Beta News & Articles

It's been described as the "Wild West of Cloud Computing" -- no slick "urban" services like Amazon provides, but HP is in beta with its cloud services, and the time is ripe to make your land grab with free real estate (for now) hosted by the world's second-largest PC maker, looking to move into Web services in a big way.

Amazon's new AWS Storage Gateway helps connect businesses' on-premises software appliances with cloud-based data storage to better integrate local and AWS-based apps and data with a range of backup options.

Those pesky sources are at it again, suggesting that Microsoft's next, none-more-vital, edition of Windows will be available for all to try, analyze and road-test next spring.

Hot on the heels of its new Windows Phone-powered Lumia range, Nokia's next offering could be a Windows 8-based tablet, tagged for release next summer. A surprising date, but one that might just work.

RockMelt (news, site) has started sending out beta invites to test its social-friendly browser. Is this really the shape of things to come?

As browser wars continue, Old Faithful fights back by adding some new components to its first beta version of Firefox 3.1, now available for download. The beta is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering system, and new features include Geolocation API, @font-face support, and audio and video tag support.

Obviously created with developers and designers in mind, here are some detailed descriptions of the features and why they’re awesome.

Here’s an interesting social media service that may not be (entirely) froth, though it’s still too soon to tell. SezWho is an offering that helps site owners build traffic and community participation by joining “islands of content,” like blogs and other media, with the gruntwork of crossover participants.

Perhaps most meaningfully, the offering is designed to help good content providers build integrity that then follows them across other social media. To illustrate, imagine that the eBay seller score you worked so hard to build was meaningful outside of the eBay community.

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