The Beta Patrol

myRosso proudly announce the Pandora Saga Open Beta is officially launche.

The closed beta testing of the next big update to City of Heroes, titled Issue 16: Power Spectrum, is due to begin soon.  Community Specialist Niviene announced on the official forums that Issue 16’s closed beta will begin shortly after the San Diego Comic-Con wraps up later this week.

From Examinner.Com

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has released the second beta version of the Maemo 5 SDK, fixing many bugs reported by developers.
Combined with the recent improvements in the Fremantle Extras
repository, this release reportedly provide a solid basis to get
software ready for the Maemo 5 final release.

From Zam.com

The free-to-play Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is set to launch right around the corner on Aug. 4 for DDO VIPs and Aug. 6 for everyone else, but until those dates arrive, Turbine has opened the Unlimited beta to all active subscribers.

While the team finishes the final test run of the F2P model, DDO
players with paid accounts in good standing can now access the Lamannia
server or post on the beta forums. These paid accounts will convert to
VIP when DDO Unlimited launches, giving subscribers access to the early
Aug. 4 launch date.

Chris “Pwyff” Tom took a tour of DDO Unlimited last month and liked what he saw. Will you be joining Pwyff in Eborron in August?

The Pirate Bay’s relatively new “IPREDator” service was one of the responses the group had to the lawsuits brought against them. Though TBP’s moniker itself is on the road to commercialization, there are still efforts being made by them to improve P2P services on the Internet. Moving towards that goal, this week they officially opened IPREDator to hundreds of thousands of beta testers.

The port of the Amiga USB stack Poseidon, whose bounty was reached in May, to AROS is almost complete and today officially entered its beta-testing phase, which will last a week. If no show-stopping bugs appear during testing, Poseidon will be officially added to AROS and its sources will be opened under the terms of the AROS Public License, similar to the Mozilla one. The AROS team, however, needs volounteers to test the current version on a wider range of PC configurations.

These APIs are currently in private beta and can be previewed at http://qikapi.pbwiki.com. If you are interested in participating in this private beta, you can request your API key by sending an email to api.qik.com. You can also subscribe to our Developer email list at api.subscribe@qik.com

From aiononline.com

Another
weekend full of action packed adventures in Atreia has passed and the
closed beta event #4 has come to an end on Monday, 20th of July (12:00
PM PT, 9:00 PM CEST, 8:00 PM BST). A big thank you again to our eager
beta testers who have been able to get a first glimpse of the Abyss,
Aion’s unique PvPvE zone where the war between Elyos, Asmodians and
Balaur takes place.

We have now established a cease fire, will
go over all the feedback we have received and start plotting the plans
for the continuation of the war in our next beta event starting on
Friday July 31st (12:00 PM PT, 9:00 PM CEST, 8:00 PM BST). The battle
in the Abyss has only just begun – stay tuned for more details as we
get closer!

Overview of upcoming Closed Beta Events:

Closed Beta Event #5 – July 31-August 3 Focus: Elyos and Asmodian levels 1-30

Closed Beta Event #6 – August 14-August 17 Focus: TBD

WD TV HD the new media player by Western Digital plays almost any Movie
format and Music format. Also view all your digital pictures, all right
off your external hard drive or thumbdrive.

Prerelease 1.02.10 (includes all previously released updates)

Fixed Items:
Greek subtitles now render properly. Previously they rendered slowly, causing them to briefly flash on the screen.
Korean subtitles now render properly. Previously they disappeared during video playback.
Playlists play in the correct order. Previously they played files in alphabetical order.

Added feature:
Metadata
support for music improved over previous releases. For example,
browsing by genre is broken down into artists, then albums, then tracks.

Known issues:
A few text strings were not translated properly over different UI languages

Prerelease 1.02.08
Enhanced cover art, album art, and thumbnail support for media files and folders
Additional subtitle languages and decoding support
Improved media playback and navigation
More audio formats for MKV container
Fixed bugs reported by the WD TV user community

Ableton Users can find this beta here:

a San Francisco startup
whose passion is to bring the worlds of video and books together on the
Internet, through multiple applications, devices and platforms.

CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers
using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to
use or modify.

Toronto, Canada (OPENPRESS) July 24, 2009 — Veil Entertainment and
Spore Productions are pleased to announce the Open Beta of Rise &
Ruin, an online, card-based, fantasy combat game ready to play through
PC web browsers.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – (Business Wire) KOWABUNGA! INC. (NYSE Amex: KOW), a leading provider of performance-based advertising and technology solutions, announced today that it will be launching a beta version of the Inuvo Platform on August 10, 2009. This initial launch is a complete re-engineering of the MyAp affiliate marketing solution that currently serves hundreds of advertising customers and thousands of publishers. The company has addressed feature/scale requests from clients and tackled a number of industry challenges that should provide differentiation in the marketplace.

