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100,000 Hours of Testing Led Up to the Winter Olympics 2014
This year’s Olympics is being touted as the “most digitally-enabled Winter Olympics of all time” – this year’s logo (right) even includes a URL. I expect that title will be reclaimed every Olympic year...
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How to Make Smartwatches Appeal to the Masses
Wearable technology is projected to be the next big step in our march toward a more connected world. When it comes to something wearable that’s also intended to allow users to interact with the device...
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Tester Community Leading the Charge of TV Programming Appification
There’s no question that streaming services like Netflix and Hulu have disrupted the must-see TV model and have cable companies biting their nails. As cable companies fight to keep up with apps that...
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Facebook Milestone Highlights Shift In How Consumers Access Apps
Facebook recently announced that for the first time, its mobile app revenue surpassed its desktop revenue. In Q4 of 2013, 53% of the company’s revenue was generated from its mobile apps. This reflects...
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Software Bug Forces Prius Recall
Back in the heyday of muscle cars and woody wagons, a car was pure mechanics. Today, cars increasingly rely on software – and with that reliance comes the potential for a major issue caused by a...
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Understanding Accessibility Testing
As we live more of our lives online – everything from booking travel and shopping, to bill payment, watching TV shows or movies, and reading the news – a greater emphasis is put on the ability to...
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Connected Devices Expected to Grow by 6% in 2014
All signs point in the same direction: Connected devices are going to have a big year in 2014. The growth of available connected devices – from wearables to appliances to other everyday objects – was...
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eCommerce Trends to Win More Customers in 2014
The eCommerce sector is approaching $300 billion in the U.S. alone, and retailers that want to compete need to stay on top of current trends. So what are these trends for 2014? And what can you do to...
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Augmented Reality In Real Life
Augmented Reality has been a buzzword around the tech world for years now. If you haven’t had a chance to take a peek into some of the more interesting uses of it, you really should. I guarantee the...
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Back to the Future of Software Testing
If you’re familiar with the internet, you know that predictions are a very popular form of online content. You also know that – most of the time – these predictions are either: Vague and boring...
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What Can Shaq Teach Us About App Quality?
Shaquille O’Neal is known for many things. He’s one of the most dominant centers in basketball history. He’s also a spokesman, an investor, a horrible rapper and an even worse actor. But as we...
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Are You Losing 52% of Your Mobile Users?
Today’s mobile users have very high expectations for their online experience. A study by Google reports 48% of users feel if a site doesn’t work well on mobile it means the company doesn’t care, and...
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How It’s Made: The Mobile App Episode?
Space pens, beef jerky, cow bells, flip flops – until the show How It’s Made came along, the average citizen had no idea how everyday products like these were created. Now they do, and I think we can...
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Need App Advice? Ask a Marketer
App success is generally viewed as the primary goal of the development, design and QA teams, respectively. But as we’ve long argued, the success (or failure) of an application is actually a...
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What the Multi-Screen Shift Means for Media and Entertainment Companies
Many consumers aren’t watching TV on TV sets anymore – well, at least teens and young twenty-somethings aren’t. The proliferation of smartphones, tablets and computers has put TV sets to the test. Now,...
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Android-Windows “Combo-Phone” Dead
Huawei, one of the world’s largest smartphone vendors, revealed plans to launch an Android-Windows dual-OS mobile device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. But now there’s a small...
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Is the sky falling on wearable technology?
Yesterday, the Guardian reported that one-third of wearable devices are abandoned by their users. A lot of us around the tech community have been abuzz wondering if wearables are off to a false start....
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How Testers Can Help Regain the Trust of Users
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Users are becoming increasingly uneasy with the way in which apps collect, store and share their personal information. It’s a story we’ve discussed a lot here on...
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Software Update Fixes Bugs (but cannot kill spiders)
Sometimes in software testing you are finding and fixing coding errors, sometimes you are addressing requirement gaps, and sometimes you have to deal with spiders. Spiders? Exactly. And no, I don’t...
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Protecting Yourself Against the Heartbleed Bug
By now, you’ve probably heard about the massive security flaw known as the Heartbleed bug. If you haven’t, then here’s a quick summary: Heartbleed is a flaw in OpenSSL. Occasionally, one computer may...
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