TMCnet News

Apkudo Announces Device Testing for Kill Switch Compliance
[September 02, 2014]

Apkudo Announces Device Testing for Kill Switch Compliance


(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BALTIMORE, MD -- (Marketwired) -- 09/02/14 -- Apkudo, the device experience assurance company, today announced the launch of 'Confirmed Kill' testing to verify and validate smartphone kill switch implementations. The test suite -- an extension of Apkudo Approved device analysis -- will ensure device kill switches meet the requirements of the law while providing the best possible user experience.



California State Senate Bill 962 -- which was signed into law on August 25 and takes effect July 1, 2015 -- mandates that device manufacturers implement extensive measures to protect consumers against the theft of mobile devices and the data they contain. These include the ability to remotely disable voice, data, and app capabilities if the device is lost or stolen, enabling of the kill switch by default, and forbidding the feature from being disabled by a hard reset.

"The bill attempts to balance the needs of the consumer with the freedom for manufacturers to comply in the way that best suits their platform," said Josh Matthews, co-founder and CEO of Apkudo. "It does, however, put the onus on these manufacturers to integrate this kill switch functionality into incredibly complex mobile operating systems. This in turn will lead to issues with both fragmented compliance and fragmented user experiences." The Confirmed Kill test suite from Apkudo provides industry-first independent validation that ensures both correctness and effectiveness of kill switch implementations, and consistency in user experience.


Confirmed Kill has been added to the market-leading Apkudo Approved device test plan, which analyzes smart devices from both a technical and user experience perspective to determine how devices will perform in the real-world. It allows device manufacturers and service providers to uncover and fix any issues before launch and ensure the best possible user experience of their devices.

About ApkudoThe mobile device quality assurance company, Apkudo is pioneering analysis technologies that deeply and holistically test pre-release mobile devices against millions of different possible use-cases and activities to discover bugs and refine the user interface and experience, taking devices from bad to good, and good to great. Apkudo works with many of the world's largest device manufacturers and over 50 U.S. carriers.

Apkudo is headquartered in Baltimore, MD. The Apkudo team includes deep research expertise with mobile operating systems including optimization, usability and performance testing, and is focused on helping the ecosystem deliver the best possible user experience to all device owners. Learn more at http://www.apkudo.com and email [email protected] for additional information.

Press Contact: Barbara Henris Quexor Group +1 703 470 9446 Email Contact Source: Apkudo

[ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]