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If you're looking for the best ways to measure your development team's success, this writer says you need to look at improving predictability and optimizing productivity and he explains how to best do that.

This week we look at 4 cloud email gottchas, HTML5 as programming training tool and an open source cloud storage server.

If Microsoft and Nokia want to succeed, they need to combine a coherent message with a solid to-market strategy and great phones. So far, I'm not seeing that.

If you see IT as a parental figure inside the organization, rather than a partner, it's probably going to work against you when things go wrong and your user-children decide to rebel against their parents.

When HP announced it was releasing webOS to open source on Friday afternoon, it surely didn't kill it, but it left the operating system badly wounded with few prospects for success.

When Gartner made a prediction that by 2016 40 percent of enterprise customers would demand third-party security certification for cloud vendors, it left me wondering why the prediction was so conservative.

This week we look at 5 enterprise software development trends, how much you should trust your security vendor and if it's the end of stand-alone PCs.

While Adobe might be saying it's doing right by developers in open-sourcing Flex, it's really just spinning the fact it will no longer support it.

The Kindle Fire is nice device for $200, but just because it shares the broad tablet category with the iPad doesn't make it an iPad substitute anymore than driving a Honda Fit would be an Audi A4 substitute.

This week we look at a French company's plan to scrap email, 7 stupid security tricks you need to check and why playing games can help executives understand the value of Agile programming.

If you just throw a mobile app out there thinking it's just another channel to advertise your product, you're missing a golden opportunity to interact with your customers in a meaningful way.

As SOPA censorship looms, Reddit users plan to construct a peer-to-peer network free of government interference.

When Microsoft is making hundreds of millions of dollars on the sale of Android phones, it's clear that patents are no longer being used as they were intended -- to protect the intellectual property of individual creators.

HTML5 technologies have the potential to mute the apps versus browser argument by giving a single set of tools to build each one (and desktop software too).

Developers face a conundrum when it comes to mobile development. Do they chase the large and ever-growing Android market with its open development platform, or do they follow the money to Apple and its closed development environment?

This week we look at agile slaves, how to count mission critical apps and a Flash programmer's view of the Adobe announcement.

This week we look at the ascension of HTML5 in the wake of the Adobe Flash announcement, Google's OAuth playground and the life of a MLB CIO.

It's been a year of new developments for open source. 2011 began with open source web content management system Drupal announcing Drupal 7 and the addition of native support for RDFa, a technological building block for the semantic web. And just last week, DotNetNuke said it would use CSS and HTML5 to ensure websites adapt automatically to an array of mobile devices.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a good-will tour of Asia trying to assure his Android partners that Android will continue to stay open in spite of Google's Motorola Mobility purchase, but it sounds as empty as any politician's promises I've ever heard.

If it seemed like the Internet was slow or broken on Monday, it wasn't your imagination. It really was.