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Is It Time to Buy a New Mobile Device? As technology continues to evolve each day, frequent announcements about new mobile devices have become the norm. All of these announcements mean the options are numerous, but it also can indicate a very open and confusing landscape—a landscape filled with questions. |
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Stop Making the Same Mistakes We keep changing the names of the development processes we use, but we do not fix the fundamental error they all suffer from: the failure to set a date and control the scope of the project—including proper estimation of testing efforts. Customers and IT must work together to truly be successful. |
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The Maker Movement Moves to the White House Is the US still a nation of “makers” instead of merely passive consumers? The White House likes to think so. Proclaiming June 18 a “National Day of Making,” the White House hosted its first Maker Faire and, in a way, authenticated the growing Maker Movement with the government’s stamp of approval. |
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Microsoft's Cortana Assistant Using Bing to Predict the World Cup We might finally have a successor to Paul the octopus. Microsoft's Cortana, which acts as a strong competitor to Apple's Siri companion, has predicted the last four World Cup games successfully. Its complex system that takes into account a handful of key metrics has the US team losing to Belgium. |
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Google Could Erase the Line between Web and Native Apps The latest update to Android is going to make web-based applications more integrated with native apps, reducing the transition time when switching from one to the other. After awhile, you might not even know whether you're thumbing through the web or accessing an app that's native to your phone. |
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Will Apple's New Language Help Build High-Quality Mobile Apps? Apple's announcement of Swift, its new programming language, has lead to speculation that some of Swift's new features will improve app quality. Many developers have high hopes that Swift's Playground feature will facilitate faster app development and lead to higher-quality apps. |
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Two Google Programming Languages You Should Learn There are several programming languages emerging as candidates to become mainstream, but there are two that share a common characteristic that may just give them a leg up on the competition. That common characteristic: being developed as a child of the Google open source projects family. |
