The tech business model used to be to provide comprehensive products with more features than your average consumer would use. But bigger is no longer better—with more individual and small-business clients, many just want basics. Is scaling back and offering service flexibility the new philosophy?

On the news that Google Reader, the aggregator of choice for many people's RSS feeds, was retiring, one coder took matters into his own hands and created a veritable clone. He kept the UI basic, posted his code publicly, and invited anyone who'd like to run it to do so—in true open-source fashion.

Responsive design may be all the rage in the mobile world at the moment, but big companies that ignore native apps in favor of this new technology will find their brands (and their bottom lines) suffering. uTest's Kate Slattery explains how it all comes down to the UX and the quality of your work.