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)
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.
(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
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
You don’t often see sports here on ReadWriteWeb, but next week there’s an interesting event happening in Melbourne, Australia: the Digital Sport Summit . It’s going to look at how “social media and mobile technology is taking fan engagement to a whole new level,” with topics ranging from iPhone app development to “social media from an athlete’s perspective.” More info inside. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calendar using the link beside each entry, or download the entire thing as an iCal file (which is importable into Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, etc.) or even view it as a world map .
If you’ve been glued to the World Cup, you’ll know that there’s more to the matches than soccer ( football for our international audience). I’m talking about those incessant horns — the vuvuzelas . They’re really catching people’s attention, for all the wrong reasons. It got me thinking .
They say history is written by the victors, but the reality is that Hollywood prefers a sexy story. The upcoming movie, “ The Social Network ,” is based on the semi-fictionalized accounts of those jilted during the founding of Facebook. Starring Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield (who’s about to be the next Spider-Man), written by Andrew Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, produced by Kevin Spacey, scored by Trent Reznor, and about a massive cultural phenomenon, there’s a good chance people are actually going to pay attention to this movie. “ The Social Network ,” due in theaters October 1, was inspired by “The Accidental Billionaires,” an unauthorized, dramatized account billed as a non-fiction work by Ben Mezrich, who popularized the (similarly embellished) story of MIT students taking over Vegas in “Bringing Down the House.” Mezrich’s book is told from the perspective of three early influences on Facebook who were screwed out of their roles in the company by founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Tyler Winklevoss (who, along with his brother, informally hired Zuckerberg to build a similar site, which Zuckerberg bailed on while creating and launched what was then called thefacebook; they sued and received $65 million), Eduardo Saverin (Zuckerberg’s Harvard friend who financed the early days of the company and was diluted out of his stake after it raised outside funding) and Sean Parker (who was Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley role model, but was kicked out of the company after getting busted at a party where there were drugs and an underage Facebook employee)
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Should you pay to trademark your product or service? – Trademarks protect your company’s service or product, but can cost thousands of dollars. Attorney Curtis Smolar notes, though, that you may be able to get the same protections without paying anything at all.
Details about Android 3.0 — aka Gingerbread — are already appearing on the web , and it sounds like Google is trying to stem the fragmentation caused by having so many versions of its platform in the market. One reason for this image of fragmentation is the special interface enhancements some vendors are putting on their Android phones, and a major change to appear in Gingerbread is a locked-down user interface that will give Android a more uniform look. This will certainly help the platform’s image with consumers, but it does raise concerns as to whether or not these limitations will restrict handset makers from creating brands through interface enhancements, such as HTC’s Sense and Samsung’s TouchWiz. Amazon created a platform around the Kindle reader by producing apps for smartphones that can use content in the Kindle book store without requiring the electronic reader
Tired of iPhone news? Then you’ll like this week’s top-stories list: None of them are about an Apple product. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Watch out for an Orange Cone on the Internet of Things ; augmented reality from Qualcomm is coming to Android this fall; and Google makes the news more real-time than ever. Read on for more.
This past week the new mashups added to our mashup directory used 25 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include BlankSlate , Google Gears , Meetup and TokBox . The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps , Twitter and YouTube . And the most commonly used types of APIs were Shopping (3 APIs, 4 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 6 mashups) and Internet (3 APIs, 3 mashups)
Web technology has revolutionized finance by making it easier than ever to monitor cash flow and track trends in your spending. Mint.com has been a leader in this realm for personal finance: its technology helps you track multiple accounts, analyze spending trends, and manage financial goals. There isn’t a clear counterpart to Mint for businesses, though. That’s where inDinero , a Y-Combinator-funded startup, comes in.
Here’s the latest action: Apple TV due for an upgrade — Rumor has it that the humdrum Apple TV service launched four years ago will get a fresh upgrade, including a transition to the iOS operating system that powers the iPad and iPhone. Wired has more . New funding for broadband — President Barack Obama announced today that the federal government will funnel money into 66 projects intended to extend broadband into remote and impoverished regions of the U.S. Schmidt addresses Google threats — Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Activate summit today, where he took a holistic look at all of the threats confronting the search engine and emphasized the importance of mobile over internet strategy
