solutions & apps

BCS Adds Agile Testing Certificate

BCS has introduced a certificate for agile software testers, reflecting the growing importance of agile development techniques

13 years ago

Half Of PC Users Are Pirates, Says Study

One in four UK computer users have installed unlicensed software, says BSA

13 years ago

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio JavaScript Tools

Visual Studio 11, Microsoft's flagship development platform with Windows 8 support, will include improved support for JavaScript developers

13 years ago

EU Competition Watchdog Sniffs At Windows RT

It is unclear whether Microsoft is going to break the 2009 EU “browser choice” agreement

13 years ago

Twitter Buys Email Marketer RestEngine

Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a start-up that makes tools aimed at boosting engagement in social games and other social-media applications

13 years ago

Oracle Adds Features To ZFS NAS Appliance

Oracle has unveiled the Sun-developed ZFS Storage 7420 NAS appliance, and upgraded JD Edwards' Enterprise One application

13 years ago

TechWeekEurope Tests John Lewis’ Virtual Fashion Mirrors

Trying on clothes without getting undressed? Now that’s augmented reality!

13 years ago

Gmail Gets Free Analytics

Gmail Meter allows users to analyse their own writing and filing patterns to get a better idea of how they…

13 years ago

Oracle: Google ‘Knew It Was Doing The Wrong Thing’

In the opening statement of its trial against Google, Oracle has argued the search giant was aware it was using…

13 years ago

IBM Acquires Varicent For Analytics Expertise

IBM is to buy Varicent, which makes software for automating and analysing the collection and reporting of cross-departmental sales data

13 years ago

SAP Buys Syclo, The Mobile Enterprise Specialists

The acquisition should make BYOD with SAP relatively painless

13 years ago

Wikimedia Foundation Drops Google Maps

The Wikimedia Foundation has shifted away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap in its mobile applications, following a wider trend

13 years ago

Facebook Buys Instagram Over Protests Of Some Users

Facebook is to pay £630m for Instagram, though some of the photo-sharing app's 30 million users have complained that the…

13 years ago

Dell On Spending Spree As Make Technologies Acquisition Announced

Dell has announced that it will acquire legacy modernisation software provider Make Technologies

13 years ago

TomTom Sat-Navs Lose Their Way

A “leap year bug” blamed on the third-party software caused GPS navigation devices to lose the connection

13 years ago

Apache Promotes Big Data Tool

Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status…

13 years ago

Chrome 18 Adds Hardware Acceleration

Google's freshly released Chrome 18 browser adds hardware-accelerated Canvas rendering for applications such as games

13 years ago

Druva Adds Mobile Capabilities To Backup Service

Druva's on-premises enterprise configuration can now control 100,000 devices from a single console

13 years ago

Met Police To Use 1980s Software To Safeguard Olympics

Scotland Yard has confirmed that the Met will be using command and control software from the 1980s during this summer's…

13 years ago

Encyclopaedia Britannica Ditches Paper For Digital

The oldest English-language encyclopaedia in production will now depend on Internet and Apps

13 years ago

MapR Hadoop Inks Informatica Tie-In

The MapR Hadoop open source batch analytics software package will become available with Informatica's data integration platform through four different…

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

Barclays Launches Pingit For Mobile Money Transfers

UK bank Barclays launches smartphone app allowing money to be sent and received using a phone number

13 years ago

Google Agrees Landmark Deal With BBVA For Google Apps

Spanish bank's 110,000 staff will use Google Apps for Business by the end of 2012

13 years ago

Facebook Launches Timeline-based Profile Redesign

Users can try out the Timeline of their Facebook life before its official release next week

13 years ago

Google Takes Street View To Post-Tsunami Japan

Google adds 'before and after' images of areas of Japan affected by March's earthquake and tsunami

13 years ago

Twitter Redesign Promotes Business Branding Pages

Twitter is to receive a facelift which it claims will benefit users and give businesses prominence

13 years ago

Web App Boosts Volunteers For Crisis At Christmas

A more efficient application process improves volunteer rates for homeless charity Crisis at Christmas

13 years ago

LibreOffice Celebrates First Anniversary

It's one year since the Document Foundation created LibreOffice from the Oracle-controlled OpenOffice.org

13 years ago