Google will give companies 7 days to fix critical bugs before calling them out

Google will force a company's hand if it finds critical vulnerabilities in their systems by publishing the bugs publicly within seven days.

Twitter acquisition Crashlytics launches Android version to help developers build better apps

The company, which launched on iOS just over a year ago to "deobfuscate" application crashes, helps developers find what's happening when their mobile apps freeze or unexpectedly quit. Besides Twitter, companies like Square, Kayak, Yelp, Path, and Yammer use Crashlytics.

450M lines of code say large open source and small closed source software projects are worst quality

The good news is that software keeps getting better, with fewer than one error per thousand lines of code. The bad news is that both large open-source projects and small proprietary software projects tend to have worse quality than average.

Amazon Cloud Player now available for iPad, but Kindle is erasing your entire book library

Amazon's assault on Apple's iTunes empire continues today as the Seattle company released its Cloud Player app for iPad and iPad Mini.

Researchers dig up another iOS 6.1 lockscreen exploit

The iOS 6.1 lockscreen hack from earlier this month isn't the only security vulnerability in Apple's latest mobile OS.

Yikes! 8-character OS X bug crashes (almost) any Mac app.

Apple is known for having relatively few massive bugs in its software, but that doesn't mean bugs don't exist.

Find a computer bug, get threatened with jail, get expelled from college

One Canadian computer science student has discovered the three simple steps to ruining your life.

Windows Phone 8 rebooting issue will get fixed next month — Microsoft stays mum on details

The last thing Microsoft needed with Windows Phone 8 was a widespread software issue -- so of course that's exactly what happened.

Skype fixes bug sending IMs to random contacts

Fear no more, sexters and gossip-y texters, Skype fixed a bug in its instant messaging system today that was sending messages intended for one contact to another in your address book.

The issue seemingly started after Skype issued an update …

Google Chrome blamed for new MacBook Air crashes

A spate of crashing new MacBook Air laptops running Google’s Chrome browser had the tech conspiracists in a tizzy, what with the frenemies relationship between iPhone-maker Apple and Android-creator Google. But the root cause of the problem turns out to …

New iOS 5.1.1 update fixes problems with camera, iPad connectivity

Apple released the latest update to its mobile operating system, iOS 5.1.1, today. The update fixes a few minor issues pertaining to the camera as well as a bug in the iPad.

Specifically, the update makes the high dynamic range …

Nokia releases software fix for Lumia 900 data bug, begs for your forgiveness

Lumia 900 owners can rest easy, as Nokia has just released a software update that fixes the data connectivity bug in its new flagship handset.

A crippling data bug probably wasn’t the best news for Nokia shortly after launching the …

Apple says iOS 5 bugs are causing iPhone 4S to suck battery power like a hungry vampire

Remember those phantom battery draining issues that some iPhone 4S owners have been reporting? Apple has finally determined a cause for the problem.

The company confirmed today that the unusually short battery life is due to bugs in Apple’s iOS …