testing in comment and analysis
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's lesson in politics and geography, Micromuse looks to wireless, and Oracle Japan thinks for itself
Comment Instead it simulates user activity by making its own connections and testing out parts of the service on offer. The Greeks were upset that tourists might suddenly find themselves in the unauthorised Turkish zone, get themselves into trouble and... [11 Jun 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Carly, Cary and getting ebusiness right
Comment The principle factor differentiating the players, says Gomez, is the level of customer service. Both Egg and smile have relaunched their websites to improve usability. In comparison, the bricks and mortar services have been unable to maintain a... [08 Jun 2001]
Diary of an ADSL disaster
Comment After testing the service on his laptop he disappears. One small company charts the world of woe waiting at the end of the broadband rainbow. With Labour and the Tories fighting over which party gets to champion the broadband cause you might think... [04 Jun 2001]
Ethical hacking - no reason to run scared
Comment No, not the head of Whitestar Corporation before a maiden voyage of a certain cruise ship, but Randy Sandone, CEO of an internet company which challenged hundreds of thousands of hackers to break its systems. [23 Apr 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: LinuxWorld shenanigans, Psion trouble and what value stock options
Comment Among a host of other announcements, Dell and Oracle have joined forces to create a Linux testing centre in Austin, Texas. At LinuxWorld, IBM's Sam Palmisano kicked things off announcing Big Blue has a 64-processor server capable of running... [05 Feb 2001]
E-tail's Christmas test: Who will be the stars and who will be the turkeys?
Comment The upside, according to Talwar, is that the technical error that prevents online bookings under a certain category is due to live testing of a new CRM system that will fully integrate the site with back end airline reservations. [20 Dec 2000]
Of viruses, IT and the Christmas Grinch
Comment Recipients are tempted by the message "Hi, just testing e-mail using Merry Christmas music file, not bad music. What does your office get up to in the week before Christmas? However dedicated the staff are, most likely they'll be slacking off a... [15 Dec 2000]
Model Management: The success and succession of GE's Jack Welch
Comment Testing both the relationships at the top and the group's ability to digest a huge new acquisition, the next year will therefore be a doubly challenging period. Has Jack Welch, CEO of GE and Fortune magazine's 'Manager of the Century', pulled it... [05 Dec 2000]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Sainsbury's thinks inside the box, Bertelsmann applauded, and the WAP debate continues
Comment I've tried asking the testing team at what is about to be the largest internet bank in the world. Finally, good e-delivery From: Eric Samuels It seems that Sainsbury's have come up with a good idea for once. [01 Dec 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM goes large, Napster puts its case, and why Lane left Oracle
Comment In testing, ASCI White (named after the Accelerating Strategic Computing Initiative project) achieved 12.3 trillion operations per second (teraflops) which is more than three times faster than the previous record. [28 Aug 2000]
Telecoms deregulation - only fools rush in?
Comment Like an angry child, it stamps its foot and shuts its eyes to all normal procedures of testing and double testing before implementation. Today it has proposed a regulation that will force the unbundling of the local loop by Christmas - six months... [12 Jul 2000]
The great domain name robbery
Comment But Paul Cronin, head of testing at security company CenturyCom, says this is not good enough. Last month, a large number of European companies were horrified to discover that their domain names had been hijacked, with all traffic to their sites... [28 Apr 2000]
Windows 2000 Special: Microsoft's UK MD answers the critics
Comment We've had 750,000 customers beta-testing Windows 2000 over the last 12 months and if you look at customers like Dell, Ford and General Motors they are already adopting Windows 2000. When you are developing products which work with multiple... [16 Mar 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: Net access (and coffee) to go
Comment I've been testing it around town recently (purely for the purposes of this column, you understand), enabling me to send and receive email while testing out the coffee quality all over the city. Confession time: you might picture me writing this in... [14 Dec 1999]
Transatlantic Cable: is Silicon Valley ready for Y2K?
Comment We have contracted an outside consulting firm to perform Y2K validation, including testing of all of our production systems," said Jon Phillips, MIS manager at the search engine company LookSmart, whose servers are also located in GlobalCenter. [23 Nov 1999]
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