The Common Application, which has been posting increasingly optimistic updates about its attempts to fix the many bugs that surfaced in its new application system this fall, went even further on ...

Just for a moment, forget all the glitches. Forget the panicked high-school students who couldn’t log in to submit their applications or who saw their essays garbled. Forget the parents who paid the ...

Alex Williams is a full-stack developer and technology writer in the United Kingdom specializing in web development and data management. Cold start issues are a common problem facing serverless ...

Washington — The Justice Department's internal watchdog found widespread problems with surveillance applications submitted by the FBI to the government's national security court, indicating issues ...

When millions of people across the globe depend on your website and mobile applications, pinpointing problems can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Not so for Care.com, which cut the ...

My favorite type of onsite meetings are those where I help to solve a major problem. A couple of days ago I was visiting a large online gaming company. Most of what they do revolves around a web-based ...

The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students ...

We previously reported on a broad range of issues that can be caused by using the System Migration function to move from a PowerPC-based Mac OS X system to an Intel-based Mac OS X system [see articles ...

The endless catalog of IT failure rests on a foundation of poor judgment, inadequate communication across business groups and information silos, and conflicting agendas. Most of my blogging discusses ...

Site lets students apply to multiple schools at once More than 500 schools accept the application Site%27s glitches prompted some schools to delay deadlines WASHINGTON — Computer problems have plagued ...