News about IT development and offshore development

Discover our four tips for ensuring you don’t fall behind when it comes to secure use of your smartphone. Smartphones are the new El Dorado for hackers. Cyber-attacks – whether on our computers or our mobile devices - have become commonplace, due to the large amounts of sensitive data that we store on them. In consequence, failing to update your OS and mobile applications represents a real danger to the security of our personal data.

The next generation of IT Security seeks to address the vulnerability of data in-use. As computing has shifted to greater and more expansive reliance on cloud services for data storage and processing, encryption software has, for the most part, been used to protect data as it is being sent to the cloud, and once it is stored there.

Leveraging data to better manage your online business has never been more important. PrestaShop has released a new free tool that centralizes all of an online sales business’ management metrics in a single dashboard.  Providing an easily-accessible source of essential data, this tool can help e-merchants quickly make better decisions. The PrestaShop open source web application, which allows you to create e-commerce sites and online stores, has just released a new tool: PrestaShop Metrics.

While remote work arrangements might seem like a project manager’s nightmare, following some key steps can make the setup simple and effective. Remote work is one of those topics that can arouse all kinds of opinions: from ardent advocates who praise its rationality, flexibility and cost-saving characteristics, to more traditionally-minded opponents that believe humans work best when they are in real-life, physical proximity to each other.

Is velocity the first indicator to look at when judging the productivity of a development team? How is the velocity of a team calculated? To begin with, let’s have a little reminder of what velocity actually is.