Day: October 15, 2013

Former Valve devs Kickstart new gaming headset

Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have developed castAR, a new headset for 3D augmented-reality and virtual-reality gaming…….


The Curious Mind of Ada Lovelace

An anonymous reader writes “Going beyond the usual soundbites about Ada Lovelace, Amy Jollymore explores the life of the worlds first programmer: ‘When I heard that Ada Lovelace Day was coming, I questioned myself, “What do I actually know about Ada Lovelace?” The sum total of my knowledge: Ada was the first woman programmer and…


Will Apple’s new retail chief think different?

Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts has already made a name for herself elevating customer experience at Burberry. Can she do the same for Apple?……


Twitter doubles third-quarter revenue to $168 million

In an amended filing ahead of IPO expected next month, microblogging service also says it now has 230 million monthly active users…….


Snowden’s pal Greenwald QUITS Guardian to launch hush-hush news rival

US-based website touted as ‘general media outlet’……


Skimbox launches, taps analytics for inbox triage

Can neural networks tame the email beast?……


Twitter picks NYSE over Nasdaq for IPO

Delivering a blow to the Nasdaq, which was accused for bungling Facebook’s IPO, Twitter takes another route for its market debut…….


How To Develop Unmaintainable Software

jones_supa writes “Greg Jorgensen specializes in debugging, fixing, maintaining, and extending legacy software systems. His typical client has a web site or internal application that works, more or less, but the original developer isn’t available. Greg lists some things you can do in your own software projects to keep him in business. In summary, the…


Telstra plans to keep hands on government BEEELIONS

Never get between rent-seeker and rent……


Cabinet to be targeted with pro-FTTP ads

Crowdfunded campaigners to reveal next phase of cunning plan soon……