Mobile OS app crash comparison
This one on The Register caught my eye earlier in the year – iOS 5 ‘crashes more apps’ than Android
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Not-So-Smartphones of 2011
Bit9 – a company that specialises in application Whitelisting services – has idenitified the “Dirty Dozen” of such phones, in a snappily entitled blog, Orphan Android – The Not-So-SMartphones of 2011. Android, specifically, is in their sights.
Buzzwords Behind $100M SAP Lawsuit
Anyone who thinks the use of buzzwords is criminal should get immense satisfaction from the fact that software maker SAP is being sued by a customer for falling short on the deliverables on what can only be described as a jargon-filled contract. According to the WSJ: “SAP AG is…
Old Software Bugs Never Die
Sister publication EDN presents an engineering who-dunnit in its latest Tales from the Cube, involving two engineers who were asked to investigate why the company’s telephone switches were failing to switch activity from one machine to another. Read about their full investigation here…
Excel's Stubborn Refusal to Display Superscripts
Who wants to look at 60.45E-3 when they can see 6O.45xl0-3 instead? While it is one of the most popular tools used by engineers on the planet, Excel’s formatting capabilities can leave a lot to be desired. Jon Titus was particularly peeved over the fact…
Mathcad Offers Solution for Legacy Fortran Code
At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank looks from the more junior witches and warlocks. For those of you who don’t know, Fortran is the most widely used general…
Software Angst Has Engineers Still Reaching for Their Trusty No. 2 Pencils
In a survey last year of 2,000 techies by the software maker Maplesoft, the trusty No. 2 pencil trumped all other products as the most freqently used design and analysis tool. Given the portability of paper-and-pencil, the pervasiveness of the quick scribble on the back of an…