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3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News Apple's 3G iPhone is poised to take the UK business world by storm, according to O2, which said corporate customers involved in beta testing are very interested in deploying iPhone 2.0. O2 UK's head of business sales, Ben Dowd, told silicon.com the... [04 Jul 2008]
Google Docs sports PDF support
News Google Docs, still in beta testing, competes with Microsoft Office but is relatively primitive when it comes to feature support. The move, announced on the Google Docs blog last week, isn't much of a surprise as close observers had already seen... [17 Jun 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released this week, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard. [09 May 2008]
Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace
News Slightly more than 70 per cent of those surveyed were still using IE6 at the end of last year, despite the imminent arrival of a beta version of IE8. Some to get Vista SP1 this week Do US businesses want Vista at last? [02 Apr 2008]
iPhone SDK downloaded by 100,000 developers
News The beta version of the SDK is free to download, but if you want to release applications based on the SDK you have to join Apple's iPhone Developer Program for $99 a year. Apple formally released the iPhone SDK last week. [13 Mar 2008]
Internet Explorer 8: Beta to be launched
News The website ActiveWin has published the contents of a beta invitation that said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which will be available for download and testing. Microsoft executives are expected to reveal further... [26 Feb 2008]
BBC iPlayer continues to soar with 17 million downloads
News The BBC's online on-demand TV service, iPlayer, continues to go from strength to strength, with 17 million programmes being downloaded or streamed in the past seven weeks.iPlayer received its full marketing launch on Christmas Day last year after... [20 Feb 2008]
Yahoo! logs on to OpenID
News The public beta testing of Yahoo! announced late last week it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal online login. OpenID was developed by the founder of LiveJournal, Brad Fitzpatrick, before he moved to Google last year. [22 Jan 2008]
Microsoft refreshes Vista SP1
News Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's SP1 release candidate available for download to the general public - after initially restricting it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week. Vista: all the coverage. [14 Jan 2008]
Microsoft rolls out XP SP3 test beta
News Last week Microsoft released an updated test version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to about 15,000 beta testers. The update, the third such service pack for the six-year-old OS, is due out in final form in the first half of next year. [20 Nov 2007]
Microsoft blogger spills beans on search tweaks
News Just to notify everyone I apologise for the information it seems they are still in beta and it was like a test rollout so I am pulling off the blog post," he said. In a blog posting last week, Windows Live programme manager Akram Hussein... [24 Sep 2007]
Vista sales failing to sparkle
News Microsoft is starting beta testing of its first service pack for Windows Vista, though that update won't be released in final form until next year. According to research company Gartner, roughly 239 million PCs were sold worldwide last year... [12 Sep 2007]
Adobe: 'We're not making Office killer'
News AIR, which is now in beta, is expected to be made available in the first quarter of next year. Last week Mike Downey, Adobe's group manager for platform evangelism, hinted the company might be about to develop such software. [21 Aug 2007]
Canonical looking to beta Microsoft
News Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical has launched a beta version of its Launchpad service, part of an effort to make open source programming methods a better match for Microsoft. Shuttleworth said in an interview after the move last week: "Microsoft has... [10 Apr 2007]
Vista security got helping hand from US gov
News But they were free to provide feedback on Vista throughout the beta process, just like any other testers, he said. A new version of the document was published last week after an error was discovered in the earlier release. [10 Jan 2007]
