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RSS pages betaYahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News The service, which entered public beta testing last night, is called Boss (Build Your Own Search Service). One idea is a visual search presentation that shows miniature versions of the web pages atop the textual results. [10 Jul 2008]
Anti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. IE 8 Beta 2 will have a Cross Site Scripting filter, preventing scripts within a link from executing on the browser. [03 Jul 2008]
Internet Explorer 8 - websites warned to prep for problems
News Although Beta 2 of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 isn't due out until some time in August, Microsoft is cautioning website owners that they need to be prepping now for possible problems the new, more standards-compliant browser may cause. [13 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]
Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta
News The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced. The creator of the open source browser said the new beta includes improvements to performance and... [11 Mar 2008]
Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 products. Developers and other users can download IE8 in beta one format from the web. [09 Mar 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News Auntie's on-demand TV service was released for public download in July in beta form. Online retailers up their game was the year many retail websites got a much needed facelift, with many retailers seeing product detail pages as the ones most in... [19 Dec 2007]
Google develops 'web 2.0' encyclopaedia
News The project is currently in beta and has been sent to a small group of testers. Google will host and provide tools to produce and edit knol web pages but will not edit or advocate any of the content. Once the knol tool goes live, contributors will... [17 Dec 2007]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of significant features Mozilla said should improve security, ease of use, rendering of web pages and location of previously visited web pages. A few months later than planned, Mozilla has released the first beta... [21 Nov 2007]
Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere
News Google is rumoured to be working on a prototype virtual world, a beta test of which may or may not be under way at Arizona State University. Another project is SceneCaster, a new technology that allows anyone to make 3D "scenes" incorporating... [09 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo This phone box can be used by avatars to make calls to real world phones and will be launched as a beta trial. The Library is working with imaging company Content Conversion Specialists and Microsoft on a mass digitisation project to bring 25... [27 Sep 2007]
Apple patches more Safari holes
News This is the second batch of updates shipped for the beta browser since Apple's heavily hyped release of its flagship browser to the Windows ecosystem. CVE-2007-2398 - In Safari Beta 3.0.1 for Windows, a timing issue allows a web page to change the... [25 Jun 2007]
Yahoo! widens its small-screen horizons
News launched its mobile display advertising platform in 19 countries in February and search ads in beta in the UK and the US in October. is partnering with MobiTV, which offers broadband television and music services on mobile devices; mobile web... [27 Mar 2007]
Adobe revisits e-books
News Adobe Systems is set to release a beta of an e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions at its Max 2006 customer conference in Las Vegas. The first release of Digital Editions will be a beta test version for Microsoft Windows, Adobe said. [24 Oct 2006]
Ask goes Mobile
News launched a beta version of sponsored search results on mobile phones in the UK and US. The service uses technology called Skweezer which squeezes web pages so they appear in a format that is easier to view on small displays and speeds up the... [12 Oct 2006]
