European Technology

Archive: 10-2012

• Are these the dev skills you’ll need to survive in the cloud?

  As businesses use increasing numbers of cloud and mobile apps, here are some of the skills developers could need to stay relevant to the business of tomorrow.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 18, 2012, 4:17 AM PDT

• Facebook on the cost of going native on the iPhone

  Facebook has spent the past year training hundreds of web developers to code native apps for Android and iPhone devices after finding its HTML5 mobile app fell short in performance and polish.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 17, 2012, 3:08 AM PDT

• Raspberry Pi upgrade juices up memory

  A new version of the Raspberry Pi board has been released with double the memory for the same price.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 15, 2012, 1:09 AM PDT

• Landmark Ferranti lives again: One man’s love letter to early AI

  Recreating a 1950s love-letter chatbot helped bring the seminal Ferranti Mark I computer back to life.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 12, 2012, 10:14 AM PDT

• Internet censorship: Let it rot in walled gardens

  Attempts to shut us up in walled gardens and curb our online freedoms are impossible to implement and police. The nature of the internet sees to it that they are doomed to fail.

  Posted by Richard Hillesley | October 11, 2012, 5:30 AM PDT

• SAP licensing: Complexity leaves users confused on cost

  ERP specialist SAP is called on to simplify its software licensing to make it easier for users to pay only for the software and services they use.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 10, 2012, 7:14 AM PDT

• How big data could help airlines get wind of hurricanes

  Travel-technology firm Sabre on how big-data analytics could help airlines warn travellers of potential disruptions days in advance and make travel sites better at predicting your dream destination.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 8, 2012, 7:31 AM PDT

• Life inside an offshore software development hub

  A glimpse of what it’s like to work at a software development centre in Krakow, Poland.

  Posted by Nick Heath | October 4, 2012, 2:35 AM PDT

• Short-termism and stupidity - the blight of tech investments

  Business decisions based on upfront costs alone invariably turn out to be expensive mistakes. Yet too many tech decisions remain based on an unhappy combination of ignorance and knee-jerk reactions.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | October 4, 2012, 2:28 AM PDT

• Open-source development: The history of OpenOffice shows why licensing matters

  Governance and licensing aren’t glamorous but getting them right is vital to open-source software’s long-term health.

  Posted by Richard Hillesley | October 2, 2012, 6:33 AM PDT