How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

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And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. Shows what you know.

It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud, that developers spend almost 20% of their time... waiting. Waiting for their code to compile (that is, for it to be translated from a programming language like Python or C into a binary machine language computers can execute). Waiting for test routines to finish running. Waiting for that junior developer to get back with the Diet Coke and Funyons...

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Apple Passes 45B Total Unique App Downloads At A Rate Of 800 Per Second With Over $9B Paid To Devs

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Apple took time to update investors on the status of its ecosystem on today’s call, revealing that it has crossed the 45 billion total app download mark, just over four months after it crossed the 40 billion download mark back in January. Apps are being downloaded at a rate of 800 per second, from a total pool of 850,000 iOS apps in total, with 350,000 apps designed for iPad alone.

That 350,000 is the same as the number of total iOS apps reported by Apple as of January 2011, just a year after the launch of the iPad. At the time, Apple had only 60,000 iPad apps, which means iPad-specific titles have seen a 483 percent increase in the intervening years...

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Facebook Home hits 500K downloads in nine days

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People are interested in Facebook Home. In the nine days since the app launched on Google Play, it’s amassed over 500,000 downloads, reports TechCrunch, despite only running on a handful of devices. Home, Facebook’s new OS-wide experience for Android, was first announced at the beginning of the month alongside the HTC First, but didn't make it to Play until the 12th of April. And while Facebook has grand designs for expanded compatibility in the future, so far it’s only available on the aforementioned First, HTC’s One and One X, and Samsung’s Galaxy S III and Note II.

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Mobile Video Views Up 300% In 2012, With Tablets Driving The Charge With A 360% Increase

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Adobe has released its Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012, wherein the Digital Index team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. The study compiles data from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance. 2012 saw a massive increase in mobile viewership, according to Adobe’s numbers, though desktop still dominates when it comes to online video.

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The Most Tried and Failed Small Businesses [Infographic]

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Many small businesses fail in the first few years, so people are often weary of starting one. This infographic presented by Top-Business-Degrees.net takes a look at the most tried and failed small businesses.

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Are You That Person Who Clicks On Ads?

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Admit it: you're that person. You're the one who spends over 23 hours watching online video every month. You're the one that is driving the online video market to $37 billion by 2017. You are the 83.3%.

Are you the same person who clicks on ads? The same person who is clicking the online advertising market into $100 billion territory in 2013?

Come on: is it you?

There's some evidence to suggest that the two go together. Most online video isn't the BBC soccer news stream that !%!%!% auto-plays whenever I visit a soccer news site (which, I will admit, is every 3.2 seconds - hey, someone needs to keep tabs on just how bad my Arsenal is). As a recent comScore report showcases, it's entertainment-oriented video on YouTube and Facebook, primarily, that people watch...

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Tablet Mobile Web Traffic Now Eclipses Smartphone Traffic [Charts]

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If you are surfing the Web from a mobile device these days, odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. According to a study done by Adobe, for the first time tablets have surpassed smartphones for percentage of website views.

Adobe analyzed more than 1 billion visits for more than 1,000 websites and found that 8% of traffic came from tablets. That ranks ahead of the 7% of visits that came from smartphones. Of course, that leaves 85% or so percent of Web traffic still coming from desktop PCs and laptops.

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E-Commerce in China Poised To Top $265B, Higher Than The U.S. [Infographic]

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China's economy is still on fire, with expected GDP growth of 8 percent in the first quarter of 2013. So it's no surprise that e-commerce is also soaring. According to compiled industry research from Alibaba Group, 2013 will mark the first time Chinese online spending exceeds that of the U.S.

Alibaba expects e-commerce in China to reach $265 billion this year, up from roughly $194 billion in 2012. The U.S., which generated $209 billion in e-commerce sales last year, will add a mere $21 billion this year, according to the projection.

Of course, China's 242 million online shoppers (out of an overall population of more than 1.34 billion) outnumber their U.S. counterparts by a cool 75 million. They buy lots of clothing and accessories, but relatively little in the way of household goods, digital media and electronics. Surveys show that China's online shoppers like the fact that they can save money on the Web, but still worry about product quality. product quality).

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You Are Watching More Web Video Ads Than Ever

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The fate of the TV ad may or may not be in jeopardy. But in Web videoland, ads are thriving: Distributors keep adding more of them, and they are bumping up their length, too. And the people who watch Web videos seem okay with that.

A new report from Web video ad manager Freewheel, which works with many of the biggest players in the business, lays out the story in three simple charts:

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Informative Infographic Designs For Your Awareness

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Infographics are So Creative!!! I know it takes alot of time and creativity to create a lovely infographic design but everyone love Infographics!! The presention of information in a compact and creative approach, infographics are able to quickly convey knowledge thats the reason we are engaging in sharing informative info graphics every week. Check out today’s infographics and get inspired.

