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.

With Google’s Wave and Buzz efforts having suffered a bit of buzzkill, Google is waving goodbye to its previous efforts and saying hello to what it hopes will be a real plus for social networkers.

Although Symantec has only recently launched its Norton 360 v5 software, which uses Norton’s Internet Security and AV engine while being even easier to use and including features like backup, times does not stand still with Symantec’s 2012 Internet Security and AV betas bouncing into view and beta testing from today.

Microsoft has been talking up Silverlight 5 for a couple of months, and now the beta is here.

Another beta of Firefox 4 arrived over the weekend. Can the release version be far away?

It’s no longer just Nokia offering free navigation on a range of its smartphones, but now Google too, on Android phones running OS 1.6 and up, ensuring most phones on the market either already work from today or will with a free Android market download of the latest Google Maps version.

Google is finally bringing its “Google Maps Navigation” to Australians at last on the 17th of November, but which mobile users and phones will be able to take advantage, and will it replace your GPS?

Firefox 4.0 beta 7 is only a beta, but it's "stable and safe to use for daily web browsing" according to Mozilla officials.