I found a post about Star Wars: the Old Republic's beta events on SWTOR's official forum . Below is the post:

Bioware has opened a new website for the beta tester recruitment in this January and set to launch the closed beta test in spring of 2011. I do not want to make any arbitrary decisions to this release, but maybe Bioware just want to drop a hint for their remote beta.

Anyway, a new beta launch portal has been found but there are no features available. You can log in to the launch page if you have a swtor.com account.