DevOps, the development approach that merges the development and operations teams to overcome deployment bottlenecks, is seeing a rapid uptick in interest and adoption as companies become comfortable with agile development and look for additional ways to improve release schedules. A recent RightScale survey found that 54 percent of companies were using DevOps, and interest in the method appears to be growing, as many say can it cut costs and improve software security
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Android is the most widely used mobile operating system, giving developers looking to reach a large audience a strong incentive to release apps for the Google Play Store. Despite the operating system's popularity, however, many game developers remain ambivalent about Android, according to recent reports
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The assistance of software has made it easier for baseball enthusiasts to track events in one of the most statistically rich sports. But sometimes something so unusual happens in a game that existing algorithms are thrown for a loop. A recent stolen base escapade by Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jean Segura made baseball history - and, in the process, fell outside the purview of anything scoring software was equipped to handle
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Reports of new software security incidents and data breaches surface constantly, but many organizations are still struggling to get a handle on application security, particularly in the development process. Given the risk of vulnerabilities, many onlookers may wonder why more is not being done to implement tools such as static analysis to increase security
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Approximately 10,000 sellers in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia had their eBay listings unexpectedly removed from the website following a software error with the company's platform. Sellers decried the loss of business created by the bug, underscoring the need for reliability and thorough source code analysis to prevent such incidents from occurring
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U.K. financial regulators are investigating an IT failure at British bank RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland) that left millions of users without access to their accounts last summer
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On Thursday, April 3, Facebook announced plans to release a new software overlay called Home for certain Android phones. Home would essentially turn these phones into Facebook phones by converting users' home screens to a version of their Facebook news feed called Cover Feed
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Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone is being billed as the product that will allow the South Korean manufacturer to leapfrog archrival Apple, in large part due to Samsung's software innovations. As the company increasingly banks on software for competitive advantage, however, development challenges could be holding it back
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Approximately 660,000 U.S. taxpayers who filed returns through preparation companies including H&R Block have had their refunds delayed due to a software error that might have been prevented with more careful source code analysis
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Formula One (F1) racer Mark Webber finished sixth in the popular sport's season opener following an error in his engine software that contributed to a poor start. McLaren Electronic Systems, the maker of the equipment, has apologized to Webber and his team, Red Bull Racing, following the incident. In a sport in which precision technology is essential to success, such errors carry high stakes
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