Testing in Software is to strengthen with the computer/software industry leader IBM with the acquirement of Green Hat a leader in the service of software testing. This is great news for IBM and of course Green Hat and its employees that now will be linked to the software giant. A key strength in Green Hat is prior to deployment of software application capabilities are tested in the Cloud.
The IBM Rational General Manager said, “This acquisition extends IBM’s leadership”, Kristof Kloeckner carried on saying, “in driving business agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk”.
Could this be another exampple of Lean Management.

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The security software development company Sophos recently highlighted that 600,000 Facebook users logins are compromised daily. This information was made available in a new security announcement issued by Facebook last Thursday. Although apparently describing the usefulness of its new “Trusted Friends” password an easily over looked info-graphic attachment stated that “only 0.06 percent of 1 billion logins per day are compromised.”

This appears to be quite a small percentage, but numerically, is actually quite large. 0.06 percent of 1 billion logins equals 600,000 logins. Also consider that Facebook uses the term “logins,” not accounts, so the number could include repeated break-ins at the same account. Graham Cluley of Sophos stated in a post about Facebook on Friday, “If an unauthorized party has logged into your Facebook account, then you’re far from alone.” Cold comfort, for those who naively put too much information on their Facebook accounts.

The “Trusted Friends” restoration technique works like this; you nominate three to five “trusted friends” who can help you restore access if for some reason you are locked out of your account. For example if someone has hacked the account and changed your password, and at the same time locked you out of your email account. Since you can no longer access your email account, Facebook will send codes to your nominated friends that they can then pass on to you. Your friends will not be able to unlock your account themselves, but what’s to stop the ‘hacker’ who messed up your account from changing your ‘trusted friends’ list?

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Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango,” Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, draws you in immediately with its simple but elegant interface. It’s very easy to get into messaging, both traditional email and IM and newfangled Twitter and Facebook, and launch widgets to track the weather or see your stocks. The colorful Windows Phone UI makes iOS look a bit dowdy, almost computer like, and it really shows what a mess the Android Franken-interface is.

But in the case of Windows Phone 7.5, The OS doesn’t actually offer much, the beauty is only skin deep. The available apps are highly simplified widgets; there’s nothing of the texture, quality, sophistication, or capability of what iOS or even Android offers. Just compare Office for Windows Phone to Apple’s iWork Suit or the document suite for iphone while Office’s Word has no fonts, no styles, no tables or charts, it’s a glorified note-taking app. Office’s PowerPoint lets you edit just text, not add slides or visual elements, whereas Keynote for iOS could replace PowerPoint on your PC.

Although Microsoft has billed Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” as a major update to the Windows Phone OS released a year ago, it is not a big change. Microsoft has filled in some of the glaring gaps: Copy and paste, for example, was added in the “NoDo” update this past spring. Of the lacunas for Windows Phone OS 7.5 as Multitasking has been added, you can now thread messages in a conversation, and the OS partially supports HTML5, though it’s still far behind iOS and Android in the last regard. What’s really new in Windows Phone 7.5 are a handful of widgets, not fundamental capabilities.

And Windows Phone has no place in the enterprise. Although it works with Exchange, it supports very few Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) policies, not even the basics any corporation would require, such as on-device encryption and complex passwords. It’s essentially the same weak platform with more makeup and jewelry piled on. In fact, after updating a Windows Phone 7.0 to “Mango”, one could detect no difference.

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