The Beta Patrol

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.

It
is time to announce the program and begin the Beta testing! We are
looking for horses (and their people) to participate in this test, and
we hope  you (and your horse) will participate in this innovative
program.

By participating in this Beta test, you and your horse will garner:

• A 30 minute Reiki session
• Feedback from Reiki Fur Babies on your horse’s condition
• I will communicate with your horse, enabling you to hear from your horse’s mouth his feelings/experiences surrounding the Reiki session.

Hive Rise is an extremely fast running real
time strategy game. It takes place on huge maps, each providing space
for over 1000 human players. There are 12 different play modes, each
offering a unique trophy. What makes it even more outstanding is the
fact that the short matches (about 10 minutes) can be started at once
without having to wait for teammates.

Chirplinks Beta is coming soon  Visit the link below and Follow their Twitter at http://twitter.com/chirplinks

This beta release showcases many of the new features that will be
available in the upcoming stable release:

• Zend_Rest_Route, Zend_Rest_Controller, and
  Zend_Controller_Plugin_PutHandler, which aid in providing
  RESTful resources via the MVC layer.
• Zend_Feed_Reader, which provides a common API to RSS and
  Atom feeds, as well as extensions to each format, caching, and a slew of
  other functionality.
• Zend_Queue and Zend_Service_Amazon_Sqs, which
  provide the ability to use local and remote messaging and queue services for
  offloading asynchronous processes.
• Zend_Db_Table updates to allow using
  Zend_Db_Table as a concrete class by passing it one or more
  table definitions via the constructor.
• Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db, which provides Zend_Db
  support for PHPUnit’s DBUnit support, allowing developers to do functional
  and integration testing against databases using data fixtures.
• Annotation processing support for Zend_Pdf, as well as
  performance improvements.
• Zend_Dojo custom build layer support.
• Numerous Zend_Ldap improvements.
• Zend_Log_Writer_Syslog, a Zend_Log writer for
  writing to your system log.
• Several new view helpers, including
  Zend_View_Helper_BaseUrl.

Again, this is a beta release; do not use it in production
environments.

We hope to provide our initial release candidate early next week, so please
test now so we can take care of any lingering issues in the existing
functionality!

Peerpong provides you an easy way to connect with the right Twitter users to get direct answers fast. Save time and have fun!

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CJ Internet, the leading global entertainment company, today announced
the launch of the Mini Fighter closed beta test and released a new
gameplay trailer showcasing in-game battles. In the short week leading
up to the launch of the beta, thousands of players pre-registered for
beta keys and downloaded the Mini Fighter client. Eager players will
now have the opportunity to explore various battle zones – including
tag match, free battle and gem catch– and battle opponents in 14
different modes, as well as participate in a variety of community
events throughout the closed beta phase.

(Free-Press-Release.com) July 23, 2009 –

JustBought.it is a location-based social tool that allows you to share photos
and tweets on amazing finds and one-of-a-kind purchases as you stumble upon them.

Discover awesome new stuff, see what your friends are buying, and stay
up-to-the-minute on where the hottest deals are!