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

May 9, 2013 9:34 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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.

Dell avoids talk of flawed deal, focuses on new software foray in press talks today

April 24, 2013 5:28 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Dell execs hope to settle customer and partner anxiety with talk of their "big data" and cloud software products.

Silicon Valley rallies behind Alchemist, an incubator for B2B startups (exclusive)

January 20, 2013 9:00 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

The startups that have been selected for the first class are far from sexy -- unless a "software-defined infrastructure platform for heterogeneous computing" does it for you -- but they're all generating revenues. What they have in common is that they target their products at businesses, not consumers.

Gartner: The black cloud over IT will lift in 2013

January 3, 2013 9:30 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

With the global economic climate expected to improve, Gartner predicts that the "major retardants to IT growth will lift."

Aviary presents the new Peacock, a downloadable image editor

December 25, 2012 12:58 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Aviary, the startup that makes photo tools for developers, has just released a new version of Peacock, its formerly retired suite of tools for advanced image editing.

Over on the company blog, we read that Aviary gave the guy who …

Big Apple exec changes: iOS VP Forstall is leaving; Jony Ive and others step up

October 29, 2012 2:31 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Big changes are afoot in Apple's executive roster: The company announced today that Scott Forstall (above), the vice president in charge of iOS, and head of retail John Browett are leaving the company.

Hold the phone! Amid routine layoffs, Buddy Media is no ‘money pit’

October 25, 2012 4:34 PM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Reality check: After two acquisitions of companies in a similar space, layoffs are a matter of course.

Miss the Start menu in Windows 8? Pokki has you covered

October 16, 2012 8:11 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

SweetLabs' new Pokki app for Windows 8 offers its own version of the Start menu for users who want to check out the new the things Microsoft's latest OS offers but still want a handy menu on the desktop.

Twitter open-sources Clutch.io so developers can easily add A/B testing to iOS and Android apps

October 11, 2012 4:09 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

When Twitter bought mobile A/B testing creator Clutch.io just two months ago, the team behind Clutch promised to open source the components behind both their A/B testing tool, and the company's mobile development framework.

Meg Whitman: HP turnaround will take until 2016 (!)

October 3, 2012 10:25 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Everything you need to know about the iconic Silicon Valley company Hewlett Packard you can learn in this chart.

Open webOS hits version 1.0, gets ported to the Galaxy Nexus

September 29, 2012 11:40 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

HP's open source webOS project is on schedule, and one team has already brought it to the popular Galaxy Nexus.

WordPress releases live-blogging plugin (with a massive, deadly bug)

September 4, 2012 4:30 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Popular blogging platform Wordpress just released a new plugin to make live-blogging super simple for everyone. Unfortunately, the plugin also makes it unbelievably easy to completely and utterly destroy your entire liveblog without even knowing it.

Ed tech startup rSmart brings in $10.75M to clear running path for higher education

August 16, 2012 3:07 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Ed tech startup rSmart took $10.75 million for its software designed for to help institutions of higher education run more effectively.