Adobe today announced it has reached a deal to acquire ECM vendor Day Software . In a telephone interview, Erik Larson Senior Director of Product Management at Adobe, cited Day’s technology’s scalability and social features and the company’s support for open-source software as the primary factors driving the acquisition. According to Day’s website , “Day Chief Scientist Roy Fielding was co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation , author of the Apache Software license, and creator of the Apache web server.” Day has contributed to 12 Apache projects and 25 other open-source projects.
A study from wireless billing vendor Validas has revealed that Verizon Wireless smartphone owners are now exceeding the data usage of iPhone owners, who are currently restricted to AT&T. According to the study, average data consumption on Verizon smartphones is 421 MB, as opposed to 338 MB on the iPhone. And out of all the vendors, Verizon Wireless has seen the largest data usage increase over the past year – from 33.4% to 42.9%, year over year. Sponsor Since Blackberry devices were excluded from the study (and compress data anyway), that leaves Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian and Palm’s webOS to blame (or thank?) for the Verizon phones’ data-hogging ways.
With today’s acquisition of Day Software , a Swiss web content management software company, Adobe continues to fill out its enterprise software line. The two companies reached an agreement for Adobe to acquire all of the publicly held shares of Day Software. Founded in 1993 in Base, Switzerland, Day Software has 146 employees. The company reported 2009 revenues of 36.6 million Swiss Francs ($35.5 million)
The company’s not committing to any US carriers just yet ( ahem ), but LG is already puffing up its chest and talking big about its impending Windows Phone 7 release plans. To date, all we’ve had to go on was Microsoft’s vow of seeing WP7 devices on store shelves before this holiday season , but now Ken Hong, an LG representative in Seoul, has offered a wee bit more insight regarding his company in particular. To quote: “We have a deep relationship with Microsoft so expect to have a couple [of Windows Phone 7 handsets] by the end of this year.” That aligns rather nicely with what we heard ourselves back in Feburary, and given that LG’s mobile division has seen some rather unsightly losses in its most recent quarterly earnings, we’re guessing the company’s more than eager to push out the next big thing. LG aiming to ship ‘a couple’ of Windows Phone 7 devices by year-end originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:01:00 EDT
First Look , iPad A few weeks ago, when we first looked at the hybrid iPhone/iPad game Ping Pong Battle , it wasn’t quite ready for prime time; one of the marquee features, video-out from the ‘table’ iPad, wasn’t finalized. With an update to the apps due to hit the App Store sometime today, PPB achieves that milestone and adds some key table tennis industry branding. PPB delivers a ping pong experience by making the iPhones into motion-sensitive ‘paddles’ and putting the table onto the iPad screen.
Steam is gathering on the rumors that Google is planing to launch a Facebook competitor that will focus on social gaming. The company is supposedly in talks with a number of online game makers in order to build a stable for launch, according to unnamed individuals speaking to the Wall Street Journal . However, even if Google succeeds in launching a social network that will keep users’ interest, it seems unlikely that it will make much of a dent in Facebook in the near term. According to the WSJ ’s sources, Google is currently talking to Playdom, Electronic Arts’ Playfish, and Zynga (maker of the popular Facebook game Farmville ).
Apple iPad has created a new wave with more and more PC manufacturers diverting their direction to develop touchscreen based tablet PC targeted for consumer market space. If you wonder the same trend is true for embedded market, the recently announced resistive touch screen with multitouch capability from Fujitsu may clear your doubt. With the RIM Files Patent Combining Resistive and Capacitive Touch Screen Capability into One Fujitsu’s First UMPC With Twisty Screen HTC’Innovative Patent Idea of Getting Future Stylus to Work on Capacitive Touch Screen Fujitsu TH700 Tablet PC Features Dual Digitizer Technology Fujitsu Announces New Lifebook N7010 with Multiple Displays
Think giant active-shutter glasses are a roadblock to 3D adoption? Wait until you get a load of this, the N-3D from Aircord Labs, a glass pyramid with semi-reflective sides that allows you to peer through while reflecting the image of a screen above. In this case the screen is provided by an iPad which, as you can see in the video below, separately renders three sides of an object.
So who out there hasn’t been inspired by that Italian, barrel dodging, monster beating, cute as a button in his little overalls plumber Mario? I bet no hands come up for this, well maybe a few skeptics. But I’ve never actually heard of anyone taking the time out to list the things that we learned from Mario and his pals. There’s a first for everything I guess and in this case, JoystickDivision.com, who seem to be true fans of the franchise, have made a list of five things that the gaming world has learned from Mario starting off with – Being Assertive, followed by if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, then there was the dangers of Nepotism which was followed by taking your time to explore your surroundings as it just might lead to strange and wonderful discoveries and finally be wary of jocks, for reasons only a true fan/hardcore gamer will find obvious.
Israel is in the technology news again with another new invention. This time they’ve got the nose in mind. When it comes to using body parts to control technology we’ve tapped into the use of quite a few of our God-given appendages.
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany . This column originally appeared on his blog .) If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire? My wife and I had dinner recently with a friend of hers from high school and Tom, her husband – whom I had never met before. I took one look at his suit and guessed “high-powered lawyer
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No one will accuse The Dream Machine of looking generic. Created in part as a response to the seemingly endless stream of similar-looking games on the market, the developers at Cockroach Inc. built The Dream Machine to be something different: a stop-motion, episodic, point-and-click adventure. Ars spoke with Anders Gustafsson, one half of Cockroach, to learn just how to make a game out of cardboard and clay.
It’s not the first time that I’ve had this question on my mind, but reading Matt Prigge’s post last week — which echoed my own sentiments about cloud computing — led me to contemplate why we seem to consider Google’s cloud more trustworthy than others. Nobody pushes cloud computing harder than Google: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Apps, Google this, Google that. It’s all based on a framework of remote resources and an amorphous blob of processing that’s been tuned to spit out whatever we happen to be looking for, accept whatever documents we create, and send email and IM messages. And unlike so many other cloud service providers, Google seems to be accepted in this role, while others inspire skepticism
Bristol Rovers aren’t a good side. They finished in the middle of League One this past season. But in HatchC2’s FIFA 10 universe, they’re in their third English Premier League season, and first Champions League finals appearance, facing Bayern Munich.
