Welcome: New BetaNews Launches!

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Happy New Year from BetaNews!

Happy New Year from BetaNews! 12/31/2004 02:56 PM
As balls drop, grapes are eaten and other assorted New Year's festivities begin around the world, BetaNews would like to welcome everyone to 2005, which promises to be an exciting year in technology. We ask that you keep in mind those who have lost their lives, families and loved ones as a result of the tsunami in Asia and east Africa.

BetaNews: Why MSN Needs an Image
Makeover

BetaNews: Why MSN Needs an Image
Makeover 03/17/2005 03:59 AM
BetaNews has posted a thoughtful piece on why MSN's new products and services don't get the same attention and respect as those from its competitors. Worth a read.

BetaNews: Developer: Firefox 1.1 to be
Delayed

BetaNews: Developer: Firefox 1.1 to be
Delayed 02/01/2005 09:22 PM
"Firefox lead engineer turned Google developer Ben Goodger announced on his Web log late this week that version 1.1 of Firefox will be delayed..."

Longhorn and More: BetaNews PDC 2003
Wrap-Up

Longhorn and More: BetaNews PDC 2003
Wrap-Up 10/31/2003 09:23 AM

Happy Holidays 2004 from BetaNews

Happy Holidays 2004 from BetaNews 12/25/2004 05:04 PM
As 2004 winds down, we at BetaNews would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for all of the support we have received from our software authors, downloaders and devoted readers. 2004 has brought incredible changes to BetaNews inside and out, none of which could have been accomplished without you.

BetaNews | Microsoft Acquires Groove
Networks

BetaNews | Microsoft Acquires Groove
Networks 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
Microsoft announced early Thursday that it will acquire Groove Networks and integrate Groove's Virtual Office collaboration software into the Office System lineup .. bought grove

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BetaNews | Inside Information,
Unreleased Products

BetaNews | Inside Information,
Unreleased Products 06/07/2004 02:58 AM
BetaNews Inside Information, Unreleased Products .. re-launched .. Beta News .. BetaNews, .. BetaNews .. Source .. Beta

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BetaNews | Microsoft: SP2 Will Not
Install on Pirated Copies of XP

BetaNews | Microsoft: SP2 Will Not
Install on Pirated Copies of XP 05/12/2004 05:26 AM
Microsoft: SP2 Will Not Install on Pirated Copies of XP .. Interview mit BetaNews

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BetaNews | Windows Source Leak Traces
Back to Mainsoft

BetaNews | Windows Source Leak Traces
Back to Mainsoft 02/14/2004 07:22 AM
The source of the leak has been found .. partner de su programa Wise .. .. BetaNews

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TIM Launches 3G

TIM Launches 3G 05/25/2004 11:36 PM
Unstrung.com May 26 2004 3:49AM GMT

LG launches My PC

LG launches My PC 09/16/2004 08:56 PM
The Hindu Sep 17 2004 0:13AM GMT

Proximus Launches 3G

Proximus Launches 3G 04/13/2004 08:42 AM
Unstrung.com Apr 13 2004 12:35PM GMT

WirelessUnleashed Launches

WirelessUnleashed Launches 06/04/2004 09:08 AM
Earlier this week, with a little help from my friends, I launched a WirelessUnleashed, a group weblog on unlicensed wireless issues.  Between getting this online and Supernova planning, I've been so busy that I neglected to post a pointer here!

The site focuses on the benefits of reallocating low-frequency wireless capacity from broadcasting to unlicensed applications, both here and around the world.  There is a huge amount of capacity which could be used for two-way applications like broadband to the home, but which is locked up in broadcast allocations based on 1950s technology.  Freeing it up could create massive opportunities for innovation, and could dramatically lower the costs of wireless connectivity in developing countries.

My co-conspirators are Clay Shirky, Andrew Odlyzko, and David Isenberg. It's not often you find the brainpower that these three bring to the table in one place.

ClickTheVote launches

ClickTheVote launches 12/03/2003 02:56 AM
John Parres writes:

Today marks the official launch of Click The Vote. We are a grassroots non-profit dedicated to educating and organizing new technology users to promote legalized file-sharing, defend open source computing and demand democratic spectrum allocation for emergent technologies like Ultra-Wideband and software radio. We invite everyone to join up because over the coming election year we are going to have fun asking tough questions, flash mobbing candidates, sending targeted CD-Rs, utilizing P2P tools for grassroots efforts and demanding answers to important questions that affect the lives and futures of everyday users of new technology. The USA primaries are only months away and the general election is less than a year off. Time to get busy!

Link to CNET news article, Link to Clickthevote.

Cellcom launches 3G

Cellcom launches 3G 06/06/2004 08:21 AM
Israel Business Arena Jun 6 2004 11:27AM GMT

Sputnik Launches!

