Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows — repost from VentureBeat

Microsoft today announced at its Build conference in San Francisco that it’s bringing the Bash shell to Windows.

29 years of Microsoft windows.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been that long. I remember testing out windows 1.0 back in college. It was, at the time, a poor competitor against the leading program of the day, Desqview by Quarterdeck. Desqview was a desktop shell that ran on top of DOS, but it also put the new Intel 286…

CurrentC Hacked – Business Insider

Ha! that happened faster than expected. This doesn’t mean that the CurrentC servers were compromised, all we have here is some hackers who are phishing the internet to find some sucker who is dumb enough to open that email. This is the classic first step in hacking the system. The minute you open that email,…

Number Of Users On Apple Pay – Business Insider

Well this is pretty interesting. I have looked at signing up for this service, but I only have a single credit card that is setup for ApplePay, and I haven’t seen too many terminals where I can use it. To sign up this many users in this period of time should be a good sigh…

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: 32GB version spotted in China | BGR

According to BGR, a 16gig IPhone 6 model has been seen in china. I guess some have been complaining about not having a 16gig model here in the US, but after owning a 4s with 161gig, I can tell you that it’s not a deficiency. You really do need more memory. with my Old 4s,…

Square for IOS lets you send money via Bluetooth low emissions.

I have to admit that this feature looks pretty neat from the outside. But after working with Bluetooth LE devices for most of this year, I have a lot of questions about the security of these transactions over a BLE wireless transmission. Are they using the BLE secure protocol to handle the transactions? If yes,…

MyFitnessPal updated w/ HealthKit support for tracking calories, weight, & workouts

This looks interesting. It will be interesting to see what the individual apple developer can come up with. Originally posted on 9to5Mac: MyFitnessPal, an app focused on helping you track your diet habits and caloric intake, has released a new version today with support for HealthKit and Apple’s new Health app on iOS 8. The…

Hudson’s Bay Company deploys iBeacon experience in The Bay and Lord & Taylor stores

I have been working with these iBeacons for a while now. With Lord & Taylor adopting this technology, it looks like there is a bright future for some cool app development here. Apple and Android users should like this new stuff, the Window8 mobile still can’t detect the iBeacon as of this blog post. Originally…