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1999-2009: The tech decade in perspective
Articles The second significant event took place in September 1999 when a search engine called Google, which had just secured $25m (£15.6m) in venture capital, officially went live after months of beta testing.
[December 30, 2009, 10:38]
BunnyFarts - fun for kids of all ages
Downloads Sure, each of us has a different sense of humor but something interesting during our Beta Testing Phase got our attention and that was that 100% of our Testers either laughed out loud, smiled, giggled or chuckled when they tapped the bunny or...
[December 20, 2009, 18:06]
Baby Soother
Downloads This will work anywhere.I would like to especially thank my 2 month old (Zane) for beta testing this application with me. This application uses your phone to creating calming vibrations and play soothing sounds designed to relax and comfort babies...
[December 19, 2009, 19:16]
AppTank
Downloads Additionally, during beta testing we found that placing a small fee on the application lead to users giving more thought to their submissions which resulted in many higher quality submissions which we were able to focus on more thoroughly and...
[December 19, 2009, 0:11]
Ad Hoc Helper
Downloads This allows them to create a special version of their apps that can be run on your iPhone outside of the normal AppStore channels.Ad Hoc distribution is perfect for beta testing as well as for small in-house projects with an limited distribution...
[December 18, 2009, 6:43]
System Center Essentials 2010 Beta 1 review
Reviews That product is Microsoft's System Center Essentials (SCE), which is currently in beta testing for the 2010 successor to the existing 2007 version. PRO is not in the current beta of SCE 2010, but it looks like it'll be in the Release Candidate...
[December 1, 2009, 9:18]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment Beta testing cycle. I think that the claim: Empowers people who would never have attempted programming to create successful applications,” and that this, ”Enables software construction for everyone. Is true insofar as it can start non-programmers...
[November 25, 2009, 19:07]
Microsoft introduces Excel for supercomputers
News The software maker also released a beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 — the latest version of Windows Server designed to run in high-performance compute clusters. For more on this story, see Microsoft testing Excel for supercomputers on...
[November 17, 2009, 7:32]
Get Ready for Windows 7
White Papers It's important to note that there will be some low-level application exceptions, such as client security, imaging, firewall, and networking, but the beta of Windows 7 shows significant promise. Begin testing your applications and hardware for...
[November 11, 2009, 10:12]
Novell previews Pulse collaboration platform
News Pulse is still at an early stage of development, with a limited beta-test version to be made available early next year, Novell said. On Monday, Google made a developer version of the Wave software available to outside developers for "experimental...
[November 5, 2009, 14:48]
Amazon puts SQL in the cloud
News The beta of the service is available now in the US, with European release due in a few months, according to the company. At the time of writing, no information was available about any restrictions or service-level implications due to the beta...
[October 28, 2009, 16:14]
Photos: new Windows 7 notebooks review
Reviews With Windows 7, Microsoft seems to have finally put right most of what was wrong with Vista, which now seems like an extended beta program for Redmond's latest desktop OS. We look forward to testing this one.
[October 22, 2009, 15:59]
SharePoint and Office betas to arrive soon
News We're working hard on the beta," Teper told the audience. Some 5,000 users inside Microsoft have been testing the new version, and last week it was rolled out to 1,000 employees, Teper said, adding that the SharePoint team wants to monitor the...
[October 20, 2009, 8:38]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 hits MSDN
Blog Hushed mutterings around the MSDN’s many chambered portals this afternoon confirm that today is in fact the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers. Sniffing around the edge of this news this afternoon as I...
[October 19, 2009, 17:00]
Opera launches Unite peer-to-peer platform beta
News Opera on Wednesday released the first beta-test version of its Unite browser-based peer-to-peer platform. Unite is built into the beta-test version of Opera 10.10, and is accessed by a button in the lower-left corner of the browser.
[October 15, 2009, 14:59]
Mobile Media Web
Downloads After 2 years of development & building, Mobile-Media finally released it for public Beta testing, compatible and working on all major Touchscreen & Non-Touchscreen mobile devices. Instead of joining the War of Mobile App Stores and being attached...
[September 23, 2009, 7:40]
Microsoft to release free antivirus software soon
News Public beta testing of Security Essentials started in June, with Microsoft reaching its goal of 75,000 testers just one day after it issued a call for them. Microsoft plans to release the final version of its free antivirus software soon, according...
[September 22, 2009, 8:12]
Opera Mini 5 beta offers tabbed browsing
News The purpose of doing a beta is testing," the Opera Mini team said in a blog post on Wednesday. Opera has released a beta version of its latest mobile-phone web browser, Opera Mini 5. The beta, which introduces tabbed browsing, touchscreen...
[September 17, 2009, 16:49]
Windows 7 Needs Liposuction
Blog Comment I was hoping it WOULD be faster, but Windows XP Pro SP3 beat Win7 Beta. I wiped the drive and installed Win 7 Beta on the EXACT same hardware and tested the operating system with the application again.
[September 15, 2009, 13:18]
Adobe offers CinemaDNG format for raw video
News Adobe also announced beta testing of a new project, Adobe Story for writing scripts. Adobe on Thursday released a beta version of a file format called CinemaDNG that the company hopes will simplify higher-end digital video processes and improve its...
[September 11, 2009, 9:33]
