It’s finally a day late as the Mozilla Foundation has unveiled the fourth beta of its Firefox browser 4. And by adding two surprises because against all odds, the rival Internet Explorer browser now includes its Sync service, ex-Weave , and the extension Tab Candy Tab renamed Panorama. Mozilla has reworked Personas , which is now an integral part of Firefox.
With Sync, Firefox 4 beta 4 promotes online storage and synchronization with a mobile data such as bookmarks, cache and passwords that you use on your computer. To preserve confidentiality, these elements are encrypted as they pass through the servers of Mozilla from one device to another.
The Overview Tab function allows for its improved tab management , especially when many of them are open. They can be rearranged at will and grouped by “affinity” in a different interface from that of the browser window. Integrating this function remains incomplete, which implies that other beta of Firefox 4 will be available before the release of the final version.
Finally, as expected, Mozilla now has Firefox’s built hardware acceleration to relieve the processor and improve the rendering of 2D animation in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

A LG Vice President, in an interview, said that their upcoming tablet will be better than the iPad because it will allow for more content creation.

The Wall Street Journal have reported that, Chang Ma, who is vice president of Marketing at LG has said that the “LG tablet will best the iPad by allowing content creation”.

He acknowledged the iPad as a ‘great device’, but claimed that LG’s upcoming tablet (to be released by Q4) will be better than it”.  Ma said that he doesn’t use his iPad work and that is where LG’s tablet will succeed.  The tablet will focus on allowing users to create documents, programs and videos.

The display should not be a problem for LG either,  they make the screens for the iPad and should be able to match its display easily.

I’m still not convinced about the tablet, and I don’t think it will be an iPad ‘killer’ as it will most likely be running Windows 7, an OS not designed for the touchscreen.  iOS however has been built for a touchscreen so it is really nice to use.

Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2011 is to be released in October in the United States. There will be three version in thirteen diffrent languages. This version will also be 32 bit only.

Source: AppleInsider

The three version will be:

• Office for Mac Home and Student 2011
• Office for Mac Home and Business 2011
• Office for Mac Academic 2011

See all the details and pricing after the jump.

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta is now available!

Forefront Endpoint Protection simplifies and improves endpoint protection while greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection. This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.

Download available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx

There’s a new security threat running rampant on Facebook that’s infecting thousands of computers a day.

It’s a new, updated version of the KoobFace worm, Koobface is one of the world’s biggest botnets.

Facebook users will receive a message claiming to take them to a youtube video through a bit.ly or tinyURL link and then display a “Video is loading” screen.

While this screen is displaying, it is installing a virus onto any windows computer viewing that page which makes the computer part of a botnet and sends Facebook messages containing the infected link to all their friends.

This is what a typical message looks like…

IT professionals can now download Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta through the TechNet Evaluation Center. This combined service pack includes changes to both Windows platforms. The beta release is not available to home users.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

The download is available from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx