I think many of you still remember Eudora, once a popular free email client. Mozilla has took over the project and renamed it to Penelope. The good news is Mozilla has released a beta version of this email client for all of us to try it out. Many of you may be wondering why Mozilla is developing Penelope as they already have a popular Thunderbird on hand. Well this is what quoted from Mozilla site :

Eudora is a mail and news application from Qualcomm based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It’s *not* our intention to compete with
Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.

Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with
Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they
previously have.

Whereas “Eudora” is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra features added by the Eudora developers, “Penelope” is an extension (also
called an “add-on”) that is used in Eudora and can also be used with Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of
Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with
Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly and it’s not something that gets tested.

Sometimes in documentation there is a need to differentiate the older versions of Eudora made by Qualcomm from current Thunderbird-based versions
of Eudora. This will normally be done by labeling the older versions of Eudora as “original Eudora” or “Classic Eudora”.

You can download the beta version at Mozilla website

Good news to Kaspersky fans including myself. In their forum, one of the pioneer beta tester reported that a new version of Kaspersky’s security products are in development and will release for beta-testing in Fall and plan to release officially in 2008. They have included some most powerful technologies that no other antivirus developer is using currently.

The following is what reported in the forum :

• Personal line up of version 8 products will be released in 2008. Beta testing will start in Winter. Forum testing in Fall.
• Version 8 is based on in-house new protection concepts and technologies, which have no current analogies on the market as we know it.
• For now requirements and standards for the first version are completed. The product is in active development stage.
• The core team contains the same people who brought you version 6.0. However some additional members from 7.0 joined development forces with us.
• Some improvements planned for v8 will be included in v7 MP1, which will be released by the end of this year.
• During v8 testing the particular attention will be paid to the forum threads. A separate KL team member will be allocated just for reading your suggestions and bug reports (in addition to all other KL members, which are already present on the forum)
• In v8 we are planning to use several new technologies, which are developed cooperatively together with KL and other companies
• The new GUI is again rewritten from scratch. Only small components of v6/7 are utlized
• The main window is completely brand new and changed as compared to version 7.
• The number components in the main navigator window is currently counted as six.
• In the product interface it is planned to use graphical objects for dynamic and additional statistical information display
• The product plans to utilize several online-services
• Wi-Fi networks and protection routines will be expanded as compared to previous versions.
• One of the product option, will perform a through inspection for maximum details through certain defined inspection points.