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Windows 10 is rapidly gaining on Windows XP
Microsoft will be quietly pleased to learn that Windows 10 is inching closer to surpassing the venerable Windows XP operating system in terms of desktop market share. End of year stats from Internet analytics firm Net Applications reveal that Windows 10 has now accumulated a 9.96 percent share of the desktop operating system market, landing it ...
Yahoo looks to sell off Santa Clara development site amid ongoing restructuring efforts
Yahoo! Inc. has wrapped up a difficult year by announcing it’s looking to sell a 48.6-acre development site in Santa Clara it’s owned for several years. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that the site, located near Levi’s Stadium, has been owned by Yahoo since 2006, back when the massive Web company was still growing. ...
Ex-Yandex employee convicted of trying to sell its search engine source code
A former employee of Russian Internet giant Yandex, the dominant search engine in that country, has been handed a two-year suspended jail sentence for stealing and trying to sell the source code for Yandex Search online. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that Dmitry Korobov stole the code before quitting the company and trying to find ...
Stupid Patent of the Month award goes to Microsoft
Microsoft has landed the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) revered “Stupid Patent of the Month” award for December after claiming it ‘invented’ the incredibly simple “slider bar” in its ongoing court battler with Canadian firm Corel Corp. The peculiar thing is that graphical slider bars have been around for eons, yet Microsoft was somehow granted a ...
LinkedIn reflects on its open-source successes in 2015
With 2015 coming to an end, LinkedIn Corp. has taken a look back at its year of using, developing and contributing to open-source software. Throughout the last year, LinkedIn made some of its biggest ever contributions to the open-source community by releasing ten new original projects, including Burrow, Goblin and Pinot, while pushing major updates ...
Debian founder Ian Murdock dies aged 42
Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock has passed away. The news of his passing was announced by Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub in a blog post yesterday. Murdock, who was 42 years old, was best known for founding the Debian project, one of the most popular and widely used Linux distributions, and one of the first ...
Google to dump Oracle’s APIs for OpenJDK in Android
Google has been involved in a legal dispute with database vendor Oracle that’s dragged on for years, but now it looks like the search engine giant is maneuvering, either because it wants to make the outcome of the case irrelevant, or because it’s fearing a less than favorable outcome. Google said yesterday it’s planning to ...
No rest for the wicked: IT pros report being ‘overworked’ at Xmas
The festive season might be in full swing, but for dozens of IT teams across the country they barely have time to unwrap their Christmas stockings before being called into action to deal with urgent system problems that crop up over the holidays. A new survey of 378 IT professionals just published by software firm ...
Managed services provider Steel Orca goes bust
Pennsylvania-based managed data center services provider Steel Orca Inc. is filing for bankruptcy after failing in an attempt to transform a defunct steel mill on the state border with New Jersey into a new data center, reports say. Steel Orca, which also has a data center facility in Princeton, New Jersey, voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 ...
Facebook’s open-source software blitz hits new heights in 2015
Facebook’s React Native, a framework for building native apps using React, its open-source JavaScript library that provides a view for data rendered as HTML, has risen to become the social media giant’s second most popular open-source project just nine months after its launch. The revelation was made by Christine Abernathy, Developer Advocate for the Open ...