Automated-software testing firm TestPlant Inc. plans to launch a new test in April that looks for problems in the new mobile-applications customers can use on their smartphones. Employees of the London-based Test Plant's development office in Boulder created the automated mobile-applications test, said Jonathan Gillaspie, the company's chief development officer. Gillaspie heads the team in Boulder. The test is named eggOn. The company bills the test as one that's easier to use than the previous eggPlant for Mobile test, which is also made by TestPlant.

Reactor Labs, a Boulder-based startup, has developed a mobile app that transforms users' social feeds and favorite news sites into a presentation that they can listen to or watch on their iPhone or Apple TV. The app, called Winston, allows users to choose the topics, such as world news, politics and sports, and pulls information and images from various news sources around the Web. It also can incorporate information from Facebook and Twitter accounts. An Android version and support for more languages are in the works.

Longmont-based software firm Kozio Inc. released the Verification and Test OS Standard and Advanced Packages for Sitara ARM AM335x Cortex A8 processors from Texas Instruments Inc. Both packages provide an out-of-the-box board-based design verification and debug solution for AM335x designs containing DDR2/DDR3, NAND flash, NOR flash, SRAM, UARTS, I2C and McSPI. The VTOS AM335x Advanced Package contains an additional generic display driver allowing the user to graphically modify a device tree and provide simple display initialization scripts to enable full functional testing of any display.

Boulder-based EVOL Foods, maker of natural and organic frozen meals and snacks, announced two new product lines as well as plans to give the Classic burrito line a makeover. The new line of Plus Burritos with Guacamole offers hot burritos with a side serving of cool guacamole. New dairy-free, gluten-free burritos are made with a whole-grain tortilla and come with chicken, "chicken plus" or shredded beef.