Software Industry Announcements and News
Leading Australian Broadcaster Selects Adobe Flash Platform to Deliver Tour de France Live on the Web
[ No Comments ] Posted on 07.03.09 under Audio & Multimedia
World-Famous Race Delivered in High-Quality Video to Cycling Fans Online
SAN JOSE, Calif.–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that leading Australian public broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) will stream the 96th annual Tour de France live online using Adobe® Flash® technology, the No. 1 platform for delivering video on the Web*. Cycling fans throughout Australia will be able to watch the most prestigious and well-known bicycling event in the world, via the SBS Web site at www.sbs.com.au/tdf. The race begins on July 4 and continues through July 27, 2009 with 21 stages, covering a total distance of 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles).
Read the rest of this entry…
Digital River Launches E-Commerce Operations for Tripwire
[ No Comments ] Posted on 07.02.09 under ASP Member Companies, Business
Supports global business-to-business software sales
MINNEAPOLIS–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it signed a new e-commerce agreement with Tripwire, Inc., a leader in data center compliance and infrastructure management software. Tripwire is working with Digital River to expand its business-to-business (B2B) online sales and e-marketing programs on a global basis. Recently, Digital River launched an online store at http://store.vwire.com, which supports downloads of software trials and purchases of host licenses using the US Dollar, Euro, Australian Dollar and Great Britain Pound.
Read the rest of this entry…
fCoder Group, Inc. Localizes Image Software for German Users
[ No Comments ] Posted on 07.01.09 under Development
Speed, quality and ease of use make ImageConverter Plus
a natural choice for home and office management of graphics.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (June 23, 2009) – A newly improved, German language version of ImageConverter Plus has been launched by fCoder Group, Inc., a software company based in Virginia.
The ImageConverter Plus software is designed to quickly process huge batches of photos and other graphics with minimal hands-on interaction, saving time for more important tasks. The software supports numerous formats as well as right-click manipulation in Windows Explorer, allowing users to select uniform image size, file format and destination folders for the automatic conversion of any large group of photos, faxes and other types of images.
Read the rest of this entry…
Insofta Cover Commander 3.1: Give Your Virtual Covers and Boxes a Winning Look!
[ No Comments ] Posted on 06.30.09 under Audio & Multimedia, Desktop Publishing
Insofta Development has unveiled the newest version of Insofta Cover Commander, a powerful tool providing the effective solution to quickly and easily create quality custom-designed three-dimensional virtual boxes for software, e-books, DVDs, manuals, CD-ROMs and screenshots. Version 3.1 delivers a host of improvements to ensure even more solid and professional look for virtual covers and boxes, attracting the attention of the prospective customers.
Enhancements in the latest version of Insofta Cover Commander include support for batch processing from command line, providing a perfect solution for creating large number of similar virtual boxes, books, and many more. This feature is essential for those who create covers and boxes for on-line shops, catalogs and other large projects. The program now also allows saving animation in SWF, GIF and AVI format, which means more effects for the cover catching customer’s eye.
Read the rest of this entry…
Digital River Introduces Mobile Commerce Offering
[ No Comments ] Posted on 06.29.09 under ASP Member Companies, Business, Communications
E-commerce storefront tailors shopper experience for PC and mobile browsers
MINNEAPOLIS–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce services, introduced a new mobile commerce offering that includes a smart online storefront. Designed with built-in logic, the smart e-storefront automatically tailors its display and payment options for PC computers or mobile devices – all while creating a seamless and user-friendly experience for the high-tech shopper. With this added flexibility, online merchants can provide a better customer experience, reaching shoppers when and where it is most convenient for them.
“Now, through a single e-commerce storefront, merchants can open up their businesses to the online market and reach customers via both PC’s and mobile devices,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “By adding m-commerce capabilities to our already proven e-commerce platform, we can help online merchants enter and test the mobile market, and expand their revenue opportunities without extra start-up and maintenance costs. We plan to continue to expand our mobile commerce capabilities to help our clients be even more competitive in the mobile marketplace.”
Digital River’s new m-commerce solution is ideal for software publishers interested in selling mobile versions of existing products, as well as companies that want to enter the mobile market to meet the demands of a growing base of mobile shoppers. The solution supports PayPal Mobile in addition to Digital River’s existing suite of payment options, which includes credit and debit card processing, online banking and wire transfers. This diverse selection of payment methods allows merchants to drive conversion rates and provide a more mobile-friendly environment for shoppers.
To complement this new mobile commerce offering, Digital River’s email marketing service provider, BlueHornet Networks, offers a solution that allows marketers to optimize their emails to ensure that the messages render properly for over 85 percent of the global mobile market. The solution supports all major mobile operating systems including, BlackBerry®, Symbian OS™, Microsoft® Windows Mobile®, Apple® iPhone™ OS and others.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software and game publishers, consumer electronics manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices across the U.S. as well as Brazil, China, England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg and Taiwan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
Quicken Offers up to $50 Savings; Invitation to Microsoft ‘Money’ Customers
[ No Comments ] Posted on 06.28.09 under ASP Member Companies, Business
Offer Will Help ‘Money’ Customers Continue Meet Their Financial Goals
SAN DIEGO–As part of a new promotion, Microsoft Money users can save up to $50 on Quicken desktop personal finance software purchases through July 31, 2009. The offer from Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) follows Microsoft’s announcement that it is discontinuing “Money,” its competing product, at the end of the month.
Read the rest of this entry…