Technology/Software news

Apple® today announced a significant update to Final Cut Studio® with more than 100 new features and new versions of Final Cut Pro®, Motion, Soundtrack® Pro, Color and Compressor.

Apple® today unveiled the next version of Logic Studio® with major upgrades to Logic® Pro and MainStage® and more than 200 new features that simplify complex tasks.

ChinaCache, a leading content delivery network (CDN) service provider in China, today announced that Mozilla Online Ltd, the provider of Firefox in the Chinese mainland, has chosen ChinaCache to deliver downloads in the region.

Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (SP2) today -- a midcycle free update that is designed to improve the Office 2008 experience where it matters most to customers: speed, stability and compatibility.

Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless today announced that the PC770 2-in-1 PC Card and Express Card.

Data Shows Growing Market, High Engagement for Android Application Users, Providing Strong Vehicle for Marketers and Revenue Opportunity for App Developers

More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the public betas of Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 and ColdFusion® Builder® software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments and delivers rich and interactive experiences for users. ColdFusion Builder is a new Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE) used for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications.

Communication Server 1000 Release 6.0 Delivers Key Enhancements; Tops Competitors in Energy Efficiency

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the next phase of its deduplication strategy to help organizations reduce data, reduce management complexity and reduce infrastructure so they can stop buying storage, recover information faster and improve return on virtualization.

Fujitsu to offer royalty-free Windows 7 upgrades on all new PCs and notebooks pre-loaded with Windows Vista

Logitech Vid Software Designed Exclusively for Video Calls, Sets Up With Webcam Installation

North American consumers can enjoy the best of today’s technologies and tomorrow’s operating system

Major update to browser delivers significant performance improvements, privacy enhancements, support for new Web standards, and greater customization options

Microsoft Corp. today announced the start of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program enabling consumers and small businesses to receive Windows 7 when they purchase a qualifying Windows Vista personal computer starting June 26, 2009. Under the program, designated PCs pre-installed with premium versions of Windows Vista will qualify for licenses of the equivalent Windows 7 product.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is offering millions of companies and consumers the chance to save hundreds of dollars on each of their Microsoft Office licenses by providing support for Microsoft Office 2007 with the newest version of Lotus Symphony, IBM's free of charge productivity software suite.

Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows.

Displaced Workers Now Have Access to 17 Products and Enhanced eLearning; Employers Get Discount for Hiring Program Participants; New Term License for AutoCAD software

Citi announced today that it has introduced Web and Mobile versions of the CitiFX Pro margin FX trading platform for Hong Kong clients. CitiFX Pro clients are now able to access their accounts and trade realtime via three state-of-the-art platforms: CitiFX ProTrader (the current desktop version), CitiFX Pro Web and CitiFX Pro Mobile.

Introduction of Mediaroom with virtualization delivers up to sixfold reduction in server hardware; it now also provides an ideal platform for small deployments and reduces operator costs to launch and grow IPTV services.