It can be quite an event when you suddenly notice a particular technology coming of age. And so it seems to be with the social networks. Take them or leave them, you certainly can’t deny their all pervasive presence in the modern world. From cyber-bullying to flash-mobs to global events they all are now organised, [...]

Reflective Solutions has announced a new technology partnership agreement with, Vetasi, a leading Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) consultancy. Reflective will supply Vetasi with its flagship product, StressTester, which is used by major organisations to test that their Intranet and Extranet applications and their e-commerce Web sites are fully optimised and scalable to support their business [...]

Software Quality Systems, which claims to be Europe’s largest provider of independent software testing and quality management services, has won a contract to provide cloud testing services to Vitar Software, a leading, global provider of visitor management software solutions.   Vitar has developed a SaaS-based version of its core product; with a view to reducing installation [...]

Ofqual, the UK’s examinations regulator, has blamed three IT problems with the marking system that caused thousands of students to receive incorrect GCSE and A-level marks last year. Ofqual pointed to issues with the way the examination board, the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), dealt with project management, user acceptance testing (UAT), and software training [...]

Philadelphia headquartered, AppLabs, which claims to be the world’s largest software testing and quality management company has announced the opening of a Chicago office, serving AppLabs customers in US Midwest region. According to the company the office will support professionals including field territory managers, consultants and support staff. “AppLabs is aggressively responding to the needs [...]

St. James’s Palace has chosen to use Google’s computing infrastructure to power the only official royal wedding website, which went live in March at www.officialroyalwedding2011.org. The site is hosted on Google App Engine, which lets developers run their web applications on the Google infrastructure, and according to Google is secure, easy to maintain and designed [...]

A leading IT security expert claims that, despite all the media hype, virtualisation is actually not a new technology, and dates all the way back to the 1960s. Professor John Walker, member of the Security Advisory Group of ISACA’s London Chapter and CTO of Secure-Bastion, said that, although it’s not a new technology, it has [...]

Centrix Software, a leading provider of software for unified end-user computing, has announced that it has doubled its quality assurance and development teams to support what it says is increasing demand for its Centrix WorkSpace solutions in strategic desktop transformation, cloud and virtualisation initiatives. The expansion includes the appointment of Craig Henderson as director of [...]

Reports have suggested that the London Stock Exchange’s migration to a new Linux-based trading platform has been causing it problems. The problems affect price feed data and have manifested in incorrect share pricing and also delays in critical end of day pricing. The LSE shifted to the Millennium Exchange Suse Enterprise Linux-based platform for its [...]

Software testing is a time-intensive process which is often overlooked during the planning of a software project. Yet this is a critical stage to ensuring product quality – and resolving hard-to-fix issues can easily turn an otherwise successful project into a disappointment. Here, Raspal Chima looks at a visual testing as a way of addressing [...]