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How the Mobile Industry Is Similiar to Yesterday's PC Era Steve Vaughn writes about the similarities between today's mobile industry and yesterday's era of personal computing. Industry professionals should view the mobile market as immature and make strategic plans according to how the PC industry changed in the 1990s. |
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Why Does IT Management Ignore Testing? Joe Townsend explores why IT upper management does not treat software testing as an equal to software development. Changing the culture and the misconceptions about software testing will be vital to the future of the field. |
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Apple Announces 45 Billion Apps Downloaded, $9 Billion to Developers Apple announced in its Q2 earnings call to investors this week that app downloads have passed the 45 billion milestone, only four months after hitting the 40 billion mark in January. To date, the company has paid out to developers more than $9 billion—half of that in the last year alone. |
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