Not an objective national testing service, such as ETS in nearby Princeton, New Jersey.
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The Educational Testing Service (the SAT outfit) could make a nice business of this.
The pushback comes as GED Testing Service prepares to introduce a new version of the exam in January.
And plotting whether I should cash in with my own genetic testing service.
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Spiceworks of Austin, Texas, which runs a social network for information-technology professionals, plans to announce a new testing service this week.
U.S.-based Educational Testing Service is the SAT's developer, vendor and scorer.
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Competitors responded with a paper version and a cheaper base price, although GED Testing Service said its price includes services the other two test makers don't.
On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched CloudCracker, an upgrade to the Web-based penetration testing service he formerly called WPACracker, with a major upgrade to the speed and versatility of that password-breaking service.
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As one would expect, there is a lot tension in the relationship between high school communities (made up of students, teachers and administrators) and the Educational Testing Service, the Princeton, N.
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Randy Trask, president of GED Testing Service, said the new test would be worth the price, with additional features such as a detailed analysis of students' answers and security measures to prevent cheating.
"The GED was in dangerous position of no longer being a reflection of what high schools were graduating, " said Randy Trask, president and CEO of GED Testing Service, which previously was solely operated by the nonprofit American Council on Education.
Educational Testing Service, the Princeton, N.
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Samsung has been testing the service and is one of the customers at launch.
Google has been testing this service with American Airlines, Groupon, Salesforce.com, the city of Orlando, and others.
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PernixData has been testing the service with small 20-server operations as well as larger ones with more than 1, 000 servers.
Tesco is currently testing the service on its own employees before rolling it out "sometime this year", a spokesman told the BBC.
While NextDoor, backed by Benchmark Capital and Shasta Ventures, has been testing the service in the past year, it has grown to dozens of communities across the country, from Woodside, Calif.
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In early 2011, Qasar Younis started testing his customer service tool for restaurants called Talkbin.
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The company expects to begin testing the video service this year and start offering it in 2010.
ViaSat, on the other hand, can do much of its service testing on the ground, using that fairly ordinary Ford van pictured just above.
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Time Warner Cable has started testing their new cellphone service in Kansas City, MO.
The postal service does IQ testing of job applicants and picks the highest scoring candidates.
Finally, AOL Mail is testing out its Phoenix mail service, which aggregates multiple email accounts so people do not have to give up an existing account to use Phoenix.
Virgin Media and London Underground engineers continue to test and prepare the forthcoming WiFi service, including recent capacity testing at Chancery Lane underground station where hundreds of devices were connected to the station's WiFi service at exactly the same time to reproduce the service experience of a busy Tube train arriving at the station2.
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Specifically for Evernote Business, McGeachie affirmed that there's a greater need for educating users as compared to individuals just testing the waters on its free service.
"We've been testing BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 in our environment and we're pleased with the manageability, security and reliability that the solution offers, along with expanded management capabilities to other devices within our network, " said Peter E.
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Napster formally launched today that flat-rate all-you-can download Napster To Go service they've been testing for the past few months.
Swipely, which has been testing its credit card-based loyalty service in Rhode Island, is expanding into Boston, launching with 150 local merchants there.
This service, which is in testing and slated to roll out within a couple months, is designed as a kind of highly customized version of Groupon.
In this case, Atlanta-based National Service Industries sued doctors and testing services it says provided X-rays and other data lawyers used to support claims their clients had been injured by asbestos fibers.
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