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SmartBear releases enhanced support for REST API security testing

SmartBear Software (www.smartbear.com), which specializes in software quality tools for teams, released a major update to its API [application programming interface] readiness platform, Ready! API, focusing on the security of APIs.

SmartBear’s Ready! API is a unified set of graphical and code-based testing tools that includes Secure Pro for dynamic API security testing, SoapUI NG Pro for functional testing, LoadUI NG Pro for load testing, ServiceV Pro for API service virtualization and TestServer for Continuous Integration environments.

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The market is bright for power amps in phones

LTE smartphones led to a bump in sales of RF power amplifiers in 2015 and the first half of 2016, according to Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com) Over the next five years, highly integrated multiband PA modules that include switch and filter content similar to the PAs used today in the flagship Apple iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 will ship in increasing numbers into lower-tier smartphones.

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AKVIS releases SmartMask 9.0

AKVIS has announced SmartMask 9.0, an upgrade of its Mac compatible selection tool. The upgrade offers a number of improvements, including the new Chroma Key and Custom Background modes, as well as the enhancement of previously existing features and other changes.

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ChronoSync 4.7 adds direct cloud connections

Econ Technologies (www.econtechnologies.com) has released ChronoSync 4.7 featuring direct cloud support.

ChronoSync is an US$49.99 sync, backup, and bootable backup app for the Mac. It can back up and sync to anything you can connect to a Mac, including external drives, thumb drives, NAS drives, remote Macs, PC’s and now cloud services. Version 4.7 includes direct cloud connections for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and SFTP file servers. Additional cloud services will be added in future releases.

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