Monthly Archives: July 2017

With the release of the Fall Creators update for Windows 10, many of the old features and apps which came preloaded with the Windows OS won’t be available to users anymore. Fall Creators update is the next major version of Windows 10 and will be released on all Windows 10 devices between September and November…

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Google has announced the launch of the first reCAPTCHA Android API as part of Google Play Services, aiming to better tell humans and bots apart on mobile. The older versions of reCAPTCHA have been refined to create a version that can provide interruption-free, streamlined user experience – the Invisible reCAPTCHA in March 2017 – which…

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Google will now punish Android developers who incentivise users to leave positive reviews under new Play Store rules. Fake reviews have long been the scourge of most app stores and shady third-party services are available which can automate reviews or even have staff manually leaving false positive reviews in a bid to boost the app’s…

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The infamous Raspberry Pi compute board has built a loyal following that’s proving difficult even for companies such as Intel to compete with, but it could be set to gain even more fans as Microsoft is building an online simulator. Pi is designed to be inexpensive with even the latest, highest-end model costing just £32/$35 but it…

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The latest beta of iOS 11 has been seeded to developers (and consumers who like to live dangerously) around the globe, and Apple has wasted no time in making some needed fixes and implementing new features. One of the most noticeable changes from iOS 10 to iOS 11 is to the Control Center. In the…

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Microsoft this week announced the availability of Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distro as a free download in the Windows Store. It can be installed on any Windows Insider build, said Microsoft Senior Program Manager Rich Turner. There are some distinct advantages to using the Windows Store version of the Ubuntu Linux Distro: The software can be…

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Are you thinking of making changes to your site? Perhaps an update or a redesign? Before you jump in head first, you should know there is a quicker and safer way to do that. Enter website staging. A handful of hosting companies offer website staging to their clients and this article aims to unveil all…

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Increasingly, we are seeing web applications that are developed using a single page architecture, where the entire application is loaded into the browser as JavaScript and then all interactions with the server are carried out using HTTP based APIs that return JSON documents. Often, these applications will require some level of user-restricted interactions, e.g. for…

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Amazon and WhatsApp have been scolded by the privacy campaigning group the Electronic Frontier Foundation over their “disappointing” privacy practices, and told that they can and should be doing better in its yearly review. The seventh annual Who Has Your Back privacy report analysed the policies and public actions of 26 companies, rating them out…

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Microsoft has bundled up its core products for businesses for a monthly fee, to encourage companies to upgrade to Windows 10. Its new offering, Microsoft 365, includes Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, for a monthly, per-user fee. By wrapping its products into one package, Microsoft is making it easier for businesses…

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