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- First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta
- Since I'm testing the viability of running Ubuntu on a number of platforms, and paving the way to shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox 3.0, I might as well take a look at the viability of abandoning Microsoft Office and making the leap to OpenOffice.org. Now, I'm...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Document, Launch, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Yahoo! Go 3.0 Beta finally arrives on Windows Mobile
- I have been using the Yahoo! Go 3 beta application on my Nokia N95-3 and on the BlackBerry Pearl, but was waiting anxiously for this latest version to come to Windows Mobile so I could try it out on my Shadow. According to Dieter at WM Experts the wait is...
- Tags: Yahoo! Go, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Beta, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- VMware releases public Beta of Fusion 2.0
- VMware Fusion has released VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1. The public beta, a free download, boasts a handful of industry firsts for Mac virtualization, including true multi-display support for virtual machines and experimental DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 3D acceleration. New features in Fusion...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, VMware Fusion, VMware Inc., Beta, Virtual Machine, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- SugarCRM 5.1 sails into Beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports
- SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reportsFollowing SplendidCRMIt is a pleasure to see the leader become the follower. SplendidCRM has had fully customizable support for mobile platforms for several months. Now if Sugar would only learn to store their data in the database...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SugarCRM 5.1, mobile, SugarCRM, mobile phone, beta, SplendidCRM, monitoring, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- SugarCRM 5.1 sails into Beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports
- Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Monitoring, Cell Phone, Beta, SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5.1, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Betas of Microsoft's management tools announced
- Microsoft Management Summit opened on Tuesday. Microsoft's Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft's Server and Tools business announced that two products, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, have reached the public beta phase of product development. It appears that Microsoft's main message...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Beta, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Delivery of Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager Beta adds credibility to virtual story
- On April 16, 2006, I wrote (in another unnnamed tech pub) about Microsoft's plans for a virtual machine management platform , then code-named "Carmine," which was being designed for Microsoft's much touted virtulization hypervisor under development, then code named "Viridian." These product promises were downright ethereal at a time when market leader VMware was printing...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, prooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- New test releases out of Microsoft virtualization, mid-size Windows wares
- Microsoft is rolling out new beta builds of various virtualization, management and mid-size server wares. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: On April 29, Microsoft delivered a public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (creatively code-named "Virtual Machine Manager vNext"). The new SCVMM release will...
- Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Skype launches new Beta for feature phones, works on S60 and Windows Mobile too
- Skype announced a beta version of its client for Java-enabled mobile phones with the current list of compatible devices from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung. The intent of this new mobile client is to expand Skype to the mass market feature phone, but being the mobile geek that I am I...
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Call, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Windows, Beta, Fring, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Evernote passes 1 millionth note mark and offers Beta signups to all for one day
- Evernote passes 1 millionth note mark and offers beta signups to all for one dayEvernote passes 1 millionth note mark and offers beta signups to all for onIts been a while since I used evernote and their application was pretty good. Just signed up for the beta and can...
- Tags: EverNote, beta
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Evernote passes 1 millionth note mark and offers Beta signups to all for one day
- I am a big fan of the Evernote application and service because it lets me works across all platforms and mobile devices. I just received word that they have just passed their 1 millionth note milestone and to celebrate they are having instant beta account access (no invite needed) for...
- Tags: Beta, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Microsoft finally takes the Beta tag off its Salesforce competitor
- Microsoft finally takes the beta tag off its Salesforce competitorNon-Introductory Price?Do you know what the price will be following the introductory period?
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., beta, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Microsoft finally takes the Beta tag off its Salesforce competitor
- For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been crowing about its hosted CRM service that competes head-to-head with services from Salesforce.com. It wasn't until today, April 22, however, that Microsoft's offering in this space became generally available. Microsoft has now taken the "Early Access" label...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, CRM, Redmondians, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Tungle (exe)
- Tungle is an Outlook plug-in that saves time coordinating meetings. Use it to share availability with anyone before sending a meeting invitation. Coordinate meetings with anyone: create Tungle Spaces - temporary web sites for coordinating meetings with anyone, including people who don't have Tungle. Tungle is a lightweight plug-in that...
- Tags: Software, Beta, Plug-in, Tungle, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- iPhone Beta presages A2DP, GPS
- Greek technology site iPhone Hellas has been combing the text strings in the recent beta of Apple's iPhone 2.0 firmware. As we've seen in the past, the text strings refer to unannounced iPhone features and also mention extra steps included to prevent unlocking. Strings were found containing...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Beta, iPhone Beta, GPS, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Firefox 3 Beta 5 released. Thoughts?
- In what may be the most important "gadget" on your desktop, Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released yesterday, promising performance-boosting improved connection parallelism and a fixed memory leak that means the browser now uses less memory than other browsers, according to Mozilla developers, CyberNet, The Browser World and Slashdot. The...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Firefox 3 Beta 5: How many connections is too many?
- I woke up this morning to an auto-update message from Firefox saying that beta 5 was available. Aside from some polish and a few bug fixes, beta 5 does have one big change over the last version: by default it will now keep three times as many connections to the...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Server, Connection, Beta, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 faster on Mac OS X than Safari 3.1
- Previous benchmark tests that I'd carried out on my Mac mini had shown that Safari 3.1 was the fastest browser for the Mac OS X. Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 changes that. Using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test my testing shows that Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 holds a 7%...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS X, Beta, Firefox 3.0, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!
- I've had a little hands-on time with Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 now and initial testing shows it to be the fastest browser available. Over the past few weeks I've carried out a number of browser benchmark tests using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark and I've now added Firefox...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Firefox 3 Beta 5 released, RC1 Freezes April 8
- As it races to the goal post, Mozilla.org announced that beta 5 of Firefox 3 is available and that the code for release candidate 1 will be frozen on April 8. Beta 5 offers big improvements over previous release including enhanced stability, performance and web compatibility and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Apple Mac OS, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
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