The beta testing stage can be the cornerstone to the successful development of a new site. And many startups have to conduct and implement beta testing of sites, surveys and analytics internally, which can be an daunting task when you are launching a site. Prefinery lets startups outsource t [...]
Fur enough Strategy Boutique  You might notice that there’s something subtly different about the new look of Firefox - the popular virtual memory stress test tool that’s cunningly disguised as a web browser. With an icy blast from the Arctic, the British Isles - or something t [...]
This episode of Recovery is brought to you by a city full of nerds prepping for the Seattle Zombie Walk, because your Rain City geeks are all about the BRAAAAAINS and their undead data centers, and by frequent Betanews commenter PC_Tool, who said something in a comment that got me thinking.I [...]
An attempted armed robbery at a US Apple Store has resulted in one gunshot injury and a massive police search for the bandit. The Loop, reporting on a story from NBC Washington, states that an apparent armed robbery at Apple’s Clarendon retail location has left one person injured. Police [...]
Doing what Java never did “Can you integrate this with my e-mail?” It’s one of the more dreaded questions in software development. For any programmer who has been around the block a few times, it evokes a long repressed fear of Sendmail m4 macros or Outlook COM objects. When a no [...]
Ever since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That’s because while a lot of sites claim to be real-time, FriendFeed is one of the few that actually updates continuously as data comes in. Starting today, any search you do [...]
The largest commercial communications satellite ever has been launched. The Terrestar-1 from Terrestar Networks lifted off from the ESA (Europe’s equivalent of NASA) aerospace center in French Guiana on the northern coast of South America. The satellite’s network will operate in two 10 M [...]
The porn filter that keeps you from typing Though the Chinese government has delayed plans to require the shipment of the highly-controversial Green Dam filtering app with all new PCs, several big-name PC manufacturers are shipping the thing anyway.… Though the Chinese government has delayed pl [...]
In his SyScan presentation in Singapore today, Mac security expert and Pwn2Own 2009 champ Charlie Miller discussed a vulnerability on the iPhone that allows remote code execution through SMS, which can tap into an iPhone’s GPS or microphone, to divulge the phone owner’s location or eaves [...]
Stretches to non-Dell iron plus servers Looking for leverage and a few extra euros and pounds in EMEA, Dell has rolled out a set of modular services to help companies manage their PCs and - eventually - their servers.… What is your recession sales strategy? Looking for leverage and a few ext [...]
