Software

Twitter To Warn Users About Emergencies, Natural Disasters

New Twitter Alerts feature allows government agencies and NGOs to contact users directly

12 years ago

Nvidia Promises Better Access For Linux Community

Nvidia offers an olive branch to the Linux community following sharp criticism by Linus Torvalds

12 years ago

Oracle Touts Billing And Revenue Mgt Cloud Platform

Oracle reveals a scalable cloud service to help companies with their billing requirements

12 years ago

Google Blames Gmail Outage On “Dual Network Failure”

Two network outages at the same time caused the problem

12 years ago

Oracle Opens Up With Cloud Marketplace And OpenStack Connectivity

Oracle getting a lot more open, even if Larry Ellison is more interested in his sailing team

12 years ago

SUSE Cloud 2.0 Available For Deployment

The OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud 2.0 platform is now available for deployment and download

12 years ago

Chrome Browser To Drop Old Netscape Plug-Ins

Google is to drop old Netscape plug-ins from its Chrome web browser in order to improve stability

12 years ago

Infoblox Promises Tapestry, Open Source Network Complexity Tool

How complex is your network? The Tapestry tool can tell you

12 years ago

Valve Announces SteamOS – A Linux-Based System For Gaming

The open source OS will be used to stream PC games and access media services on a living room TV

12 years ago

China Eases Internet Restrictions To Allow Facebook In Shanghai

China is opening up access to the likes of Facebook and Twitter in an area of Shanghai, whilst allowing foreign…

12 years ago

Mozilla Launches Firefox Preview For Windows 8 Tablets

The company wants user feedback ahead of the official release in December

12 years ago

Gmail Outage Hits Up To 212 Million Users

Google has restored service to Gmail after an outage of several hours, affecting nearly one-third of all Gmail messages

12 years ago

Spotify Shifts To HortonWorks’ Hadoop Platform

Music provider Spotify moves its burgeoning Big Data repository of music preferences from one Hadoop player to another

12 years ago

LinkedIn Denies It “Hacked” Third Party Email Accounts

The company will have to defend this position in court

12 years ago

CEOP Warns Child Abuse Online Is Evolving

Children as young as eight are being blackmailed into performing sex acts live on webcam

12 years ago

Ubuntu Touch Mobile OS Set For 17 October Launch

Ubuntu Mobile plans to press ahead despite crowdfunding failure of Ubuntu Edge

12 years ago

Tech City Is Not Enough: UK Firms Need Government Help to IPO

John Newton of Alfresco asks why are there so few British tech IPOs?

12 years ago

Facebook Briefly Appears On Russia’s Internet Blacklist

The social network had three days to avoid being banned across the country

12 years ago

Internet Explorer 11 Preview Arrives For Windows 7 Users

Windows 7 users can now take the next version of Internet Explorer (IE11) out for a test drive

12 years ago

Intel Explains Open Source, OpenStack Commitments

Intel’s open source executive explains the chipmaker’s commitment to open source and the OpenStack cloud

12 years ago

IBM Buys British In Big Data Move

IBM is to acquire Daeja, a British maker of software that helps users view large documents and images

12 years ago

Coverity Tackles Open-Source Defects

Coverity's testing solution is now used by the ANTLR open-source project to find and fix critical software defects

12 years ago

CERN Preparing Clouds For Big 2015 LHC Switch-On

As CERN prepares to restart the Collider, the IT guys are turning to OpenStack and a European Science Cloud for…

12 years ago

Linus Torvalds Jokes The NSA Wanted A Backdoor In Linux

Torvalds' LinuxCon keynote covered a lot more than the NSA backdoor joke, says Sean Michael Kerner

12 years ago

Oracle Grows Profit But Misses Expectations

Profits and revenues continue to grow at Larry Ellison’s company, but it still missed analyst expectations

12 years ago

Linux Is the Future… For Learning And Gaming?

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi and gamers, Linux is all set to come out on top, says Sean Michael Kerner

12 years ago

FutureLearn Launches Free Online University Courses

UK’s biggest provider of online education announces open beta stage

12 years ago

Taxpayer To Continue Bankrolling “Dismantled” NHS IT Project

National Programme for IT is likely to cost more than £9.8 billion

12 years ago

Mozilla Releases Firefox 24 And Fixes Security Issues

Mozilla has patched a number of security issues with the release of its Firefox 24 web browser

12 years ago

Russian Media Watchdog Threatens To Ban Facebook Over ‘Legal High’ Ads

Facebook says adverts for smoking blends were the result of a technical glitch

12 years ago