US wasted $1.56 trillion on poor software
Not to mention failed IT projects
Not-for-profit IT leadership group the Consortium for Information and Software Security said that poor software cost the US $1.56 trillion last year.
Software development stuck in the 1990s
Shoulder pads in every project
MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards has warned that while software "is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996".
A third of developers don’t know when to quit
Will code when they go home
More than a third of software developers can’t resist the urge to code when they go home at the end of the day, according to a report compiled by French startup CodinGame.
Cybersecurity software revenue to hit $27 billion by 2023
Humanity is an insecure species
Number crunchers at PreciseSecurity.com have been flipping their abacuses and reached the conclusion that cybersecurity software revenue is expected to reach $25.1 billion in revenue this year.
A third of developers are self taught
Most content developers live in the UK
A third of developers consider themselves self-taught according to a new report from French start-up CodinGame.
Nuvia ARM server startup hires Jon Carvill
Austin office and Jon Masters from RedHat IBM
Nuvia is the new name that can disrupt the fallen ARM server market, and just ten days after announcing the company, it made another significant announcement. Nuvia hired Jon Carvill as Vice president of Nuvia marketing and Jon Masters from RedHat IBM as Vice President of Software and opened an office in Austin (home of AMD and Samsung).
Apple finally realises its software is pure comedy
Someone finally read Fudzilla
For a while now we have been penning stories about how buggy Apple's software is getting, but now it seems someone at the Jobs' Mob Frying Saucer has got the message.
3D Subscription software driving move to open source
Could this lead to Linux on the desktop?
3D software makers' move to subscription models is pushing people to use open-source software because users are fed up with the price and neurotic terms and conditions.
I don’t code any more
Torvalds’ self-realisation
The IT industry’s Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds, says he no longer considers himself a programmer these days.
Why Apple software is so buggy
Former software engineer explains what is going wrong
David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple's bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, has been explaining to Apple fanboys why software standards have shot down the loo.