Anticipating where bottlenecks are going to develop in a live database has been one of the most bankable skills any self-respecting database administrator can have, yet researchers may now have figured out a set of algorithms that can do this automatically.…
Microsoft has announced that it will ship fixes and updates for the Windows Store apps that come bundled with Windows 8 and Windows RT as soon as they are available, rather than issuing them in batches as it does for the rest of Windows.…
It’s all change at Google as Andy Rubin, the man who shepherded Android into becoming the world’s biggest mobile operating system, is stepping down in favor of Chrome OS boss Sundar Pichai.…
Adobe is moving ahead with plans to phase out the boxed, retail versions of its Creative Suite and Acrobat software families, in favor of a distribution model based exclusively on digital downloads and subscriptions.…
Amazon Web Services dominates the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud computing market, and is dramatically growing its share in platform-as-a-service as well, according to reasonably-believable research figures.…
Oracle has announced plans to acquire Nimbula, an purchase that gives the database company a route into the open source OpenStack cloud management system, and a private cloud software stack as well.…
First it was developer tools, then Kinect for the PC, now Microsoft’s given hackers a shot at the Kinect code under an open-source license.…
Ubuntu developer Michael Hall has posted screenshots of early versions of what Canonical is calling the “Core Apps” for Ubuntu Touch, the new flavor of the popular Linux distribution that’s being rewritten to run on mobile devices as well as PCs.…
A whopping 85 per cent of smartphone users reckon local apps are better than websites, but they’re an impatient bunch and expect a gentle touch to be rewarded within seconds or they’ll go elsewhere.…
Software engineers can finally switch lights on and off, and change their colour, without resorting to hardware controls – thanks to the Philips Hue SDK and its RESTful interface.…
