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Sears: Shop Everything from Appliances and Tools to Data Storage Pamela Rentz profiles the Sears Holdings Corp.'s newly formed business unit—Ubiquity Critical Environments. Ubiquity’s charter is to find a new—and hopefully profitable—use for the company’s bloated real estate portfolio of Sears and Kmart stores that are sitting empty or projected to close. |
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The Importance of "Occasional User" RequirementsOccasional users are likely to go back to more traditional, offline methods if the online equivalent isn’t immediately intuitive. There is little benefit for taking time to learn the system—as they’ll only be using it occasionally. This could impact the business case for moving a process to the web. | 
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Software Testers—Are You Effective Bug Advocates?Bug advocacy goes beyond bug reports and has more to do with what happens outside the realm of a defect tracking system. Anuj Magazine looks at the skills needed to be an effective bug advocate: ability to convey bad news, influential work relationships, and a positive influence on stakeholders. | 
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Book Review: Lean UX—Lean Principles to Improve User ExperienceSteve Berczuk reviews Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. Through its stories, templates, and guidelines on agile user-experience design, this book will help your team do a better job of building in the best user experience possible. | 
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Wading through the Big Data HypeIs big data really the next big thing—or is it just a way for the big IT shops to scare their enterprise customers into buying more gear and services? Beth Cohen looks at the hype about big data and examines the various issues surrounding it. | 
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Pay Attention to Software Fragmentation Everyone knows there are a number of different operating system and browser versions currently in use. Just how fragmented is the world of software and how much do you need to pay attention to older versions? |
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Google to Launch Free HTML5 Web Development ToolGoogle is preparing to launch an HTML5 development tool called Google Web Designer. The company says the new service will let creative professionals “create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications—for free.” Would you use it for web design? | 
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Develop Apps for Samsung Galaxy S4 and Win BigPamela Rentz profiles the Samsung Smart App Challenge, in which developers are encouraged to build cool apps for Samsung’s Galaxy S4 series of devices, with up to $800,000 going to the top ten winning entries. |
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