Software

The Isle Of Man Embraces Virtual Currencies

Local authorities promote the island as the perfect base for Bitcoin and Litecoin operations, say they can prevent money laundering

11 years ago

PayPal President Leaves To Head Messaging At Facebook

David Marcus will be overseeing the development of Facebook’s messaging products

11 years ago

How To Smarten Up Your Office

Touchscreens, sensors and meeting room management will make employees happier, says Andrew Howells from Condeco

11 years ago

Google Search Could Indicate That Links Were ‘Forgotten’

Google plans to introduce notices to point out where information has been redacted due to European privacy rules

11 years ago

SAP Anchors Cloud Platform With HANA Database

SAP reveals a new cloud platform for businesses based around its HANA database technology

11 years ago

Alibaba Urges Staff Restraint Ahead Of IPO Bonanza

Management of e-commerce giant Alibaba warn staff of the pitfalls of sudden wealth ahead of IPO

11 years ago

Google Open Sources End-To-End Email Encryption

Open source effort should help email providers encrypt messages between one another

11 years ago

Actian Integrates Hadoop With SQL

Actian distributes its database into Hadoop for faster Big Data work that can be carried out using widely-available SQL skills

11 years ago

Samsung Z Is First Tizen-Powered Smartphone

Samsung Z to debut in Russia in Q3 ahead of wider release as company seeks to reduce Android dependency

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Database Systems

What do you know about the current state of the database market?

11 years ago

Microsoft And Salesforce Settle Feud With Partnership Deal

The two companies put aside their differences and agree to bring Salesforce's apps to Microsoft's Office and Windows OS

11 years ago

Footwear Chain Office Hacked, Customer Data Compromised

The attackers gained access to names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and passwords, which were apparently stored unencrypted

11 years ago

Mozilla Opens Pre-Orders For ‘Flame’ Smartphone

The mid-tier Firefox OS reference device from China costs just $170 with free shipping

11 years ago

Microsoft Plans To Launch Real-Time Translation For Skype In 2014

This year, the Universal Translator is coming to a Windows 8 PC near you

11 years ago

ICO Hunts Down Another Spam Texter

The watchdog has raided a ‘SIM farm’ in the midlands and issued a sizeable fine

11 years ago

Google Previews Docker Support On Compute Engine

Google is testing support for containers on its cloud infrastructure service, as interest in the Docker project grows

11 years ago

Facebook Reacts To Privacy Fears With Tightened Settings

Noob users of Facebook receive a privacy policy change that will limit their first postings to the audience they want…

11 years ago

Salesforce Touts Mobile Business App As Sales Rise

Salesforce.com posts higher revenues as it touts a mobile app that it believes will allow users to control their businesses

11 years ago

No More Windows 8 For The Chinese Government

Chinese authorities ban Windows 8 in government offices, to avoid the ‘end of support’ dilemma they are facing with Windows…

11 years ago

Google Reportedly Buying Twitch Game Streaming Service

As gaming becomes more mainstream, could Twitch be the next YouTube?

11 years ago

Autodesk To Launch Its Own 3D Printer Later This Year

The ‘Spark’ platform includes both software and hardware, is expected to cost around £3,000

11 years ago

Mutiny At Bitcoin Foundation Over New Director Brock Pierce

At least ten foundation members want to see former child star and Bitcoin investor removed from the board

11 years ago

The Impact Of Heartbleed On Open Source Security

Thanks to Heartbleed open source software will be better engineered and more secure, says Steve Nice, CTO at Reconnix

11 years ago

Mozilla Reluctantly Adopts Digital Rights Management

Mozilla says it has no choice if it wants to keep its user base, while the user base calls adoption…

11 years ago

Canonical Pushes OpenStack Managed Service With ‘Your Cloud’

Canonical is offering to build and operate OpenStack cloud infrastructure either on-site or using a customer's service provider of choice

11 years ago

Five Year Old Flaw Fixed In Linux Kernel

A high severity bug in the Linux kernel remained undetected since 2009

11 years ago

Oracle Argues For Reinstatement Of $1.3bn SAP Fine

Oracle has argued its record-breaking damages award against SAP should be reinstated, or a retrial ordered

11 years ago

Leaked Screenshots Suggest Extensive Gmail Overhaul

A decade after it was first launched, Gmail is getting a facelift, it seems

11 years ago

Australian Government Plans To Save With Open Source Drupal

The Australian government wants to build a unified CMS for all government websites, based on the open source Drupal software

11 years ago

Docker-Based CoreOS Linux Distribution Beta Launches

New Linux version CoreOS uses the Docker container system for apps

11 years ago