The classic case of the problems associated with two distinct electronic formats competing for the same purpose. It was often cited when discussing Blu-ray and HD DVD; two competing high-definition ...

Tesla’s Autopilot is the most advanced autonomous vehicle technology available in a commercial car, but all it took was a single fatal crash to put it under a constant veil of scrutiny. The technology ...

Google is probably the most prolific distributor of "beta" software in the world. Pingdom recently went through the entire stack of Google apps and found that nearly half of them (45 percent) are ...

Stocks with betas higher than 1.0 are considered more volatile than the market, while stocks with betas lower than 1.0 are ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

Software or webapps in a "beta" phase should, according to tradition, not pick up any major features, and should be going through community testing mostly to work out kinks and bugs. But one astute ...

(1) Releasing hardware or software to the marketplace that has gone through only the beta testing phase in order to get the product out more quickly. See beta test. (2) Releasing hardware or software ...

I just Googled the phrase “Smart Beta,” and the search engine reported 65.1 million hits in 0.28 seconds. So whether or not people know what this means, I presume many have one way or another come ...

Most CIOs I talk to have sworn off software testing programs, opting instead for what I call the Service Pack 1 release cycle, which means no software goes on their production systems until the first ...

I did a Google search for investing “better beta” and 4,070 results came up. Regardless of how polluted the product providers make investing, the truth lies in one definition of a market index and one ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...