Apple, after reporting stellar results, has become the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4 2011. According to Canalsys, the company shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Macs, representing 17 percent of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally in Q4. Overall, the total client PC market, including desktops, netbooks, notebooks, and [...]

Neopost, a leading mailing room equipment and logistics systems supplier, is accelerating time to market and product innovation by using Static Analysis from Coverity as its development testing solution. By finding and fixing software defects in the embedded systems integrated in its wide range of professional machines as the code is being written, Neopost says [...]

Following last issue’s feature about the skills and abilities that some people with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome can bring to software testing (link here), we recieve news from the North East-based software company Autism Works which aims to turn the positive traits of their condition into unique skills. EIghty five percent of people in the UK with [...]

A new website focused on demonstrating real-world embedded software testing activities has been launched by Vector Software. The company, a provider of dynamic software test tools for embedded systems, says  the new website aids development organisations in evaluating test tools for embedded software applications by demonstrating how to test complex code samples. www.prweb.com//releases/2011/10/prweb8888216.htm

iTrinegy has announced that it has entered a reseller partnership with Spirent Communications to offer enhanced enterprise and cloud environment testing. iTrinegy’s Enterprise grade network emulation technology has been combined with Spirent Communications’ networks and applications performance testing solution, to crteate what the companies say is a first class networked application testing offering. As a [...]

A leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees. The Interxion Testlab deployment is a collaboration between Interxion, Flexiant, [...]

Fuzzing and security testing are to become part of education of IT professionals in Germany according to Finnish security testing specialist Codenomicon. The company and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences have announced a cooperation agreement to help educate German IT professionals. Codenomicon’s Defensics software will be available for students in Security management programme in FH [...]

Seven UK business software companies have unified under a new senior management team and a single brand to form a supplier that they says is dedicated to meeting the requirements of mid-sized organisations. Calyx Software, Gyrosoft, Trinity Computer Services, and divisions of MentecPlus, Touchstone Group, Sys-Care, and Avant-Garde have been integrated through acquisition into a [...]

When the media announced back in 2008 that the centre for nuclear research CERN was conducting a series of ground-breaking experiments involving particle accelerator technology, the public accordingly went into a paranoid frenzy. While all doomsday theories have since been discredited by scientists worldwide, it recently emerged that CERN has in fact employed the services [...]

Gorilla Logic, has released FoneMonkey for Android, its latest open source automated testing tool for mobile applications. The new Android testing capabilities complement the popular FoneMonkey for iOS (iPhone and iPad) automated testing tool and extends Gorilla Logic’s comprehensive open source automated testing solution set by bringing Android developers and QA testers the same recording/playback [...]