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Apple’s OS programmers are moving quickly to new versions, with the first betas for all of Apple’s major operating system updates having arrived.

Apple’s iOS for Education initiatives have received a timely boost just ahead of the 2016 new school year, with the first developer beta of iOS 9.3 delivering new education features.

Those brave enough to try a sneak peek of Apple’s latest iOS 9 in a more stable ‘public beta’ than earlier developer betas can now do so.

The journey towards Windows 10 Mobile takes another step towards completion with the launch of the latest build 10149.

Ello bills itself as a ‘revolutionary social network’ that’s ad-free and ‘never’ sells user-data, and now it has relaunched as a V2 beta.

As widely expected and predicted, Cortana is coming to Windows 10, with the first look at an early and definitely non-final version leaked by a Windows watching website.

Towards the end of January 2015 is when the world can expect to finally see a consumer oriented preview of its next Windows operating system, Windows 10, with a stack of new features to be unveiled, including a new touch interface, and presumably Cortana, too.

The beta for Destiny, the first post-Halo game from developer superstars Bungie, has wrapped up and the company released some statistics showing the game was played a whole lot.

Google’s next phone might be the last one you ever need - Project Ara involves highly customisable, build-your-own handsets where you can pick and choose which parts you want in your phone, and swap them out whenever you want.

Google has announced a number of new services in a targeted effort to protect news organisations and human rights groups from cyber effects and, more broadly, 'free expression' on the Internet.

Bungie's highly-anticipated upcoming “shared-world shooter” Destiny isn't coming until mid-next year, but the company is letting a few lucky gamers get in on the action way early.

If you signed in to your iCloud account this morning or over the weekend, you may already have noticed a set of new icons on the main page as Apple has opened the iWork for iCloud beta to the public.

Today Symantec released the public betas of the latest versions of Norton 360, Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus products, designed for Windows 8.1 compatibility.

The New York Times has released its much-hyped Google Glass app into the wild.

Chatty gamers have a new way of shouting orders after Razer today announced that its Razer Comms chat software is now in open beta.

Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop CS6 - the latest version of its popular image editing suite. It's a chance for users to try things out and provide the developers with feedback prior to the expected release before the middle of this year.

Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview has already been downloaded more than one million times since its launch a couple of weeks ago, and so far, it's looking good, while still needing work before retail availability.

Symantec has launched its new 'Identity Safe' cloud service for ID protection and simple, secure password management as a free download for Windows PCs, Apple's iDevices and all those Androids.

Beta releases of security software aren't for everybody, but anybody can download the beta release of Norton 360 version 6.0.

Mozilla's new release cadence means the Firefox 7 beta was released alongside Firefox 6. And Firefox 8 beta isn't far away.