Sputnik Launches! 01/07/2004 05:29 PM

I'm extremely proud to herald the launch of Sputnik's newest product set, Sputnik Central Control 2.2 and the award-winning AP 120 WiFi Access Point. These products have made it to the light of day after thousands of man-hours of testing and real-world use, bugs and bug-fixes, dozens of deployments, new feature enhancements, and hundreds of hours spent listening and working with customers and partners.

These products make it easy for Wireless ISPs, Hotspot operators, and IT Services companies to roll out managed, authenticated wireless access. At $185 per AP, the Sputnik AP 120 (bu y) is one half to one fifth the price of wireless Access Points with equivalent features. The Access Point is completely managable centrally - everything from initial provisioning to ongoing maintenance and firmware upgrades, can be done centrally. Sputnik Central Control (bu y) acts as the centralized management console, and the $895 price includes a software license to manage up to 20 Access Points. Additional licensing packs are available as well. Add it all up, and the complete Sputnik system is at least one half to one tenth the price of similar solutions. Sputnik even offers completely free licensing for community wireless groups - making it easy to start and manage a community wireless network.

Here's what some customers are saying:

Chad M. Smith of Washington Broadband, Inc: I want to thank you for your support and providing such an excellent solution. We have researched for months for a solution like yours. I have even attempted developing our own with little success. Since the database and cgi is "open" we will have no problems integrating Sputnik into our billing system. We will definitely be purchasing your products in the short term.


Craig Fine, director of sales for Softmatrix: It would have been really difficult without Sputnik because there's not really a solution that lets you manage multiple hot spots with one server.

How do they do that?

Here's the scoop: Sputnik Central Control and the AP120 were built from the ground up with the conviction that you could have commodity hardware pricing and enterprise-class management. And because Sputnik built itself up organically, without Venture Capitalist funding, we are able to offer the products at a radically lower price point than our competitors. Everyone said "It can't be done." But we put our heads together and came up with a completely different approach from everyone else in the industry - and we have happy customers who are using the system every day. Here's what the architecture looks like:

Don't just take my word for it - LinuxDevices took a thorough look at the system, and came away impressed:

The Sputnik Agent provides all of the manageability hooks that enable automatic configuration, dynamic firewalling, multiple captive portal redirects, policy routing, centralized management, and end-user tracking.

Wi-Fi Networking News, the leading trade publication covering Wi-Fi and IEEE 802.11 standards liked what they saw:

With Sputnik's server software and access points (APs) that include Sputnik edge software, operators get centralized network management functions with usage analysis, security, AP provisioning, and an end user interface.

All this adds up to secure, managed wireless networking with lower capital costs, lower operating costs and greater flexibility than any alternative. See how people are using Sputnik technology in a variety of situations, like WISPs and Hot Spot Providers.

Sputnik is talking with select VARs and System Integrators. If you're interested in reselling the Sputnik system, send an email to partners@sputnik.com, but you'd better hurry - we're getting overwhelmed with requests.

I'm incredibly honored to have worked with the talented team of industry veterans at Sputnik. Everyone has worked their butts off to create a system built around user requests - an inexpensive, centrally managed, plug-and-play Wi-Fi system that provides group policy and access control - and one that could be plugged directly into a corporate LAN - no need for special VLANs or convoluted network architecture, just a dynamic firewall at each ingress/egress point in your network, all acting in unison, as part of a "hive mind".

OurMedia.org Launches

OurMedia.org Launches 03/22/2005 04:46 PM

We tend to stay away from software and service websites, but OurMedia.org looks to have a lot of promise and we'd like to point it out. The concept is simple: upload any media, under a variety of open licenses, to be archived and stored, for free, forever. That means you could host your podcasts and images and homemade whatever on their servers, as long as you're willing for the rest of the world to see them. Definitely a project to keep an eye on. If nothing else, it's a one-stop shop to load up all these media gadgets.

Project Page [OurMedia via Tho masHawk]

ATI launches R420

ATI launches R420 05/04/2004 09:21 AM
Radeon X800 Pro, XT Platinum Edition launch this month

Airtel launches KBL

Airtel launches KBL 08/09/2004 04:21 AM
TechTree Aug 9 2004 8:39AM GMT

Revamped About.com launches

Revamped About.com launches 04/27/2004 08:50 AM
ZDNet Apr 27 2004 1:07PM GMT

HP launches H[i]Pods

HP launches H[i]Pods 08/30/2004 02:07 PM
Hewlett Packard are continuing their move into Digital Media markets with the launch of a HP branded Apple iPod. The devices come in variety of wacky colours, and are being launched with 20 gig and 40 gig hard drives inside them. The devices offer USB and Firewire connectivity, and will be sold at a comparable (read : the same) price to Apple.

Much had been speculated since HP announced its partnership with Apple, earlier this year, as to what they might do with the devices. More specifically, whether they'd make any changes or additions to the gear. The answer? Absolutely not. HP have not added WMA support to the iPods, which might have added some value to the iPods. The only addition that appears to have been made is "Printable Tattoos", allowing users to download, print, and deploy logos onto their iPods (HP claims they are easy to remove, yet at the same time are able to offer serious protection to the iPod from bumps etc).

