The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry. About half a dozen companies in the US claim their software can accurately detect and prevent cheating in online tests. Examity, HonorLock, Proctorio, ProctorU, Respondus and others have rapidly grown since colleges and universities switched to remote classes. While there’s no official tally,…
Motivation: collaboration and ownership It’s amazing how easily we can collaborate online nowadays. We use Google Docs to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations; in Figma we work together on user interface designs; we communicate with colleagues using Slack; we track tasks in Trello; and so on. We depend on these and many other online…
Microsoft has priced the Surface Headphones 2 competitively. (Image source: Notebookcheck)The Surface Headphones 2 offers more features than its predecessor at a lower price. Since Microsoft’s latest over-ear headphones support high-resolution Bluetooth connectivity, we decided to purchase a pair to see how they fare. The Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 has been tough to get hold…
With the resurgence of the pandemic in the US, we might see an increased interest in stocks that tend to benefit from the pandemic. An obvious candidate is Inseego (INSG) but we will argue that Tufin Software Technologies (TUFN) also benefits. In our previous article, we argued that Tufin is much more “SaaS-like” than their…
The Good stink in software pipelines
The Good stink in software pipelines
Greg Law is the co-founder and CTO at Undo.io, a software failure replay platform provider. It’s the summer of 1858. London. The River Thames is overflowing with the smell of human and industrial waste. The exceptionally hot summer months have exacerbated the problem. But this did not just happen overnight. Failure to upkeep an aging…
Progress Software (PRGS) is one of those “legacy” technology companies that has largely been forgotten by the markets in the wake of much more exciting and faster-growing software companies. The company, whose flagship product is an app development (PaaS) platform that helps other companies develop applications and web interfaces, has largely been unable to grow…
Apple is responding to the COVID-19 crisis with a range of new features across its software platforms. Some are intended to directly combat the threat of the novel coronavirus, as with Apple Watch’s new handwashing feature. Other updates can be seen in a new light in the COVID-19 era. For example, your Apple Watch can…
In another up for technology shares, software companies saw their values reach new heights today. The day’s trading comes after a sell-off last week eased some of technology companies’ rebounds from their COVID-19 lows; stocks in tech companies have more than made up for their early-year declines in mid-2020, with the Nasdaq reaching 10,000 points…
Alfred Chuang Contributor As I was wrapping up a Zoom meeting with my business partners, I could hear my son joking with his classmates in his online chemistry class. I have to say this is a very strange time for me: As much as I love my family, in normal times, we never spend this…
The iffy bass performance of Sonos’s new soundbar could be fixed as early as next week, courtesy of a software update. Sonos Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by TechHive’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors If the woofers on your new Sonos Arc sound like they’re about to pop during moments…