Death by paperwork
Twitter has effectively killed UK-based Tweetdeck Ltd just two years after it bought the social media dashboard for $40m.…
Oracle, SAP under attack: How cloud upstarts steal their lunch
Biz bosses can’t wait to offload gear to rivals, or so we’re told
Analysis After more than 20 years coining it, the Goliaths of the lucrative enterprise software world are about to meet their Davids: nimble rivals touting technology at a sensible price.…
In space, no one can hear your laptop Blue Screen
Way above the Cloud, there’s a bring-your-own-disaster brewing on the ISS
Stob Reg columnist Verity Stob says she’s uncovered the following string of eye-opening electronic missives between the International Space Station’s crew members. First, some context:…
BMC successfully sells self
Private equity mob shells out $US6.9bn for management software outfit
Enterprise software company BMC has agreed to be acquired by a troika of private equity companies, who will hand over $US46.25 of cash for each outstanding share in the company.…
Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only
Demos hardware magic wand and Project Napoleon
Adobe had been expected to demo Creative Suite 7 at its MAX conference down in smoky Los Angeles on Monday, but instead announced there’ll be no more versions of its boxed software and that the Creative Suite brand will cease to exist. All CS apps updates will only be added to its Creative Cloud suite, and Adobe showed off some new tools to tempt its software stick-in-the-muds online.…
China’s internet security giant Qihoo planning global domination
Founder Zhou shares his own Chinese dream
Controversial Chinese software vendor Qihoo 360 has its eyes on world domination after controversial founder Zhou Hongyi told the local press he wants to turn the firm into the planet’s biggest web security biz.…
Debian 7 debuts
Wheezy wheels out with extra cloud power
Debian 7, which glories in the code name “Wheezy”, is officially upon us.…
Look ma, no plugins! Streaming web video with just JavaScript
Mozilla, Otoy debut high-speed codec for any browser
Mozilla and Los Angeles, California–based graphics software company Otoy have jointly announced ORBX.js, a new JavaScript library which the companies say can deliver full 1080p, 60fps digital video in a browser window using only web standards–based technologies.…
Google Chrome slips web fix to addicts suffering net withdrawal
Cache and carry on surfing
A Google engineer has bunged an “offline mode” into the advertising giant’s cloud-backed Chrome web browser. It allows users to access previously visited pages if there’s suddenly no working internet connection.…
Anonymity ZUCKS: Facebook’s Instagram to switch on face tagging
#ThatsNotMyNakedSelfie… bitch
Oversharing narcissists will be able to reveal who is pictured in their cloud-stored Instagram photos – by tagging people in the colour-mangled snaps.…