With 8 months development time, HP have added little to Apple's product asides from an apparently poorly coded ActiveX plug-in for Windows Media Player. A very sorry story, making one wonder why people would buy the product from HP when they’d get exactly the same deal from Apple. The answer is unclear. However, HP's corporate logo of 'invent' really doesn't do this make over job justice.

View: HP iPod fact sheet | HP iPod homepage
Screenshot: Style 'blue' | Style 'flame' | Style 'poster'

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Defamer launches

Defamer launches 05/04/2004 12:32 PM
gossip for L.A., gawker style

Optimus launches 3G

Optimus launches 3G 06/03/2004 02:04 PM
Telecoms.com Jun 3 2004 5:08PM GMT

AOL launches VoIP

AOL launches VoIP 04/07/2005 10:48 PM
No price war just yet

Flickr launches!

Flickr launches! 02/11/2004 12:08 PM
huge congrats to the ludicorp crew for making a social networking app that actually has a purpose

Cosmote Launches 3G

Cosmote Launches 3G 06/02/2004 08:40 AM
Unstrung.com Jun 2 2004 12:10PM GMT

WhizSpark launches

WhizSpark launches 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Congrats to Peter Caputa IV (or was he the Vth?)

:-) Anyway - congrats anyway - WhizSpark really picks up where UpComing.org leaves off.

BTW Does anybody know anything about this site at: OpenEvents.com? The copyright is 2002. No evidence there's any sign of life there.

Here's Peter's post.....

The New WhizSpark is Launched!
Many of you have noticed that we have relaunched WhizSpark, but I am slowly talking about what we have done via my blog, rather than having one big announcement that the new WhizSpark is out. The "EXTRA! EXTRA! days of big website launch announcements, imho, is passe. Although, we want our subscriber base to take off, unlike many social networking sites, our revenue is not based on getting everyone and their mother registered (although it could help). Nevertheless, the main reason that I am pushing it out slowly is because there are so many features that we've developed and so many ways that people can derive value from them, that I could never include it in one post. Additionally, by talking about one feature at a time, it allows me to solicit advice and feedback from my extended group of blogging friends. (Plus, instead of focussing on PR, we are focussing on constantly improving our product and sales.)

Which is why I am building a entrepreneur feedback and favor exchange group.

[pc4media]

Press launches often just hot air

Press launches often just hot air 02/11/2004 11:03 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Feb 12 2004 3:18AM GMT

AMD Launches New Athlon 64

AMD Launches New Athlon 64 09/21/2004 06:41 AM
Further pitting itself against Intel's Pentium M offerings, Advanced Micro Devices this week expanded its lineup of mobile Athlon 64-bit processors. The new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ operates at 2 GHz and is meant for use in thin-and-light notebook computers. It is the highest performing processor in AMD's family of low-power Mobile AMD Athlon 64 products, which already includes 2700+ and 2800+ versions, according to the AMD Web site.

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News source: PCWorld

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Vodafone launches 3G

Vodafone launches 3G 02/12/2004 08:10 AM
Silicon Republic Feb 12 2004 10:44AM GMT

OurMedia launches

OurMedia launches 03/22/2005 03:37 PM
JD Lasica's and Marc Canter's OurMedia.org has launched, "a grassroots media organization, site and registry." Here's the one-line explanation from the home page: "Share your videos, audio files, photos, text or software - for free - with a global community of creative individuals." Looks good, especially for an alpha release. [Technorati tag: media]...

New Web Site Launches

New Web Site Launches 08/31/2004 05:36 PM

CaminoBrowser.org Launches

CaminoBrowser.org Launches 03/22/2005 03:48 PM

IBM Launches ThinkPad X41

IBM Launches ThinkPad X41 04/06/2005 11:23 PM
TechTree Apr 7 2005 3:19AM GMT

Tele2 Launches 3G

Tele2 Launches 3G 06/01/2004 03:15 PM
Unstrung.com Jun 1 2004 5:59PM GMT

MSN Launches their Web Search

MSN Launches their Web Search 02/01/2005 10:14 PM
Microsoft has announced on their Weblog (and on PR Newswire, but I like the Weblog angle better) that the new MSN search has officially launched. Entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/31/364278.aspx . New/updated...

LG launches new notebook PCs

LG launches new notebook PCs 04/16/2004 09:08 PM
The Hindu Apr 17 2004 0:53AM GMT

SCi launches bid for Eidos

SCi launches bid for Eidos 03/22/2005 05:08 PM
Offers shares as alternative to Bono's cash

Amazon's A9 Launches

Amazon's A9 Launches 04/14/2004 02:24 PM
Amazon's A9 Launches - Amazon.com's Entry into the Search Engine World launches today (in Beta). [via BoingBoing]
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