My 11 year old tried out the beta version the other week and he played nonstop for an hour.
The beta version of the common SDK will be released in early October.
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Today the company hit the reset button on the beta version of its shop and went back to square one.
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"Peter tested the beta version of Zfone that existed last April, and that bug has since been fixed, " Zimmerman added.
In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.
Those who have signed up for the beta version will be notified as the company rolls out the service in the near future.
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The beta version of the new Deezer app for Andoid is available for download here and a final version will be accessible via Google Play soon.
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The beta version of Gov.UK has been live for most of the year, so the team has had time to test and work out the kinks.
Microsoft uses Rocky in Office 98 for the Apple Macintosh, for which over 25, 000 licences have been sold in the UK, and in some 500, 000 copies of the beta version of Office 2000.
The Windows 8 operating system that was provided to developers is a precursor to the beta version, and is far from the final product, which is expected to be available some time in 2012.
So far the beta version of Everything.
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The official syncing program for Mac users isn't available yet, but I had a chance to try the beta version, and it was surprisingly smooth at syncing music from my iTunes library and photos and video from iPhoto.
Wachovia analyst Phillip Rueppel says the beta version of Microsoft's Hyper-V isn't wowing customers because it lacks some critical features, such as so-called live migration, the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they're running.
For example, the beta version we took for a spin was only compatible with the Xbox 360, but the final product is set to play nice with the PS3, PC and Wii U, in addition to next-gen consoles via a software update.
By contrast, Powers claims that in the beta version of Mplayit, which has been around for six months, over one in 10 users who viewed a video of an app on the platform clicked through to purchase the app on the App Store.
Amid complaints of too sparse a selection of downloads to choose from and long load times for apps in past builds of its online application store, RIM has started pushing out BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 on Tuesday, replacing the beta version for long-suffering BlackBerry users, who will now enjoy a revised UI and faster loading apps.
The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 is still being optimised and, unlike other betas, is connected to the live servers allowing everyone to play together on both Mac and Windows based computers.
Starting today, SCE will release the open beta version of PS Suite SDK (free of charge) through Developer Program for PS Suite (Open Beta).
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Windows Me is scheduled for retail release later this year, and the third beta version will soon be sent off to testers and Microsoft partners.
The open beta version of PS Suite SDK incorporates a 2D graphics game engine and 2D physical engine, as well as a variety of content samples which utilize these libraries, in order to help developers create content that is optimized for portable devices.
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Neither version eight or the latest, beta version nine of Internet Explorer are vulnerable.
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The current, beta version of Siri can talk to you in an uncannily human-like way about the weather or where to get dinner, but if you ask it about anything in the news, the best it can do is refer you to Google.
Tools such as Google's Blogger, MovableType and the recently launched beta version of MSN Spaces are making it easier to run a blog.
We'd already gotten the official word that H.264 support was included in Windows 7, but a tipster has lead us to believe that the pre-beta version of Windows 7 also includes native support for DivX.
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The release of a beta version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, has stirred interest amongst the geeky hordes who rejected Vista early on.
Though we were originally told in January that we could expect Android and iOS versions of the browser sometime this month, representatives at the company's booth at MWC noted that what we're seeing is actually a pre-beta version and the final product is "coming soon" with no specific timetable given.
They first released via an iOS app, and as of today they are now available on the web (beta-version).
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The app is still in its beta, or first version, and the company says it will continue to improve.
They are also working with a friend to create a beta version of the site.
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At the moment a very early beta version is accessible only by a select group.
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