testing

Symbian accelerates application-signing process

News Previously, if a third party wrote an application for the Symbian platform, the application's developer would have to submit it for testing by a specified "testing house" before Symbian would give its official stamp of approval.

18 May 2004, 9:30

Free Google email service to launch 'in weeks'

News The company is wary of announcing a launch date for the service until beta testing is complete, but according to Kate Burns, managing director of the Google UK's Ad Sales business, it will be widely available to consumers in a matter of weeks...

1 April 2004, 12:45

Google flight search ready for take-off

News Google is testing a new search feature for specific flight inquiries between two points," Google said in an emailed statement. Earlier this week, Google quietly began testing a new service to allow people to post and make searchable any type of...

28 October 2005, 9:40

Motorola and Intel team up on mobile WiMax

News But now Motorola and Intel, which has been a leader in WiMax development, plan to collaborate and share testing results and design information to ensure that the new products they are developing are interoperable.

28 October 2005, 9:59

Government confirms ID partner

News The contract covers the design, feasibility testing, business case and procurement elements of the programme, which is to receive regular reviews from the Office of Government Commerce. Experience from previous projects has shown that early...

25 May 2004, 12:25

Windows can run inside Mac OS

News Around the same time, Parallels started testing for its Parallels Desktop program, which uses virtualisation technology to have Windows programs operate alongside Mac applications. Put through its pacesThe Parallels software has been in testing...

15 June 2006, 10:30

New online Windows harks back to MSN

News The main Live.com Web page is similar to the Start.com page that has been in testing since earlier this year. Internet calling service, saying PC-to-phone calling will be a paid service, even during public beta testing.

4 November 2005, 8:57

Microsoft ups the ante in desktop search

News After five months of testing the software and 1 million downloads, the company will unveil an update with several added improvements. Yahoo introduced its service earlier this year in partnership with X1 Technologies; the company is still testing...

17 May 2005, 9:47

WiMax? Why not?

News It's clear in Chicago that WiMax -- once eschewed as an undeveloped plaything for geeks, and beset by interoperability testing problems -- has once again caught the attention of major networks and equipment makers.

8 June 2005, 10:09

News.blog: MySpace readies major site redesign

News The redesign effort has been under way for more than six months, with the goals of appealing to a broader demographic and letting users interact with the site more (ie keeping them around), and has involved in-home studies for testing purposes.

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13 June 2008, 9:38

Early tests give Intel's Conroe thumbs up

News However, given the nature of the testing, it's too early to anoint chips based on Intel's new Core microarchitecture as the new kings of the motherboard, according to AMD fans and analysts. AMD supporters, however, flocked to message boards to...

15 March 2006, 10:05

News.blog: Mac running Windows XP performance tested

News On Thursday morning, we started testing. Note: this MacBook Pro was running Mac versions of all software; when testing the MacBook Pro running Windows XP, we used Windows version of the software. The News.com reader response to Apple's new Boot...

10 April 2006, 10:16

How the XP-on-Mac contest was won

News We had nine people testing it.three for the Mac Mini, three for the iMac and three for the MacBook Pro. Nederkoorn: Yeah, we declared a winner last night after testing. When Apple introduced the first Intel-based Macs, Colin Nederkoorn saw it as a...

17 March 2006, 11:52

Yahoo reaches out for friends

News Meanwhile, Google recently began testing Orkut, an online social networking site that was created by several of its engineers in their free time. Google recently started testing a personalisation service that lets people detail their personal...

8 April 2004, 7:40

Photos: Behind the scenes at Vista

News Servers go to work each day at 7pm, with the goal of having a new release ready for testing by early afternoon the next day. Microsoft's testing labs used to have a lot more people in them, according to those who oversee the efforts.

10 November 2006, 11:07