Technogaze

4 Oct 2014

Windows 10, Facebook Apology, Ello and Tax Avoidance

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Mark and Michael were in the studio this week and started the show looking at Apple. There is a #shellshock patch for OS X that was released this week. Researchers looking at the randomised WiFi MAC addressing on iOS8 discovered that it only worked under very limited circumstances. Meanwhile the EU has found that Ireland’s and Apples tax arrangements are not legal.

This week saw the announcement of Windows 10, the replacement for Windows 8. More of a morph between Win7 & Win8 this is likely to be the last major release from Microsoft with the company moving to smaller and more frequent incremental updates.

Facebook apologised to the GLBTIQ community over its handling of ‘non-real’ names and has adjusted its definition to names that people use on a daily basis – as opposed to their birth names. What was Facebook’s loss when they kicked off so many users was new social network Ello’s gain. Ello has promised not to have any advertising so as to protect people’s privacy by not selling user details to advertisers.

On a lighter note, Thailand has invented a food tasting machine to check the authenticity of Thai food made overseas.