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Facebook Stores 240 Billion Photos And Adds 350 Million More A Day

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Some 618 million people use Facebook every day, the company told investors today.

And that adds up to mind-boggling amount of data, especially photos.

Facebook stores more than 240 billion photos, with some 350 million new photos uploaded a day, reports Data Center Knowledge's Rich Miller.

To house those photos and all the other stuff, the company has built some of the most sophisticated data centers in the world, particularly its showpiece data center in Prineville, Ore.

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eBay And PayPal Expect To Do $20 Billion Each In 2013 Mobile Commerce

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eBay reported strong earnings today, thanks to growth in mobile adoption, as well as improved performance in the Marketplaces business. The company also released its mobile commerce numbers for the year, which blew past original estimates.

In 2013, eBay expects each to exceed a whopping $20 billion.

PayPal and eBay both expected $10 billion in sales/payments volume for the year, individually. However, eBay mobile finished the year with $13 billion in volume – more than double the prior year – and PayPal mobile handled almost $14 billion in payment volume, more than triple (250 percent exactly) the prior year.

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Report: There are now 1.6 billion 3G/4G connections in the world

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About 23 percent of world’s connections are now mobile broadband, according to new statistics compiled by Wireless Intelligence. 3G networks still predominate with WiMAX and LTE accounting for a mere 5 percent of the 1.6 billion total.

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Fox News' Facebook Page Gets More Comments Than Any Other In 2012

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Fox News' Facebook page inspired more daily comments than any other brand page on the social media site.

Track Social, an analytics firm that monitors 10,000 brands' social activity in real time, calculated the conservative news station generated the most comments per day of 2012.

Fox News pulled in an average of 7,443.5 comments a day.

The election certainly helped. As would be expected, Fox's fans spoke out en masse upon the announcement that Obama had been reelected, making more than 6,000 comments.

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40 billion apps downloaded from App Store – almost 20 billion in 2012

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Apple announced today that the App Store has had over 40 billion downloads since launching and that nearly half of those came in 2012 alone. This comes on the heals of an up and down year for Apple that is still operating in the shadows of its deceased co-founder Steve Jobs.

“It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Developers have made over seven billion dollars on the App Store, and we continue to invest in providing them with the best ecosystem so they can create the most innovative apps in the world.”

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USB 3.0 Is Going To Double Speeds

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USB data transfer is about to get a hell of a lot faster. The USB Promoter Group is rolling out SuperSpeed USB, a supplement to USB 3.0 due out later this year that should surge your speeds two-fold.

SuperSpeed USB is supposed to give you 10 Gbps USB data rate, which is the same as Thunderbolt. It's also expected to feature better data encoding for transfers, more efficiency power efficient ports, and best of all, compatibility with existing devices. Later this year when you download a movie or a CD, it could take much less time thanks to the new standard.

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Is The Internet Bad For Your Health? [Infographic]

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Some of you probably already know that leading a sedentary lifestyle where your fingers and eyes do the most of your work is not exactly the best thing for your health. But working on the Internet not only causes eye strain or bad posture, it also brings in a slew of other health hazards that is not as apparent.

This telling infographic by Insurance.com listed some other health hazards in the form of depression, cyberbullying, sleep deprivation, relationship stress and brain damage! Take a look at the some of the stats and percentages they shared and maybe re-evaluate the amount of time you spend on the Internet and in front of the computer.

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The World Is Going Mobile

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here’s no denying that more of us are using mobile devices, and that it’s changing the way we not only communicate, but live. Take a look at the latest presentation by respected venture capitalist Mary Meeker entitled Internet Trends. Here were her top 5, eye-opening stats:

Nearly half of all American kids want an iPad for Christmas

Global mobile traffic now represents roughly 13% of Internet traffic

Nearly a third of all American adults own a tablet or e-reader

There are 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, but only 1 billion smartphone users

Android is growing faster than anything

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We spent 230,060 years on social media in one month

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The United States spent 121 billion minutes on social media sites in July 2012 alone, according to Nielsen's annual Social Media report. That's 388 minutes — or 6-1/2 hours — per person (if every person in the U.S. used social media). All together, that's 230,060 years we spent staring into the glaring screen of so-called sharing, instead of going outside and playing with our friends, like we're supposed to do in July!

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Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over

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Robots are taking over factories around the world.

The International Federation of Robots tracks the growth in usage, production, and trade in robots, and the numbers have grown at a tantalizing rate. Robot sales jumped by 38 percent in 2011, and the worldwide stock of robots is estimated to be in the range of 1,153,000 - 1,400,000 units — up from a minimum stock of 1,021,000 units in 2009.

South Korea lead the way in robot density in 2011, with 347 robots per 10,000 workers in the manufacturing industry. What's more impressive is the tremendous spike in robot density; South Korea had 287 robots per 10,000 workers in 2010.

Here are the countries where robots are taking over manufacturing...

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