Software

Samsung Prepares Tizen Smartphones For Russia And India – Report

Samsung Tizen smartphone could finally see the light of day in the next few weeks

11 years ago

Mozilla Reassures Users Over Firefox Ad Programme

Mozilla has said it will test its Directory Tiles programme to ensure it delivers 'user value' before rolling it out…

11 years ago

Oracle Wins Round In $1bn Android Court Battle

A US federal court has ruled that Oracle's Java programming interfaces can be protected by copyright, in a blow to…

11 years ago

Google Improves Cloud App Monitoring With The Acquisition Of Stackdriver

A dashboard to monitor apps hosted in the public cloud will be integrated into Google’s Cloud Platform

11 years ago

Firefox OS-Powered ZTE Open C Goes On Sale In UK For £69.99

ZTE Open C is available on eBay and runs the latest version of Firefox OS

11 years ago

UK ISPs Will Have To Issue Alerts To Suspected Pirates

Customers who infringe copyright will start getting warning letters in 2015, but there are no legal consequences

11 years ago

Snapchat Settles FCC Charges For ‘Deceiving Users’

Snapchat reprimanded by US regulator and faces 20 years of scrutiny for deceiving its users

11 years ago

Cisco And Citrix Buddy Up For Enterprise Mobility Platform

Cisco and Citrix extend their partnership to include a workplace mobility solution for businesses

11 years ago

HP Spends $1 Billion On OpenStack-Based Helion Cloud Push

Hewlett-Packard is to invest $1 billion as it seeks to bolster its cloud computing credentials

11 years ago

Microsoft Patches Windows XP With IE Update

Microsoft opts to rescue Windows XP users with an emergency patch for Internet Explorer

11 years ago

Secret Social Network To Hit UK Shores

Privacy affectionados celebrate after 'Secret', the anonymous social network, prepares for UK launch

11 years ago

Skype Removes Rude And Naughty Emoticons

Skype users slap their forehead and shake their heads after Microsoft removes potentially offensive emoticons

11 years ago

Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version 1.0

The OS that helped Edward Snowden communicate with journalists is ready for prime time

11 years ago

Google Launches Offline Docs Apps For iPhone And Android

Google Docs and Sheets offer offline editing for iPhone, iPad and Android, with Slides set to follow

11 years ago

‘Most Customisable Ever’ Mozilla Firefox 29 Boasts Brand New Interface

Firefox 29 offers new tabs, bookmarks and sync options, while developers get new tools to play with

11 years ago

Oracle Adds OpenStack In Solaris 11.2

The new Solaris continues Oracle's push for its own "engineered systems", but opens up to OpenStack

11 years ago

Twitter Disappoints With Slowing Growth

Twitter shares plummet as investors take fright at its slowing growth and usage figures

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers $10,000 Bounty For Bugs In New SSL Certificate Library

In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts

11 years ago

Software Engineer Creates Smartphone Based On Raspberry Pi

David Hunt shows how to build a smartphone out of electrical components worth £94, without any soldering

11 years ago

Mozilla Appoints Andreas Gal As New CTO

The current vice president of Mobile Engineering replaces Brendan Eich, who was first promoted to the CEO position, then resigned

11 years ago

Controversial FCC Proposals Could “End Net Neutrality” In The US

The Federal Communications Commission could allow US ISPs to charge for priority traffic

11 years ago

The Founder Of Russia’s Largest Social Network Is Fired, Flees The Country

The former CEO finds out about his dismissal from the press, says he won't return to Russia

11 years ago

Facebook Boosts Mobile Advert Sales

Facebook's first-quarter profits tripled, aided by significant growth in its mobile user base and mobile ad sales

11 years ago

Android Users Downloaded 220m Apps Containing Heartbleed Bug

Updates have reduced the number of vulnerable apps, but millions still running flawed software on Android

11 years ago

GitHub President Resigns After Allegations Of Harassment

Tom Preston-Werner quits GitHub, even though an independent investigation clears his name

11 years ago

Ubuntu 14.04 ‘Trusty Tahr’ Arrives To Fill Windows XP Void

Canonical touts the new release of Ubuntu Linux as a great alternative to replace Windows XP

11 years ago

IT Life: I’ve Been Doing Big Data For Ten Years!

Tendü Yogurtcu was working on Big Data before you heard of it. She likes open source and rates imagination over…

11 years ago

IBM Q1 Disappoints With Ongoing Hardware Decline

IBM's first quarter results make for grim reading as it reveals the lowest quarterly revenue in five years

11 years ago

Microsoft Plans Interactive Displays and Gesture Control

Microsoft is working on a 'Minority Report' future, to allow more intuitive user interaction with computers

11 years ago