With the release of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft's support for Windows Phone is gradually starting to die off. We already knew that Windows Phone support for Skype was coming to an end, but now we know more. Microsoft has now announced that as well as ending support for Skype on Windows Phone in October, come 'early 2017' the apps will simply stop working. And it's all thanks to a move to the cloud. The company has already said that the future of Skype is cloud-based rather than peer-to-peer, and this is the reason Windows Phone support is coming to a… [Continue Reading]
It could be argued that with Android and Chrome OS, Google already has more than its fair share of operating systems; but there's another one in the pipeline. Very little is known about it at the moment, but Google has a new operating system project underway called Fuchsia. There's a GitHub page up and running, where you can find out about the Fuchsia kernel -- a kernel that is designed with scalability and multi-device, cross-platform compatibility in mind. Based on the LittleKernel project, Fuchsia is not only on GitHub, but also Google Source. Google is giving away very little on… [Continue Reading]
Google seems to be realizing, at long last, that very, very few people care about Google+. While there have been endless -- as yet unfounded -- rumors that the Google's social tool could be killed off, for now the company appears content simply to decouple it from other services. The latest change means that Android users looking to post reviews on Google Play no longer have to have Google+ account to do so. Cue general whooping. It comes hot on the heels of another recent change which saw the ability to +1 apps in Google Play, and it's a move… [Continue Reading]