Anticipating how a new application will perform over the WAN doesn’t have to be a blind guessing game, thanks to a slew of simulation and testing tools.
A U.S. company is testing a consumer security service that is subsidized by behavioral advertising, taking a new tact compared to similar companies that ran into show-stopping privacy issues.
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, is now the largest government-approved EHR testing and certification body. The organization has aspirations beyond meaningful use, though, and hopes to drive healthcare IT vendors toward interoperability and innovation.
Microsoft is expanding the beta testing program of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite, almost doubling the number of countries and languages it's available in, the company said on Monday.
One of Europe's largest chip makers is teaming up with Taiwan's biggest chip packaging and testing company on a joint venture in China, despite strict regulations regarding chip-related investments on the part of Taiwan.
In this last installment of NetFlash before the long weekend (Network World takes off both Friday and Monday this year), we bring you this week’s Wider Net story, which takes you to the torture chamber - er, testing chamber - used for a NEBS test. Now, this ain’t no sissy interoperability test. This is where they stick a methane gas torch inside a telecom switch to see if it can contain a fire, where they blast the gear with shotguns, and where they put the equipment in an earthquake simulator to see h
Our recent testing for Session Initiation Protocol compatibility with messaging programs has, at least for the time being, found a working solution. But getting there took some help along the way.
A new round of antivirus testing found some products fail to detect malware that tries to infect a computer via a different attack vector, such as through a local network fileshare or a USB drive.
Sometimes you find some interesting tidbits on the way to somewhere else. And that's exactly what happened recently when Steve - along with Larry Hettick, his co-author of Network World's Convergence newsletter - were conducting some product testing.
Advanced Micro Devices has moved its desktop chip business operations from the U.S. to the growing market of China, adding to its research lab and testing plant there.
While MCI and Sprint split hairs over who was first with their recent 40G bit/sec trials, rival AT&T points to its testing of high-speed Internet services that took place in the summer of 2002.
The Storage Performance Council this week announced a new benchmark for testing storage systems that lets users, resellers and integrators compare the performance of competing devices.
Grids have much to offer end users, but IBM has found a way to benefit independent software vendors, too - while benefiting itself. Big Blue is using grids as a way to get hardware to ISVs for testing and development, without having to actually ship the equipment.
IBM uses own grid technology for ISV program
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SugarCRM is bridging the distance between mobile phones and PCs with a new version of its Web-based customer relationship management software now available for beta testing.
EBay-owned Skype has released into open beta testing a client for mobile phones that supports phone calls, chat and other features of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application.
Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports enterprise IT security staff as well as its core audience of penetration testers.
For years, the Wi-Fi Alliance has been poised to kick off its Voice-Enterprise certification program at any moment. Heck, I myself reported in 2008, when the alliance began its "Voice-Personal" certification testing of voice equipment for use in single access-point deployments, that "Voice-Enterprise certifications…are to follow in the middle of next year."
For the past three newsletters, we've been highlighting portions of interviews with some industry thought-leaders concerning the use of innovative technologies. We're wrapping up this series today with an extremely hands-on and practical conversation that Steve recently had with Jason Tarn from Fluke Networks concerning "Encircled Flux" technology. Steve: Jason, as I understand the issue, especially as you go to higher speeds (such as 10 Gbps), some of the readings for testing the quality of a link can get
As Microsoft smooths out the ripples after last week's big splash with Windows XP Service Pack 2, users say they found fewer problems than they expected, but some complain that late code changes and lingering compatibility issues will serve to refuel testing efforts and further delay full-scale deployments.
Aircell has turned on its cellular network, which will connect Wi-Fi access points in jets with the Internet. American Airlines will be testing the service on 15 jets soon.
It's difficult to know how well network equipment works unless you try it, but that can be expensive, hence product certification programs. Equipment from six Secure Sockets Layer remote-access vendors has passed certification testing by ICSA Labs, a respected tester of security products.
While users are testing Service Pack 2 for Windows XP to prevent compatibility problems, hackers are picking apart the security-focused software update looking for vulnerabilities, security experts said.
Intel and SGI have been testing a supercomputer that's kept cool by submerging the electronics completely in fluid, a system they say can dramatically reduce energy bills.