Software

Man Who ‘Sold’ Free Microsoft Products Is Given Suspended Jail Sentence

Luton resident Mohammed Khalid Jamil ran a Microsoft support scam out of a call centre in India

11 years ago

Salesforce Becomes First Cloud-Only Software Vendor In Gartner Top 10

A pure cloud vendor has for the first time entered Gartner's top 10 list of worldwide software vendors, underscoring the…

11 years ago

Linux 3.14 Upgrades ZRAM, Buffer Features

The latest Linux kernel adds enhanced memory compression, scheduling and networking features

11 years ago

MariaDB Enterprise 2 Bridges The Gap Between SQL And NoSQL

The latest release of MariaDB Enterprise removes the need to choose between different database technologies, says SkySQL

11 years ago

Mozilla Denies Board Member Mutiny Over Its CEO Choice

The organisation says departure of three board members is a coincidence not related to the appointment of Brendan Eich

11 years ago

SugarCRM: Combining Open Source Sensibilities With Commercial Interest

Henning Ogberg and Jennifer Stagnaro from SugarCRM explains how open source platforms can be a good source of revenue

11 years ago

IT Life: Changing Our Desktops

Most people work from three or more devices, says Lisa Hammond.She wants to sort your workspace

11 years ago

Microsoft Office For iPad Makes Long-Awaited Debut

Microsoft Office for iPad is available to Office 365 subscribers immediately

11 years ago

Brendan Eich Is The Right Person To Lead Mozilla

Brendan Eich has guided Mozilla's technical strategy from the start. Sean Michael Kerner says perfect to lead the maker of…

11 years ago

Microsoft Donates Historic Operating System Source Code

Microsoft donates the source code for two iconic products, namely early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows

11 years ago

Facebook Acquires VR Headset Maker Oculus

Facebook surprises with the £1.1bn purchase of virtual-reality headset maker Oculus VR

11 years ago

CloudStack 4.3 Released With Support For Hyper-V

Apache releases CloudStack 4.3, which now supports Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation hypervisor

11 years ago

Mozilla Promotes Brendan Eich To CEO Position

The man who co-founded Mozilla Foundation over a decade ago finally gets into the driving seat

11 years ago

Microsoft Promises To Take Legal Advice Before Reading Hotmail Accounts

New rules come after the company allegedly read the email account of an ex-employee suspected of leaking Microsoft secrets

11 years ago

The Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Will Be Running For EU Parliament

“We need to reboot the thing called democracy,” says former spokesman for the file-sharing website

11 years ago

Mt Gox Discovers 200,000 BTC In An “Old-Format” Wallet

There’s nothing suspicious about a forgotten bitcoin cache worth $100 million, says Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles

11 years ago

Firefox 29 Beta Offers New Look Australis Interface

Firefox 29 beta boasts the most significant Firefox user interface change in three years, codenamed Australis

11 years ago

Google Avoids Group Lawsuit Over Gmail Scanning

A US judge rules that disgruntled Gmail users cannot join forces to sue Google over its scanning of Gmail messages

11 years ago

Microsoft Fixes Skype Battery Drain On Android Devices

Microsoft fixes an irritating problem with Skype on Android devices, which could drain batteries

11 years ago

Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested, Charged With Stealing Windows Secrets

Alex Kibkalo allegedly passed on secrets concerning various Microsoft projects to an unnamed blogger

11 years ago

Mike Lynch Attacks HP Management Ahead Of Shareholder Meeting

Former Autonomy boss Mike Lynch calls on shareholders to investigate 'misleading' HP statements

11 years ago

Pirated Software To Cost Businesses £297Bn In 2014

A new report from IDC and Microsoft details the financial cost to businesses when they run pirated software

11 years ago

Highspot Targets Enterprise Search Via Machine Learning

Former Microsoft engineers form Highspot, to tackle enterprise search using machine learning

11 years ago

HP Readies ConvergedSystems For SAP HANA

HP to launch the first converged infrastructure system for SAP HANA, the database for analytics and big data

11 years ago

Cloudera Gains £97m With Fresh VC Funding

Venture capitalists continue to invest large amounts into the Hadoop-based Big Data start-up

11 years ago

Java 8 Officially Released With Lambda Support

Oracle officially releases Java 8, which is the first major upgrade in over two years for the platform

11 years ago

Oracle Increases Profit But Disappoints Wall Street

Oracle posts a modest profit rise, but displeases Wall Street after it misses revenue expectations

11 years ago

Operation Windigo Infects 25,000 Linux Servers Over Two Years

An unidentified hacker group possesses the capability to send 35,000,000 spam messages and redirect half a million visitors to malicious…

11 years ago

iRobot’s Cisco-Based Ava 500 Telepresence Robot Goes On Sale: Gallery

The robot, which is controlled remotely via an iPad, is just one representative of a new generation of telepresence devices

11 years ago

Microsoft Office For iPad Set For 27 March Launch – Report

Invites are sent out for Microsoft cloud and mobile event with reports suggesting Microsoft Office for iPad will be announced

11 years ago