Analysis Remembering Isaac Asimov's Election Day Watching the elections in Egypt this week and as one of the few Americans who are planning on voting next week in our off-year election, I am reminded of one of my favorite science fiction stories by the master Isaac Asimov called "Franchise. The story was written in the 1950s and takes place ironically in 2008 on election day. Computers and… David Strom View comments
News EU Advocate General: You Can't Copyright a Programming Language In an opinion which, if affirmed by judges, would have dramatic impact on the definition of software and standards - at least in Europe if not eventually worldwide - the Advocate General in a European Court of Justice case involving U.S.-based business analytics firm SAS, has argued that the language in which computer programs are written may be… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
Android Smaato Q3 Mobile Ad Metrics Mobile ad optimizing network Smaato has released its third quarter metrics and the good news for developers is that U.S. fill rates have stabilized. The problem for developers is that fill rates have stabilized at 18%, a one-point drop from the second quarter. The question that developers have to ask themselves is whether or not mobile… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Sponsors Sponsor Post: Skytap's 5 Tips For Adopting Agile IT Methodologies Editor's note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. The cloud model… RWW Sponsor View comments
News Feedly 8 Brings Tagging, Infinite Scrolling Google Reader may be one of the best things to happen to RSS/Atom feeds, but Feedly is definitely one of the best things to happen to Google Reader, and Feedly 8 makes it even better. With this release, Feedly adds tagging, "infinite" scrolling, and two new views. The biggie, at least from my viewpoint, is the tagging. Feedly has always… Joe Brockmeier View comments