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Maintaining a fortnightly release schedule, Apple has seeded beta 4 of its iPhone OS 4 to developers. Complete changelog is missing but devs are reporting about a new option to change wallpapers. Other than that, a new configuration setting has been found for AT&T users, allowing them to tether their internet connection with other devices. [...]

 
MobileMe Mail web app has been revamped by Apple and is currently available in beta for existing MobileMe users. Users can request for an invitation and with the new beta, they’ll get access to a better layout suited to the target device, faster receiving and sending of emails, improved SSL security and better filtering of [...]

 
Following its fortnightly schedule, Apple released a new beta of its iPhone OS 4 and SDK to developers. The devs were quick enough to unravel new features and some managed to successfully uncover couple of noteworthy features. First is the screen orientation lock in iPhone and iPod touch and the other is quick access to [...]

 
Norway-based Opera has released a native version of its most used Opera Mini browser. Native version means the new Opera Mini won’t require Java, which was a prerequisite for the browser to function properly.
Opera Mini 5 is compatible with WinMo 5 and 6-based handsets and brings the same advantages of the Java version like [...]

 
Office 2010 Technical Preview was limited to bunch of people but Microsoft today has opened the gates for all who want to try the next version of its popular Office suite. At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009, Microsoft announced the beta version of Office 2010, allowing everyone to use and try the software for [...]

 
Adobe has released the beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2, which were revealed at the Adobe Max conference last month. Both the applications are available for x86 systems running Windows, Mac and Linux OSes and support multi-touch commands and gestures.
The new AIR 2 now not only allows to create feature-rich applications, [...]

 
Opera 10 has just moved to beta from alpha bringing in a lot of improvements. The UI has been given a makeover, resizeable visual tabs that shows full snapshots of the opened tabs, a up to 5×5 Speed Dial with changeable background image and Turbo.
The new Opera 10 is 40 percent faster than v9.6, [...]

 
Steve Ballmer in his keynote at the CES announced the availability of the beta version of Windows 7. While MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet subscribers are eligible to get their hands on Vista successor from today, users like you and me will be able to download the beta from January 9 i.e. Friday.
Having [...]