Technology/Software news

Babylon Announces the Launch of its New Version - Babylon 8; After More Than 55 Million Users Worldwide and Following the Success of Previous Versions, Comes the New and Innovative Version - Babylon 8

At its annual investor briefing today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the availability of its unique "stream computing" software that enables massive amounts of data to be analyzed in real time, delivering extremely fast, accurate insights to enable smarter business decision-making. The new software is called IBM System S

Nik Software announces today that Sharpener Pro 3.0, its popular digital photographic plug-in offering the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution for photographers, is now available for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and higher.

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of a new BlackBerry push API (application programming interface) that will enable developers to push real-time content to BlackBerry® smartphones.

As demand for mobile apps continues to grow, AT&T* today released the top 10 performing applications based on new sales from January through March, offering a closer look at what consumers are doing with their phones beyond talking, texting and tweeting.

First server workload profiling, analysis and planning solution to give customers ongoing visibility into their virtual infrastructure

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced that all Cruzer® Enterprise models currently shipping are FIPS certified, offering corporate and government IT departments a valuable tool in managing their secure hardware ecosystem.

Business Analytics Features Generate New Intelligence

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced support for the Adobe® Flash® Platform for the Digital Home. The optimized implementation of Flash technology for Internet connected televisions, set-top boxes (STB), Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room is expected to be supported on NXP’s IP STB platforms, the STB225 and STB222.

“Strobe” to Simplify Delivery of Custom Online Media Players for Content Owners

Closes Outblaze Ltd. Asset Acquisition to deliver Secure Web Mail on LotusLive.com

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model for e-mail solutions is proving attractive for many customers and will represent 20 percent of the commercial e-mail market by the end of 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2007, the SaaS e-mail market represented 1 percent of the commercial e-mail market.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it expanded its leadership in the overall storage software market according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, March 2009, which also reported 15.1 percent year-over-year revenue growth in that market. This growth outpaces both the market and all competitors.

Multimedia Authoring and Game Development Platform Supports New Audio, Video and 3D Capabilities

Next-generation SUSE Linux Enterprise platform delivers cost-effective, mission-critical computing across the enterprise, including physical, virtual, appliance and cloud deployments

New beta program brings Skype voice calling to SIP-based PBX systems

HP today announced that Choice Hotels International, Inc. selected the HP Compliance Log Warehouse (CLW) 2.0 to address regulatory demands and reduce risk to its business.

New browser focuses on top customer needs, including security, ease of use and performance.

Apple® today previewed its iPhone™ OS 3.0 software and announced the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) releases ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v1.4, the fourth installment of the free toolkit with significant enhancements for developers. ATI Stream technology is a combination of hardware and software that leverages the immense capabilities of AMD graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate compute-intensive applications.