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Why the Government Health Care Site Launch Was Doomed from the Start The implementation of the Affordable Care Act on October 1, 2013, prompted the launch of a government website—HealthCare.gov—to help people purchase health insurance coverage. Almost immediately after going live, the website crashed. What went wrong isn't as simple as failing to do load testing. |
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Cyber Attacks on Adobe Jeopardize Customers and US Agencies Bad news hit Adobe Systems earlier this month. Chief security officer Brad Arkin writes that the San Jose-based software company suffered some serious cyber attacks on its network, resulting in “illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.” |
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Remember: Your Goal Is to Solve Your Customers' Problems Steve Berczuk reminds us that while estimation, process, and technical skill are essential to delivering value to a customer in a cost-effective way, they are just means to your primary goal of solving problems. |
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Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt Gate Joining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy. |
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Augmented Reality Technology Begins to Eclipse Its Gimmicky Past Five years ago augmented reality wasn't on most of our minds, but lately it's in the news almost weekly. Why the sudden interest? It's likely because the technology is actually being used to improve our lives—not just clutter them. |
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Microsoft Pays Hacking Expert $100,000 for Finding Security Flaw For finding security flaws in its software, Microsoft paid a hacking expert one hundred thousand dollars this week, one of the largest bounties ever awarded by a major company for white-hat work. Bug bounty programs are becoming more and more common as tech companies realize their cost value. |
