Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week: Danang is fast becoming the IT capital of Vietnam, 101 of User Testing and iPad bug grounds American Airline flights.
Indian software testing Company is expanding
“The next explosion will come from IOT. For example, wearable devices like smartwatches communicate with smartphones and other devices. Going further, there will be several IOT devices and companies will roll out multiple applications and services.”
Indian software testing firm ZenQ has revealed it plans to expand globally. The company managing-director Murali Bollu believes that software testing will only expand further as a global industry with the explosion of the IoT meaning a whole host of new devices that will require testing. Read his other thoughts on the software testing industry. Read More here.
How Danang is becoming the “IT” city of Vietnam
“Danang is miles ahead of everyone else as a leader in being proactive in encouraging foreign investment”
The southern city of Danang which was formally a large U.S. Marine base during the war has become home to a number of tech companies and is starting to quickly expand. The local government are even turning away manufacturing companies who want to set up there to further encourage tech companies to the city. Read More here.
An introduction to User Testing
Jerry Cao introduces a article on User testing and how the different streams of user testing work. You can read part 1 of his post here. Read More here.
Apple iPad Bug delays Flights in the U.S.
“Some flights are experiencing an issue with a software application on pilot iPads….In some cases, the flight had to return to the gate to access a Wi-Fi connection to fix the issue. We are working to have them on the way to their destination as soon as possible.”
Andrea Huguely, a spokesperson for American Airlines reveals the reason why some flights were delayed this week in the United States. Apparently iPad which are used for the flight paths and manuals instead of the paper format were crashing for the pilots. This seemed to occur across a number of the American Airline flights scheduled to take off on Wednesday. American Airlines sought and received permission from the FAA to replace flight plans with iPads in 2012. Read More Here.
A bug with the Micorsoft Band
Rod Trent explores and offers a solution to the bug with the Microsoft Band that meant it paused activity for running after 20-25 minutes with no option to resume activity.
Read More Here.
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