Canonical announces Ubuntu for phones
Canonical has announced Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for Android, which will be shown off at CES this month. It will be available in two flavours for low end smartphones and high end superphones.
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WhatsApp sets up new single day record for the most published messages
WhatsApp sets a new single day record on December 31 for the most messages published, processing 18 billion total messages and exceeding its previous record of 10 billion messages.
Google data centres could boost services in India
Google is setting up data centres in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with special focus on India. This is expected to speed up Google services in the country like YouTube and Google Hangout by more than 30pc.
Expectations from Microsoft in 2013
We may see Surface 2, Windows Blue, Windows Phone 8.5, Office 2013 and a new Xbox in 2013.
Windows RT Running on the HTC HD2
Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, a crafty hacker has got their latest tablet OS Windows RT running on a mobile, the HTC HD2.
More than 40pc rise in developer revenue on Windows Phone in last 30 days
Microsoft says that there has been a rise of more than 40pc in the developer revenue of the past 30 days since the launch of SDK. Reflecting on the previous year, it said that more than 75000 new apps have been published and users are installing more and more apps than ever before.
The Ouya Console Dev Kit Starts Shipping
The Ouya has started shipping the initial developer versions of the console.
Ada 2012 approved as a standard by ISO
The programming language Ada has finally received approval from the ISO as a standard under which it will be known as Ada 2012. It has added new features including major enhancements like contract based programming, increased expressiveness and multi-core support.
Google Disables Silent Extensions Installs for Chrome
Google has made it a little more difficult for third-party applications to forcefully install their extensions onto Chrome.