Software

Mozilla Plans ‘Aggressive’ Firefox OS Quarterly Update Schedule

Mozilla plans six-weekly security updates for the mobile OS too

11 years ago

Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Sets Record £20.8m Crowdsourcing Target

Canonical wants £20.8m to build 40,000 Ubuntu superphones

11 years ago

SUSE Starts Cloud 2.0 Beta Testing

SUSE has begun testing SUSE Cloud 2.0, its CloudStack-based technology for building private clouds

11 years ago

Win Campus Party Europe Tickets With TechWeekEurope!

We are giving away two pairs of tickets to Campus Party Europe, plus a 20% discount and 3 for 2…

11 years ago

Ubuntu Forums Hack Exposes 1.8m Accounts

Canonical advises members to change their passwords as soon as possible

11 years ago

Facebook Bangs Marketing Drum With Mobile User Growth

Facebook is talking up its reach on mobile devices as Brits head away on their annual holidays

11 years ago

Updated Google Maps App Arrives On iPhone, iPad

Users of Apple devices now have access to the updated Google Maps app that includes a number of enhancements

11 years ago

Intel Buys Into Gesture Recognition With Omek Acquisition

The chip manufacturer will pay close to $40m for an Israeli gesture recognition start-up

11 years ago

Google Play Store Updated With Improved Interface

Google applies the new user interface to its redesigned Play Store for desktop users

11 years ago

Amazon Brings MapR M7 Platform To Elastic MapReduce

MapR's M7 'ultimate decision machine' big data platform is now available on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce cloud infrastructure

11 years ago

Oracle Adds 2TB Option For Exalytics

Users of Oracle's Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4 now have the option of accessing 2TB of RAM, which could help with…

11 years ago

Barracuda Finds Booming Market For Fake Social Network Accounts

Barracuda Labs has found a 'strong economy' around the sale of fake followers on social media services, with competition leading…

12 years ago

Oracle Updates Java Tools For Mobile And Cloud

Oracle updates its Java developer tools to include better support for mobile and cloud technologies

12 years ago

Open Source Mourns Death Of Fedora Veteran

Longtime member of Red Hat's Fedora team Seth Vidal was killed on his bicycle by a hit-and-run driver

12 years ago

Google U-Turn Over Offline Maps Decision

In the wake of criticism, Google performs a quick u-turn over the decision to drop its offline Map function

12 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Linux

How well do you know the open source operating system?

12 years ago

Music Sharing Takes UK Team To The Imagine Cup 2013

Team Colinked want to share music between devices - and that desire got them to the Imagine Cup student competition…

12 years ago

Google Updates Maps App For Android

Google's improved Maps app for Android devices has arrived, but iOS users will have to wait a little longer

12 years ago

Peter Sunde: Would Someone Kill The Pirate Bay Already?

Co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, can't escape the shadow of his creation

12 years ago

The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Unveils Anti-Snooping App

Peter Sunde hoping to launch a less controversial technology with the Heml.is secure messaging application

12 years ago

Microsoft Launches Imagine Cup 2013

Students from 71 countries meet in St Petersburg with a chance for a prize from Matt "The Doctor" Smith

12 years ago

Tizen App Contest Tempts With £2.7m Cash Prize

Intel and Samsung announce an App contest for the Tizen mobile OS, with $4 million in prizes on offer

12 years ago

Microsoft Office Expands BI And App Options

Microsoft Office continues its enterprise expansion by growing its Apps ecosystem and BI options

12 years ago

CA Partners ExaGrid For Midmarket Backup

CA Technologies and ExaGrid combine their backup/recovery software into one customised appliance

12 years ago

Post Office Admits Bugs Amidst Software Row

Horizon software has some flaws, but is working effectively, Post Office says

12 years ago

Sony’s SmartWatch 2 To Launch In The UK Next Week

The clever timepiece is available for pre-order at £120

12 years ago

HTC Sees Slump Despite HTC One Success

HTC’s second quarter results contain some positives, but are below expectations

12 years ago

Fedora Project Unleashes Schrödinger’s Cat

Fedora 19 features better developer tools and more GUI options, and switches from MySQL to MariaDB

12 years ago