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Docker Founder Talks Of New Tool And Open-Source Lessons He Learned
Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, details his firm's open-source experience and releases new tools at the OSCON conference
Microsoft Moves Open Source Jenkins Project To Azure
Significant customer partnership for Microsoft cloud, as Jenkins project infrastructure moves to Azure
NetSuite Offers Unified Billing System To ERP Customers With SuiteBilling
New billing suite aims to unify the entire billing process, no matter what business model is in use
How Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More Secure
Emily Ratliff of the Linux Foundation explains the considerations to take when planning to fuzz your open source project
Updated £4 Raspberry Pi Zero Adds Camera Connector
'Thousands' of Raspberry Pi Zero devices will be built every day to satisfy demand for the cheapest flavour of Pi
Microsoft Publishes Office 365 Education Roadmap
Microsoft offers students and teachers forward insight into its plans for Office 365 for the education market
Windows 10 Is Now Running On 300 Million PCs, Tablets And Smartphones
But Microsoft warns users to act fast to update, as free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends on 29 July
DuckDuckGo Stumps Up Cash For Open Source Projects
Anonymous Internet search engine DuckDuckGo announces funding awards for worthy open source projects
EMC Embraces Open Source With New EMC {code} Projects
EMC broadens open source contributions with 'Polly' for storage scheduling and new enhancements to REX-Ray storage orchestration engine
Microsoft Stops Cortana Working With Anything Except Bing And Edge
Searches made using Cortana will only open in Bing and Microsoft Edge as struggle for browser and search market share intensifies
Two Thirds Of Software Firms Contribute To Open Source
A majoirty of businesses are now using or contributing to open source projects, as adoption of the technology goes mainstream
Fake Social Button Plug-in Redirects To Exploit Kit, Warns Malwarebytes
Notorious Angler exploit kit is hiding as social buttons on hacked WordPress websites, says Malwarebytes
Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04
Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04
Web Hosting Site Squarespace Suffers Major Outage
Over a million Squarespace sites are down following second major hosting service downtime in the last week
Quiz Of The Week: Facebook
Facebook is the world's biggest social network and one of the most influential firms in Silicon Valley, but what do you know about it?
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Tackles Tame Badlock Flaw
Much hyped “critical” Badlock flaw tamer than first thought, and only warrants “important” label
Hortonworks Tackles Cybercrime With Open Source Apache Metron
Apache Metron community is a vital army in the battle against cybercriminals, says Hortonworks
Windows XP Is Still Running On A Tenth Of All Desktops
Veteran software remains the third most popular version of Windows, despite support ending two years ago
Microsoft Tests Ad-Free Outlook.com Premium At £2.81
Microsoft tests monthly free for Outlook.com premium, which will offer personalised email, better calendar sharing and remove adverts
Open Network Insight Project Builds On Big Data To Improve Security
The open-source effort, which is backed by Cloudera, Intel, eBay and others, is seeing early adoption, as organizations aim to gain the upper hand on attackers
Slack Secures £141m In Fresh Funding For Business Collaboration Push
Three year old Slack is now worth £2.7bn as it looks to continue rapid rise from startup to business tool
Microsoft Looks Beyond Mouse And Keyboard With Windows 10 ‘Anniversary Update’
Free ‘Anniversary Update’ will be available to all Windows 10 users from this summer
Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10
Microsoft is launching a Windows Subsystem on Linux and has partnered with Canonical to deliver ‘Ubuntu on Windows’ for Windows 10
Microsoft Apologises For Offensive Chatbot Tweets
Microsoft's artificially intelligent bot began tweeting inappropriate messages and had to be deactivated within a day
Kindle: Update Software Now Or Kiss Book Downloads Goodbye
Amazon warns that old versions of Kindle software must be updated today or users will lose the connectivity needed to download new books
Jive CEO: Consumer Services Can’t Solve Business Collaboration
JiveWorld 2016: CEO Elise Steele says rivals like Facebook at Workcan't match business focus and won't stop Jive from achieving profitability
What Is Apache Spark And Why Choose It?
Tugdual Grall, technical evangelist at MapR Technologies, looks at the rise of Apache Spark and why everyone’s talking about it
Steve Ballmer: Linux Is No Longer ‘A Cancer’
Feisty ex boss of Microsoft ends hostility to Linux operating system and praises Satya Nadella's open source commitments
Microsoft Browsers Fixed In Latest Patch Tuesday
Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer browsers gain fixes for critical flaws in latest security update