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Futuremark launches 3DMark for Windows RT
16 October 2013, 11:45
Uses the same 3D 'Ice Storm' benchmark tests as in Android and iOS editions.
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Windows Phone 8 Update 3 adds support for bigger screens
14 October 2013, 17:00
Update also adds Snapdragon 800 SoC support and screen rotation lock.
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Qualcomm unveils ‘brain inspired’ Zeroth chips
14 October 2013, 11:00
Zeroth equipped robot learned via ‘positive reinforcement’ rather than programming.
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All users to be searchable in Facebook as privacy setting axed
11 October 2013, 10:45
‘Who can look up your Timeline by name’ privacy settings get removed.
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Microsoft awards $100,000 bug bounty to UK security researcher
10 October 2013, 12:15
James Forshaw, from Context Information Security, found exploits in Windows 8.1.
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Office for iPad to arrive after it is made touch-friendly for Windows
9 October 2013, 11:00
Steve Ballmer revealed this news, and more, at a Gartner-sponsored event yesterday.
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Google’s new Chrome browser aims to be a cuckoo in Windows 8
7 October 2013, 11:15
Latest dev channel Chrome browser looks and works like fully fledged ChromeOS.
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Gesture recognition startup Flutter snapped up by Google
3 October 2013, 14:45
Deal could bring native gesture recognition to Google Glass and Android devices.
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Microsoft adds ‘smart files’ OCR capability to SkyDrive
1 October 2013, 09:49
Adds the ability to search for text strings in your SkyDrive photo uploads.
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AMD and Raptr launch the AMD Gaming Evolved App (beta)
30 September 2013, 10:45
It’s the red team’s version of the GeForce Experience games optimisation app.
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Microsoft publishes first Windows 8.1 commercial
30 September 2013, 09:45
It’s optimistically entitled “Windows 8.1 Everywhere”.
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Google shifts to new ‘Hummingbird’ search algorithm
27 September 2013, 11:00
And it celebrates its 15th birthday with an interactive piñata doodle.
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Windows Phone and Windows app stores to merge in spring
27 September 2013, 09:45
Also Windows Phone and Windows RT are expected to combine.
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Major update to VLC Media player includes hardware decoding
26 September 2013, 16:30
Also around a thousand bugs in the software have been quashed.
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AMD unveils Radeon R9 and R7 series graphics cards in Hawaii
26 September 2013, 10:00
Also details innovative Mantle and AMD TrueAudio technologies.
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GPU acceleration to provide tenfold Java performance boost
24 September 2013, 14:00
IBM's Chief Technology Officer of Java discussed ‘Java on GPU’ in keynote speech.
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Valve reveals SteamOS, a Linux for your living room
24 September 2013, 10:08
This is just the first of three announcements from Valve this week.
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Firefox made touch friendly for Windows 8 in Aurora release
23 September 2013, 09:45
Touch friendly Firefox is getting much closer to general release with this milestone.
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As new iPhones hit retail an iOS 7 lock screen vulnerability is found
20 September 2013, 09:00
Also UK pre-orders for the new Apple iPhone 5C have been “a big disappointment”.
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Android CyanogenMod team raise $7m to found a company
19 September 2013, 16:35
The first aim is to make CyanogenMod easy and safe to install via a Play Store app.
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New computing curriculum welcomed by IT industry
18 September 2013, 14:33
Curriculum ambitiously "focuses on computational thinking", rather than MS Office.
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Apple iOS7 global rollout starts today, what’s new?
18 September 2013, 11:30
Also people around the world start to form queues for the new iPhones.
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Windows 8.1 pricing and packaging revealed
18 September 2013, 10:00
Microsoft also says you will be able to install Windows 8.1 from scratch.
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Latest Intel Iris and HD graphics driver offers 26 bug fixes
17 September 2013, 14:30
New Haswell and Ivy Bridge drivers support Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems.
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Google buys Bump, to simplify non-NFC file sharing
17 September 2013, 11:15
Seamless cross-platform file sharing experience to become a standard?
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3-Sweep software grabs 2D photo objects and changes them into 3D
16 September 2013, 12:30
Quick and intuitive software aimed at “novice users” demonstrated in video.
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Siri-equivalent in Windows Phone 8.1 comes from hit game Halo
13 September 2013, 14:15
So you may have previously met ‘Cortana’, Microsoft’s new personal assistant.
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Dryft, for fast typing on tablets, revealed by Swype co-founder
10 September 2013, 15:23
The soft-keys position themselves on screen to suit your hand placement. (video)
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Microsoft U-turn: gives devs early access to Windows 8.1 RTM
10 September 2013, 09:45
Also the near-final Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is made available.
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Most online encryption is transparent to NSA and GCHQ
6 September 2013, 13:53
New Edward Snowden leak reveals the extent to which security services can pry.
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Google’s next Android version to be named after Nestle’s KitKat
4 September 2013, 09:45
Key Lime Pie wasn’t populist enough: “very few people know the taste of a key lime pie.”
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Simple Arabic text string instantly crashes OS X 10.8 and iOS 6 apps
30 August 2013, 11:54
However new OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 beta are not affected by the 'unicode of death'.
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AMD collaborates with Mixamo for real-time 3D face animation
29 August 2013, 15:45
Mixamo's 'Face Plus' software facilitates facial animation creation for Unity game developers.
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