“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

The dreaded “F” word. In tech circles, we throw around “Fragmentation” as a slight against any ecosystem where the number of choices begins to degrade the user experience. A prime example cited is the ...

External fragmentation occurs when unused gaps arise between blocks of allocated memory. This situation can happen, for example, when an application allocates three blocks in succession and then frees ...

Android “fragmentation” is back in the news this week, thanks to the Angry Birds game needing to release two different versions for Android. But I have a better one: Google itself needing to make two ...

Based on a survey of consumers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Brazil and Mexico, 33 percent of streaming users feel that ...

It's only when you get a really popular application that gets the masses excited that you get see the full, ugly effects of fragmentation on a platform. Make that particular application a game and ...