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- Qik out of private beta
- Over the weekend, Qik came out of private beta. Jennifer Leggio has all the technical details, along with some insights in Robert Scoble's outburst about how kyte.tv would kill off Qik and Flixwagon. One claim the company makes over at VentureBeat is that they have gotten latency...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Business Model, Beta, Qik, Jennifer Leggio, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- MobileTechRoundup show #140, iPhone apps, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta, and netbooks
- We really tried to get away from talking just about the iPhone in MobileTechRoundup show #140, but when it is the hottest news in the mobile space it is tough. We did talk about some applications, iPhone 3G battery life, and a utility we would like to see on the...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Apple iPhone, Opera Software, Beta, Podcasts, Keyboards, Internet, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soonMedia Center may be best MS appMedia Center is by far the app I use most on my PC. When you're in MC, you don't even realize you're using a computer. Yes, there are some missing features, but it a joy to...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), TVs, Digital media, TV Pack, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Center TV Pack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon
- Microsoft is done testing "Fiji," its update to Windows Media Center and is preparing to release the product -- officially known as "Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 -- via PC makers. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Windows Media, Media Center PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Media Center, TV, Beta, Tester, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows, Digital Media, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Opera Mobile 9.5 beta now available for WM touch screen devices
- I reviewed Opera Mobile 9.5 earlier this year and then there was the news that the public beta was coming on 15 July. We heard that it slipped earlier this week, but it only slipped a couple days and we just received the press release that Opera Mobile 9.5 beta...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Opera Software, Beta, Opera Mobile 9.5, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Evernote for Mac (dmg)
- Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. Version 1.1.1 beta includes general improvements and bug fixes. Version 1.1.1 beta includes general improvements and bug fixes.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Improvement, Beta, EverNote
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2Microsoft Press ReleaseOnly the other week Ed ran a story about how shoddy some people are running stories based on software companies press releases/marketing documents. Oh and that companies selling security software try and scare the market about the need for...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE8 security, beta, Microsoft Corp., Beta 2, notch, security, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
- Sometime in August, Microsoft plans to release Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. Yesterday, I spoke with Austin Wilson, Director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, about some of the security-related changes due in this milestone, and got a preview of the changes announced today. Here are some details...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Site, Web Browser, IE8, Microsoft Windows, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Phishing, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Snort Security Platform (Snort SP) 3.0 beta released
- Congrats to Martin Roesch and crew for delivering the next in a long line of well respected open source security products. From Snort's site: Snort Security Platform SnortSP 3.0 Beta We're pleased to introduce our first beta release built on the new Snort 3.0 architecture. The Snort 3.0...
- Tags: Snort, Beta, SnortSP, Snort 3.0 Architecture, Databases, Networking, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Google using invalid security certificate
- Google using invalid security certificateNot particularly strangegmail.com is an alias for mail.google.comSo when the certificate is for mail.google.com, you should use that address instead.RE: Google using invalid security certificateit's actually true for IMAP clients trying to access Google Mail. I get the same notifictaion.give Google a break...isn't GMail still "beta"I...
- Tags: gmail.com, Google Inc., invalid security certificate, security certificate, beta, security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Google reports cause of App Engine failure
- Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...
- Tags: beta, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Apple: 35 percent of Fortune 500 in iPhone beta
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs went a little enterprise in his Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC keynote and put some numbers behind iPhone's traction. As most of the world has known, the iPhone 2.0 software as three parts: Enterprise support, the software development kit SDK and new features. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Beta, Ed, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Released
- Microsoft quietly released the bits for beta 2 of Silverlight 2 on Friday last week. This is the version that will power the Olympics and has all of the features announced at MIX earlier this year. There seems to be a bit of a performance boost over other Silverlight applications....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Beta, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Get your Firefox 3 RC 2 downloads now
- Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download, but read the release notes first so you can familiarize yourself with the known issues. Some advice from that issues page: Don't install Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 in the same directory. The...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
- At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Beta, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Adobe rolls out Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Soundbooth betas
- Adobe has posted the betas of its Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth applications on Adobe Labs. On Tuesday, the company all resources announced the public beta of the trio statement. Once downloaded and launched, the betas will be active for 48 hours. Only Creative Suite 3 customers will...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Dreamweaver, Beta, Soundbooth, Fireworks Beta, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Adobe Dreamweaver (cfm)
- Note:The Download Now link will take you to Adobe Labs, where you must register with a valid e-mail account to download the CS4 betas.Adobe Dreamweaver software is designed for Web designers, coders, and application developers of all levels. Enhanced coding functions let users navigate through complex site pages at design...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Dreamweaver, Beta
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
- Adobe Fireworks (cfm)
- Note:The Download Now link will take you to Adobe Labs, where you must register with a valid e-mail account to download the CS4 betas.Try Adobe Fireworks to rapidly prototype Web sites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Create, edit, and optimize Web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Beta, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-05-27
- Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
- Once strictly the domain of software developers and QA engineers, personal and small-business virtualization products are now becoming an attractive solution for entry-level systems consolidation and foreign OS compatibility applications. These solutions run on host operating systems which do not require the overhead or usual high entry cost of professional...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Version, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Beta, Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 xVM VirtualBox, Linux Setup, VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 VMWare Server 2.0, VMWare 2.0, Linux, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Mac Beta sports new Aqua look
- The OpenOffice.org productivity suite will ditch the need for Mac users to run the X11 windowing system with Version 3.0. The update, now with a Beta Version in release, will offer limited VBA support, unlike Microsoft's Mac Office suite. The compatibility picture is...
- Tags: Beta, OpenOffice.org, Compatibility Picture, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
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