Software

Canonical Releases ‘Precise Pangolin’ Beta

Ubuntu 12.04 is the first long-term release to use the Unity desktop, and includes power-saving and hardware support tweaks

13 years ago

Content Carries No Legal Liability For Hosts Of Social Media Sites

Google's Blogger site has been likened to a wall of graffiti in a landmark decision that it cannot be sued…

13 years ago

ASA Sides With Vodafone And Apple Over Siri’s Lack Of UK Help

The ad watchdog has decided that weather details constitute sufficient support for location-based services

13 years ago

Gnip And DataSift Begin Selling Archived And Analysed Tweets

Two research companies, partnered with Twitter, launch archived public data Tweet packages for sale to marketeers

13 years ago

Cray Makes Big Data Move With Analytics Appliance

Cray is aiming to assist companies dealing with 'big data' analytics with the launch of its new graph appliance

13 years ago

Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta Made Available For Testing

Windows Server 8 beta has been released to IT departments for testing and to gain feedback on refining the final…

13 years ago

Mozilla Launches Collusion Data Tracking Firefox Add-On

New tool aims to help users see who is tracking their web activity and to better understand tracking

13 years ago

Chrome Browser’s Market Share Inflated By Pre-Rendering

Google's Chrome Web browser remained at 18.9 percent share for February as Net Applications adjusted to allow for pre-rendering

13 years ago

Facebook Timeline Makeover For Pages Offers Better Ad Canvas

Facebook's Timeline user interface has been applied to its Pages promotional palettes for organisations and brands

13 years ago

IntraLinks Offers Secure Intra-Company Mobile Collaboration Environment

IntraLinks Connect secures and audits access to files stored in its Cloud for remote access by any device, with the…

13 years ago

Facebook Announces Premium Advertising Tools

Brands given Timeline-formatted pages, mobile ads and Reach Generator in pre-IPO effort to raise revenue

13 years ago

Google Pushes Out Its Privacy Policy Changes Despite Regulatory Disdain

Google is going ahead with privacy policy changes today despite pleas from European Union and US officials

13 years ago

New Metrics From Android Market Arm Developers With App Usage Statistics

Google's application metrics dashboard for Android Market now informs developers how their products are faring with users

13 years ago

VMware Helps Java Developers Handle Big Data With Spring Hadoop

VMware's Spring Hadoop targets enterprise Java developers who want to create Big Data analysis applications

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Huawei Adds Its Backing To Tizen Mobile OS

Android beware, Huawei has added its backing to Tizen just as a beta of the new mobile operating system has…

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Microsoft Opens Windows 8 For Public Testing

Consumers can now preview Microsoft's forthcoming operating system as Windows 8 opens for free, public download

13 years ago

Strange Android Devices Try To Make A Monkey Of Apple’s Gorilla

Tablet makers, realising they can’t beat the iPad 3, are trying to play different games instead. Wayne Rash asks: will…

13 years ago

HP To Axe Half Of The WebOS Workforce

275 webOS workers lose their jobs despite HP's previous assurances they would be redeployed

13 years ago

Raspberry Pi Launch – A PC For The Price Of A Pair Of Jeans

£22 or less can buy a Linux-based computer to teach the principles of computing to a new generation of programmers

13 years ago

HP Tackles Security Risks With Integrated Platform

HP is to assist businesses struggling to tighten up their security with an integrated platform that spans multiple environments

13 years ago

Pinterest Users Blocked From Sharing Flickr Photos

Photo sharing site implements 'do not pin' code as Pinterest reaffirms commitment to copyright protection

13 years ago

MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn

The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead

13 years ago

Apple Threatens To Pull British Siri Rival From App Store

Apple is said to be planning to pull the voice assistant Evi app from its App Store, because it is…

13 years ago

Facebook To Tackle Open Source Storage Hardware

Social networking site plans to build own storage hardware to handle growing number of user uploads

13 years ago

Most Councils Now Allow Employees To Access Social Media

Almost all councils in the UK permit some form of access to social media, a Socitm survey has revealed

13 years ago

Report: Microsoft Office 15 To Get Touch Mode

Microsoft will add a new mode to its upcoming version of Office making it more suitable for touch-screen devices

13 years ago

LinkedIn Continues Acquisition Spree With Rapportive Buy

LinkedIn has acquired Gmail contact management service Rapportive for an undisclosed amount

13 years ago

Google Agrees Not To Track Users, If They Ask Nicely

More than 400 companies agree to help implement the browser “do-not-track” button

13 years ago

Smartphone Social Media Users Are Prone To Identity Theft

Smartphone owners and social media users are more likely to become victims of identity theft, claims Javelin Strategy

13 years ago

Microsoft Bing Allows Users To Link Their Names To Web Pages

Microsoft's Bing, which still trails Google Search. has added a feature to let a user to associate pages from around…

13 years ago