http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk Performance Testing News UK Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:18:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From eWeek- Storage:Disaster recovery provider Continuity Software Aug. sixteen upgraded its RecoverGuard product to incorporate a Personal Cloud Advisor. RecoverGuard Model 5.2's Private Cloud Advisor supplies full availability and recoverability in the personal cloud, or pool of shared data storage. Non-public cloud computing is a method some companies make use of to ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/25/software-testing/continuity-disaster-recovery-software-will-get-non-public-cloud-advisor.html From eWeek:Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 likely wont benefit from Oracles patent-infringement lawsuit towards Google, which can have an effect on Android, however almost certainly not soon sufficient to affect the close to-time period smartphone wars. - Google has vowed to “strongly defend” open-source requirements and its Android ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/24/security-testing/oracle-takes-on-with-google.html From cNet:At the University of Washington MobileASL that uses motion detection to determine American Signal Language and transmit images over U.S. cell networks is being tested... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/22/testing-news/university-is-testing-sign-language-over-cellular-networks.html From Computerweekly:An open compliance programme has been launched by the Linux Foundation to help people using open source software comply with licensing. http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/21/software-testing/open-compliance-programme-for-linux.html From CNet:Among the most extremely trafficked interactive techniques in the present day are accessed via the Net: Amazon.com, Facebook, Google, Zynga simply to call a few. These apps need to work flawlessly throughout any browser or danger dropping eyeballs and audience consistency. The browser wars in spite of everything, are still ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/20/software-testing/cloud-based-testing.html From Security - eWeek:A new zero-day bug affecting Home windows 7, XP and other variations of the operating system has been reported a couple of brief days before Microsoft releases probably the most Patch Tuesday safety bulletins ever. - Microsoft is investigating a brand new report of ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/15/testing-news/windows-safety-bug-surfaces-as-patch-tuesday-looms.html From Yahoo News:EDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) – Saudi's telecoms regulator has postponed a ban on BlackBerry till Monday in order that steered options to the dominion's security issues supplied by the Canadian maker may be tested. The Communications and Data Expertise Fee stated the forty eight-hour grace period, ending on Monday ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/13/uncategorized/saudi-regulator-delays-blackberry-ban-to-testto-check.html From Yahoo News:The open-source Mozilla has been offering money bounties for safety bugs for six years now, but typically bug finders merely flip down the cash. Between 10 p.c and 15 percent of the serious safety bugs reported since Mozilla launched its bug bounty program have been supplied freed from ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/12/software-testing/extra-than-1-in-10-mozilla-bug-finders-turn-down-money-pc-world.html NTLM is a security protocol used in Microsoft Networks. It is the main approach used by Microsoft to implement single sign-on. It is also used for HTTP authentication and also in Exchange, as well as CIFS/SMB, Telnet and SIP. NTLM uses a challenge response authentication mechanism, in which users ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/25/software-testing/a-short-description-of-ntlm.html From HP:Steve Feloney is the face of HP's Performance Centre. I met Stephen a year ago as he was doing a world tour to endorse Performance Centre. Stephen is passionate about Performance Centre. He does his work well, and you can't avoid agreeing with him about Performance Centre and its ... http://www.testperformance.org/testinguk/24/non-functional-testing/the-return-of-investment-of-pc-and-how-it-compares-to-a-bus.html