” trick as recommended Windows 10 update causes concern

9 years ago

Docker Founder Talks Of New Tool And Open-Source Lessons He Learned

Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, details his firm's open-source experience and releases new tools at the OSCON conference

9 years ago

Microsoft Moves Open Source Jenkins Project To Azure

Significant customer partnership for Microsoft cloud, as Jenkins project infrastructure moves to Azure

9 years ago

NetSuite Offers Unified Billing System To ERP Customers With SuiteBilling

New billing suite aims to unify the entire billing process, no matter what business model is in use

9 years ago

How Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More Secure

Emily Ratliff of the Linux Foundation explains the considerations to take when planning to fuzz your open source project

9 years ago

Updated £4 Raspberry Pi Zero Adds Camera Connector

'Thousands' of Raspberry Pi Zero devices will be built every day to satisfy demand for the cheapest flavour of Pi

9 years ago

Microsoft Publishes Office 365 Education Roadmap

Microsoft offers students and teachers forward insight into its plans for Office 365 for the education market

9 years ago

Windows 10 Is Now Running On 300 Million PCs, Tablets And Smartphones

But Microsoft warns users to act fast to update, as free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends on 29 July

9 years ago

DuckDuckGo Stumps Up Cash For Open Source Projects

Anonymous Internet search engine DuckDuckGo announces funding awards for worthy open source projects

9 years ago

EMC Embraces Open Source With New EMC {code} Projects

EMC broadens open source contributions with 'Polly' for storage scheduling and new enhancements to REX-Ray storage orchestration engine

9 years ago

Microsoft Stops Cortana Working With Anything Except Bing And Edge

Searches made using Cortana will only open in Bing and Microsoft Edge as struggle for browser and search market share…

9 years ago

Two Thirds Of Software Firms Contribute To Open Source

A majoirty of businesses are now using or contributing to open source projects, as adoption of the technology goes mainstream

9 years ago

Fake Social Button Plug-in Redirects To Exploit Kit, Warns Malwarebytes

Notorious Angler exploit kit is hiding as social buttons on hacked WordPress websites, says Malwarebytes

9 years ago

Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04

9 years ago

Web Hosting Site Squarespace Suffers Major Outage

Over a million Squarespace sites are down following second major hosting service downtime in the last week

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Facebook

Facebook is the world's biggest social network and one of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley, but what do…

9 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Tackles Tame Badlock Flaw

Much hyped “critical” Badlock flaw tamer than first thought, and only warrants “important” label

9 years ago

Hortonworks Tackles Cybercrime With Open Source Apache Metron

Apache Metron community is a vital army in the battle against cybercriminals, says Hortonworks

9 years ago

Windows XP Is Still Running On A Tenth Of All Desktops

Veteran software remains the third most popular version of Windows, despite support ending two years ago

9 years ago

Microsoft Tests Ad-Free Outlook.com Premium At £2.81

Microsoft tests monthly free for Outlook.com premium, which will offer personalised email, better calendar sharing and remove adverts

9 years ago

Open Network Insight Project Builds On Big Data To Improve Security

The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to…

9 years ago

Slack Secures £141m In Fresh Funding For Business Collaboration Push

Three year old Slack is now worth £2.7bn as it looks to continue rapid rise from startup to business tool

9 years ago

Microsoft Looks Beyond Mouse And Keyboard With Windows 10 ‘Anniversary Update’

Free ‘Anniversary Update’ will be available to all Windows 10 users from this summer

9 years ago