Software

Microsoft Signs Up To Bug Bounties With £65,000 Reward

Microsoft has finally joined the bug bounty movement and promises to pay for vulnerability discoveries

12 years ago

Cumulus Targets Data Centre Networks With Linux OS

A startup is challenging Cisco with its Cumulus Linux operating system for data centre networks

12 years ago

Microsoft Expands Azure With ERP For SMBs

Microsoft continues to increase the products on Windows Azure after adding an ERP product to the platform

12 years ago

Google Game Showcases WebRTC Communications

Google's Cube Slam game makes use of WebRTC, a browser technology that enables video chat without plug-ins

12 years ago

Skype Introduces Video Messaging To Help Reach Offline Contacts

Skype users on all platforms can now send three minute video snippets alongside text messages

12 years ago

Symbian Is Officially Over

Once most popular mobile OS on the planet, Symbian bites the dust as last phones leave the factory

12 years ago

Cray Adds Intel Hadoop To Supercomputer Clusters

Cray will use Intel's Hadoop distribution for its turnkey big data computing infrastructure

12 years ago

Red Hat To Abandon MySQL In Favour Of MariaDB

Open source enthusiasts concerned with Oracle’s ownership of MySQL now have an alternative

12 years ago

Maude Promises More Open Data After Shakespeare Review

Cabinet Office announces a range of fresh open data projects

12 years ago

Facebook To Use Chilly Arctic Air For New Data Centre

Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the United States with a green facility in Sweden

12 years ago

Sony Unlocks Access To SmartWatch Firmware

Now enthusiasts can write their own OS for the clever timepiece

12 years ago

Google App Engine Gains ‘Significant’ Update

Google App Engine receives 'significant changes' in an update that includes support for Python and PHP apps

12 years ago

Yahoo Continues Spending Spree, Buying Rondee And GhostBird

The company goes berserk and snaps up two start-ups in a single day

12 years ago

EU Heralds Open Data Boom After Parliament Votes For New Rules

Open data rules set to be enshrined in law by 2015

12 years ago

Red Hat Backs OpenStack For Cloud Attack On VMware

Red Hat has delivered a commercial version of OpenStack and is ready to take on VMware

12 years ago

Facebook Brings Hashtags To Platform

Facebook set to look a little more like Twitter - covered in hashtags

12 years ago

Oracle Looks To HTML5 With Java EE 7 Release

Oracle has added support for HTML5 development, as well as new enterprise features in the Java EE 7 release

12 years ago

Patch Tuesday Brings Critical Internet Explorer Fix

Microsoft fixes critical flaws in IE, but doesn't patch another revealed by Google researcher Tavis Ormandy

12 years ago

Tech Giants Ask US Government For More Post-PRISM Transparency

Facebook, Google and others urge the US government to be more transparent on what data it asks for

12 years ago

Google Confirms £831m Waze Navigation Purchase

Google has flexed its financial muscle and snapped up Waze, which had also been courted by Apple and Facebook

12 years ago

Wayra London Kicks Off Its First Start-Up Internship Fair

The start-up accelerator thinks young companies should hire interns as soon as they can

12 years ago

iRobot Teams With Cisco On TelePresence Robot

The Ava 500 system uses Cisco's TelePresence EX60 joined with an Ava mobile collaboration robot

12 years ago

Google Reportedly Agrees To Buy Waze For Over $1 Billion

The start-up courted by Apple, Facebook and now Google seems to have found its new owner

12 years ago

European Commission ‘Concerned’ At PRISM Privacy Threat

Commissioners Viviane Reding and Cecilia Malmström express their concern about US mass surveillance

12 years ago

Raspberry Pi Gets Noobs Software For Ease Of Use

Raspberry Pi now has “noob software” to make it easier to use for non-technically minded and beginners

12 years ago

Google Opens Up Maps Engine API For Developers

Google move allows developers to add Google Maps capabilities to their own applications

12 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Android

Test your knowledge of Google's mobile operating system!

12 years ago

Google’s Next Madcap Idea: Facial Expression Authentication

Google tries to patent facial expression logins, but experts don't think it's worth the bother

12 years ago

LeWeb 2013: Viber – 200 Million Users Are Just The Start

Talmon Marco, founder and CEO of instant messaging service Viber, tells TechWeekEurope that 200 million users are not enough

12 years ago