Symantec releases beta of Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010
Symantec has announced the launch of public beta editions of their upcoming security software products.
The company has made available beta editions of:
Norton Internet Security 2010
Norton AntiVirus 2010
The company said that these new versions focus on reputation-based malware detection technology.
Symantec claims that this technology [...]
Beta label might disappear from some Google services
Google is often blamed for misusing the concept of Beta services and products.
The company launches almost all of their products and services in beta. And a couple of them have remained beta even after several years of launch.
Google Gmail is one of the biggest victims of this [...]
Postbox releases a public beta of their email client
Postbox Inc has announced the launch of public beta edition of their email client for Mac OS X and Windows.
This application has been in private beta testing since sometime now.
This public beta is available as a free download.
The company has developed this application based on [...]
Adobe AIR 1.1 for Linux beta
Adobe has now made available the beta of Adobe Air 1.1 for Linux.
This is great news for Linux users who wanted to use the cool Adobe Air applications which are now available online.
Adobe said that this release is a nearly feature complete version of Adobe AIR 1.1 for Linux.
This is [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 5 released
As expected Mozilla has released the latest beta of their upcoming web browser Firefox 3.
The developers have now made available Firefox 3 Beta 5 which is available for all the major platforms.
However, they are still suggesting that people do not install it over their production machines.
Mozilla said in its release: These [...]
Yahoo Messenger beta for Mac now has voice capabilities
Internet media giant Yahoo has released a new beta edition of their Yahoo Messenger application for Apple Mac platform.
This new beta release features support for voice. It would now allow Yahoo Messenger users on Mac to make free PC-to-PC calls.
The company said that the edition also allows [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 Beta released
The developers behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution have now made available the first beta of the Ubuntu 8.04 release.
The final edition is expected to be shipped sometime next month as part of their half yearly schedule.
Ubuntu has become the poster boy of the Linux world promoting this open source operating system [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 4 now released
The developers at the Mozilla Foundation have now made available the Firefox 3 Beta 4.
The is the latest public developer preview release of their upcoming web browser product which competes with Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser.
Mozilla said in its release statement: These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and [...]
Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta is out
Microsoft has now made available the beta version of their Silverlight 2 application. The company has also just released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 web browser.
These two applications have been released at the ongoing Mix08 conference in Las Vegas.
Microsoft said that the version 2 of their Silverlight technology [...]
Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta coming up next
Microsoft’s Adobe Flash killer Silverlight is being developed at a rapid pace. The company is almost done with the beta of the second version of this browser add-on.
The company said in a statement that the second version focuses on emphasized RIA (rich Internet application) development capabilities.
Sources say that the [...]
