Tag Archives : Software release life cycle

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]

Older version of Yahoo Mail Yahoo has announced the launch of a cleaner, faster and more social version of Yahoo Mail. Blake Irving, Yahoo’s executive vice president and chief products officer, launched the new design at Yahoo’s headquarters here during an event  called “Product Runway.” Yahoo said that its 281 million Yahoo Mail users will start seeing the new design [...]

Apple Apple iOS 4.2 beta made available to developers signed on to its development program. iOS 4.2  is suppose to add a number of features, especially for the iPad, in the form of multi-tasking, AirPlay, folder organization, the ability to print from your iPad and more. Apple has also announced that it is releasing a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch [...]

IE 9 Microsoft’s is all geared up  to release Internet Explorer 9, the new version of Internet Explorer browser to all and sundry  today. IE9 Beta is reported to be a beta that’s technically complete, so we shouldn’t have much to fear when the download is available later today. We are waiting to see how it will stand up to Firefox 4.0 which is also in beta. “Web browsing [...]

Facebook on Palm OS Palm has released Facebook for Palm webOS 1.3, the release includes dozens of new features and enhancements, many of which were prompted or refined based on the user feedback. Highlights include selectable feeds, comments in the feed, photo tagging, landscape mode, clearing multiple notifications at once, and lots of performance enhancements. We are impressed with the importance [...]

Twitter Twitter has announced a new beta service called Site Streams a new feature on the Streaming API. The new functionality allows mobile push services  to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in without having to deal with Twitter’s REST API rate limits. “The initial version delivers events created by, or directed to, users that have shared [...]

Firefox Mozilla has released a new beta version of its browser Firefox. Firefox 4 includes two very interesting features namely Firefox Sync and Panorama Tabs. The new features allow users to sync their settings and create tab sets. Firefox Sync, allows users to access the  bookmarks, history, awesome bar settings, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs across multiple computers and mobile devices [...]

Blackberry App World BlackBerry maker Research In Motion(RIM) announced  that BlackBerry App World is now available for all BlackBerry owners and is no longer in beta version. Blackberry app developers could offer apps for $0.99 and $1.99, the payment options are either credit card or  carrier billing. User’s BlackBerry ID can be used to manage account information across multiple devices, [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Apple has announced the availability of an updated iPhone SDK 3.2 which would enable developers to write applications for the iPad. The latest update is the 3rd beta version of the SDK. The release of Beta 3 has been quite dramatic to say the least – First, Apple made the Beta 3 available, then shortly after the release, it decided to pull the release back. [...]