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Live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event

Welcome to live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview event. The event is over now but you can read about it here as it unfolded. [ See also: Apple announces copy and paste, MMS, Spotlight, more for iPhone ] 08:47am: While we're waiting, what...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Gameloft, Developer Beta, Games, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-03-17

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 3 (Windows)

Firefox 3.6 beta 2 Namoroka is the first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only....

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Namoroka, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Google Chrome dev 4.0.249.0 (Windows)

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome, Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Google Chrome dev 4.0.249.0 (Mac)

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Is imminent Chrome OS launch reckless?

First Impressions"first impressions are extremely important."Yup, Vista SP1/SP2 is a good operating system. Microsoft botched the initial release of Vista, and it gave a good operating system a permanently bad name.reckless not sure dangerous surely i may sound stupid or ill inform but ...What will be Chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome, imminent Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Snapper Screen Recorder 2.2 (Windows)

Snapper Screen Recorder lets you capture a movie of your screen while you are working and is an excellent tool for creating demonstrative animation movies. You can use this utility also to explain your friend how to do a particular task and if you are a software beta tester you...

Tags: Recorder, Movie, Animation, Microsoft Windows, Movies

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Tabs Studio 1.7.2 (Windows)

With Tabs Studio the user is able to better manage all open documents in Visual Studio, grouped and organized in an efficient way. Mostly aiming for the professional Windows application developer, it supports the latest VS versions including 2005, 2008 and the 2010 beta. This Visual Studio add-in will especially...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SV Programming, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Snapper Screen Recorder 2.2 (Mac)

Snapper Screen Recorder lets you capture a movie of your screen while you are working and is an excellent tool for creating demonstrative animation movies. You can use this utility also to explain your friend how to do a particular task and if you are a software beta tester you...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Recorder, Movies, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Chrome 4.0 gets beta release

Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16. More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday's release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Chrome, Chrome 4.0, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Chrome, browsers, Windows, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-11-03

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...

Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Sergey Brin: Chrome for Mac still unstable

You can find Chrome on...Windows you Mac fanboy.If nothing else use VMWare's Unity, I doubt Chrome will "look & feel likea Mac app." -MDeveloper release.I'm posting this with the Dev release of Google Chrome, and it's really quite good. A little unstable, but certainly not unusable!That's surprisingThe Chromium browser running...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Web browsers, Sergey Brin, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Sergey Brin: Chrome for Mac still unstable

As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. If that's true, Google's Chrome Web browser for Mac should be great. The wait will have to go on a bit longer, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made a surprise visit to the Web 2.0...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Sergey Brin, Google Chrome, Sergey, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Windows 7: An impressive upgrade

Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour

Another videoThere's another video on a blog at http://chromeos-blog.com that also shows the browser. It's 3 mins.RE: Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video TourWith Google in the fight against MS over MS tyingbundling their browser to their OS, can someone explain to me why its ok for Google to make...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web browser, operating system, Chrome, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Report: Microsoft prepping now for next beta of Security Essentials

I have been invitedThe e-mail contains a link to a survey, and they will select the beta testers from the respondents by November 1.An excerpt form the mail:''In the coming months we will be rolling out an ongoing beta program. As part of the Microsoft Security Essentials ongoing beta program,...

Tags: Servers, MSE, Security Essentials, OneCare, security, beta, server, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Sunrise 2.0.0 beta 4 (Mac)

Light & fast. The open-source browser for web developer. Auto Resizable Window TransParent Window Draw URL URL Field is Web Search field URL Copy Page Shot make HTML URL specified Downloader

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Beta, Atsushi Jike, Auto Resizable Window TransParent Window Draw URL URL Field, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-13

Palm developer program set for December lift-off

Palm said Tuesday that its webOS developer program will be open in December with "an unparalleled level of transparency" in a not-so-subtle dig at Apple. The company, which is playing catch-up with its application marketplace, opened its App Catalog beta program today statement. In August, Palm told...

Tags: Palm Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Psystar, FTC, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06