Microsoft is suing Samsung over “breach of contract” after the Korean firm allegedly refused to make a royalty payment on patent licenses. Filed in a federal court in New York, the complaint alleges Samsung has stopped making payments for patented Microsoft technology used in its Android smartphones and tablets when Redmond announced it would buy
Facebook suffered technical issues on Friday causing its second outage in two months and affecting users worldwide. The major service disruption meant users were greeted with an error message stating little more than “sorry, something went wrong”, when the social media giant, which serves over 1.3 billion users across the globe, became unexpectedly inaccessible for
If you’ve ever wanted to manipulate the capitalization of your PHP strings, then this lesson will be quite helpful to you. PHP has three primary capitalization related functions: strtoupper, strtolower and ucwords. The function names are pretty self-explanatory, but why they are useful in programming might be new to you. Converting a String to Upper
This unhelpful message appeared on my computer today when moving some files. I run Active Directory and Roaming Profiles so my first thought was if I’d set a user disk quota, however this wasn’t the case. A quick search pointed me in the direction of: Control Panel, Sync Center, Offline Files, Manage Offline Files (left
By default the Raspberry Pi is set up to obtain an IP address from your wired or wireless network automatically. This method of obtaining an IP address is called referred to a dynamic IP or DHCP. The IP address for your Raspberry Pi is much like a house address. Imagine that a postman needs to
Apple has rolled out another update for its iOS software to counter a security flaw that had been uncovered putting owners of its devices at risk. This iOS 6.1.3 update, available from Tuesday, is designed to target a security vulnerability that came to light in February that allowed users to bypass the lock screen setting
The company said that its GRID Visual Compute Appliance (VCA) system would offer the security and accessibility benefits of VDI while maintaining high-end graphics performance for small firms in the design and media spaces. The appliance combines a pair of Intel Xeon processors with eight Nvidia GRID graphics cards, each equipped with a pair of
“Use the Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export/import the permissions and replica lists make this tool
Office 2013 users can now legally transfer their license if they buy a new computer or their current one breaks down. In the face of user concerns over its previous policy, Microsoft today amended its Office 2013 license agreement. Now Office 2013 customers can move the software and license to another PC once every 90