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MOTODEV Enables Application Development for Future Motorola Mobile Devices

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Motorola,
Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the launch of advanced Android
development resources through MOTODEV, including a new App Accelerator
Program and MOTODEV Studio for Android Beta. MOTODEV will offer
developers early access to a new suite of Google Android developer
tools and programs, along with the opportunity to attend the next
MOTODEV Summit in San Diego, CA, on October 6, for advanced training
and information-gathering. The program is intended to accelerate the
development of applications to be used on Motorola’s mobile devices
using the Android operating system scheduled to ship later this year.

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At Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves panel at Comic-Con 09,
creative director Amy Hennig let out a little nugget of information
regarding the game’s multiplayer beta. During the question-and-answer
session she said:

PayPal tries rewiring e-commerce with new interface

PayPal, eBay’s well established but aging mechanism for
online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation of
online commerce possibilities.

At an event for press and developers on Thursday, PayPal and its
partners described several new programming interfaces that are part of
the company’s upcoming Adaptive Payments Service and showed what
developers can do with them.

For example, Microsoft will use the interface to enable payments
within its forthcoming Azure cloud-computing service. And LiveOps’
on-demand outsourcing service will use it to automatically handle
fluctuating payment amounts and changes to who’s being paid. Finally,
the interface takes PayPal beyond the browser, opening it up for use on
mobile phones, set-top boxes, and other increasingly smart devices…

FishBark is an online community for collectors… of anything!

It
will bring collectors of similar items together to inventory, show-off,
swap, and discuss the stuff they love to collect. Please submit your
email address below if you want to stay in the loop on the development
of this exciting new website. We may even contact you to help us out
with our beta testing this summer!

We plan to have a detailed announcement about Simplify Photo for the
PC, Mac, Linux and iPhone next month, but if you want an inside look
sooner, join the secret beta program. There are a few spots left, and
the qualifications are:

1) You like photos
2) You like Simplify Media
3) You can keep a secret (and are willing to keep the beta details confidential)

If you meet all 3 requirements, please send us an email at beta at
simplifymedia.com, tell us what platforms you use, include your
Simplify screen name, and we’ll send you more information. An
iPhone or iPod Touch is not required as this stage of the Beta will
focus on the desktop application and computer-to-computer photo viewing.

Adobe is pleased to announce that the next version of LiveCycle ES beta
is now available. This beta release is made available so that you can
start testing your applications on the new version as well as enable
you to explore the new features and numerous improvements we have made.
However, like any other beta, it is not recommended for production use.

IronPython
is an implementation of the Python programming language running under
.NET and Silverlight. It supports an interactive console with fully
dynamic compilation. It’s well integrated with the rest of the .NET
Framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python
programmers, while maintaining compatibility with the Python language.

Tweet, drink and be merry with WineTwits

From Marbridge Daily

Online
game developer and operator Netease (Nasdaq: NTES) announced today that
the closed beta testing of its licensed 3D MMORPG World of Warcraft
will start from July 30 and last for just one week.

Only
players with existing accounts will be allowed to participate in the
tests, and during the test period Netease will not be allowed to charge
fees or permit new registrations.

From Massively.com…

Global Agenda fans… it’s almost here. The game’s closed beta kicks off tomorrow, but a few lucky gamers in Hi-Rez’s neighborhood actually got a head start today. Hi-Rez Studios Associate Producer Michal Adam just put up a dev blog over on MMORPG.com about the beta, and how some lucky gamers got first crack at the ’spy-fi’ title.
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As the Rock Band Network get’s ready to ramp up one of the most interesting Beta’s ever, they have forseen the impact this Beta will make and they have issued a basic “etiquette” to help make this project go a little smoother.  Very Interesting….Read the following forum post pulled from their site.

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The Placespotting Beta lets you play funny geography quizzes and
create riddles for your friends…
Have a look:

MiSafe is a
fast, safe, reliable service enabling you not just to backup your
important files and documents, but to take them wherever you go. No
need to carry a USB stick or other portable media, simply use MiSafe as
your storage and your files will be available to you wherever you go.

Googles Chrome For The Mac

After launching our first beta of JIRA 4.0 at Atlassian Summit last month, have had already hundreds people download the beta and provide us tons of great feedback. This week, we released JIRA 4.0 Beta 2 which is the second major milestone release leading up to JIRA 4.0. This release contains over 250 fixes and improvements including activity streams, dashboard gadgets, advanced searching with JQL, and a sexy new header and project browser.