Excerpt from http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nc20121107a1.html By KAZUAKI NAGATA, Staff writer Japantimes Online With the recent closely-timed releases of new tablet devices by Apple, Google and Amazon, the battle for control of the 7-inch tablet market has turned into an all out war. And with Japanese cellphone carriers wading into the fray by releasing tablets in the local market, [...]
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2012 Election Software Bugs Make History!
Did Cheap QA Cost Romney 2012 Election??? From www.addictinginfo.org and others below. EXCERPT ….The consultants set up the system but never performed even basic quality assurance testing on it. They never engaged in a stress test, that is, pushing the system to its limits to find out where it might break down; nor did they [...]
Reviews (2): Android Tablet Lepan 970
After Googling for MONTHS for how to solve “phone errors”, or find any “official” support – I found the best source for info has been Amazon reviews! Am writing this review after hunting down the OEM and exchanging emails below (full email history at end of this article): >; From: Shawn.liu@matsunichi.com.cn >; Date: April 24, [...]
Did Steve Jobs Nix AppleTV’s New UI 5 years ago?…
The new user interface accompanying the latest Apple TV (AAPL) set-top box was actually “tossed out 5 years ago” by Steve Jobs, claims former Apple engineer Mike Margolis. “Now there is nobody to say ‘no’ to bad design,” he laments. Ex Apple engineer disses firm’s post-Steve Jobs design sense Posted by Charles Cooper | 03/24/2012 [...]
History’s Worst Software Bugs
Simson Garfinkel 11.08.05 Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars’ gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of years past, the root of the Prius issue wasn’t a hardware problem — it was [...]
Education predicts Economic Success?
From the Detroit Free Press Guest-commentary-College-degrees-key-economic-success-Obama-s-education-plan-will-increase-access It is fitting that President Barack Obama has chosen our state to highlight new education proposals from his State of the Union speech earlier this week. From world-class research universities to nationally recognized liberal arts colleges, Michigan is home to some of America’s best higher education institutions. Unfortunately, the cost [...]
16 Critical Software Practices (Excerpt US Navy)
COMPLETE ARTICLE AT http://www.spmn.com/16CSP.html 16 Critical Software Practices CD Online 16 CRITICAL SOFTWARE PRACTICESTM for Performance-based management PURPOSE PROJECT INTEGRITY 1. ADOPT CONTINUOUS PROGRAM RISK MANAGEMENT 2. ESTIMATE COST AND SCHEDULE EMPIRICALLY 3. USE METRICS TO MANAGE 4. TRACK EARNED VALUE 5. TRACK DEFECTS AGAINST QUALITY TARGETS 6. TREAT PEOPLE AS THE MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE [...]
