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Android software quality: it's all in a single number

Picture this: you are responsible for ensuring that the quality of the Android device you are about to ship will hold up in front of your customers. You are responsible that it...

13 years 4 months ago

Embedded Device Security: Information Assurance and Cyber Security

Security is a heavily overloaded term, meaning different things to different people. In the embedded systems world, news on security is often about Stuxnet or similar attacks where...

13 years 4 months ago

Testing for Security

Last summer was a watershed event for security-consciousness in the embedded systems world: Stuxnet , a highly sophisticated worm exploited no fewer than 4 zero day vulnerabilities...

13 years 5 months ago

Strengthening Security for Connected Medical Devices

Three years ago an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that computer hackers could gain wireless access to implanted pacemakers and shut them off, or reprogram...

13 years 5 months ago

Highlights and hot topics from the Medical Devices Summit

There were a lot of great takeaways from the Medical Devices Summit that I attended last week in San Diego. Wind River solutions architect Pete MacKay gave an excellent...

13 years 5 months ago

Software at the Toddler Stage

Developing software is an adventure where you explore the unknown, one line of code at a time. At some point, the program reaches the stage where you can actually run it and try it...

13 years 5 months ago

They Just Upgraded our Coffee Machine

They just upgraded our coffee machine in the office. When I came out into the kitchen to get another cup, a service technician was there with a laptop perched on the sink and a USB...

13 years 6 months ago

The new front in cyber warfare: embedded systems

At the recent Take Down Conference, a scheduled talk on security vulnerabilities in SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems was cancelled due to direct requests...

13 years 6 months ago

Wind River Named "Transformational"

Voke, Inc. has just released its annual “Market Mover Array Report on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)," and we’re very pleased to see that Wind River’s Device Lifecycle...

13 years 6 months ago

In embedded systems, a lifetime is a long time

The recent news about the demise of the Mars Rover Spirit (Mike Deliman blogged about this last week) and comments about how it succeeded its mission many times over, got me...

13 years 6 months ago