Software Industry Announcements and News


Adobe Study Reveals Tablet Users Were Biggest Online Spenders in 2011

[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.23.12 under Business, Development

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced findings from its inaugural Adobe® Digital Marketing Insights report, designed to provide marketing, e-commerce, and retail executives with critical intelligence about digital marketing. The study evaluated how purchasing behavior is impacted by the device consumers used to visit retail websites. In the study, one of the most comprehensive of its kind, Adobe analyzed 16.2 billion anonymous visits to the websites of more than 150 top U.S. retailers. Results showed that, during the 2011 holiday season and throughout 2011, tablet visitors spent more per purchase than visitors using smartphones or traditional desktops and laptops, suggesting that tablet visitors were the most valuable online customers in 2011.

Key Report Findings Included

Tablet visitors spent 54 percent more than smartphone visitors and 21 percent more per purchase than desktop/laptop visitors.
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HM2GO: A Free Mini Web Server for Local WebHelp

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.21.11 under ASP Member Companies, Development

EC Software, manufacturer of the leading Help & Manual help authoring suite, has just released a free mini web server called Help & Manual 2 Go that solves a common problem associated with modern HTML-based documentation.

Technical documentation, online help and manuals are increasingly distributed as HTML on CD or DVD, or installed locally together with the software. The HTML-based “WebHelp” generated by modern documentation tools like Help & Manual, RoboHelp and Doc-to-Help comes with powerful navigation, search and other features and displays in standard web browsers, making it very user-friendly and accessible.

The problem is that browsers are increasingly implementing security features that prevent WebHelp from running properly when it is opened from local drives or optical media without a web server. It used to be possible to get Internet Explorer to run JavaScript locally with the help of proprietary tags. However, the latest versions of modern browsers like Google Chrome are now making it all but impossible to use scripts that communicate between the frames or iFrames needed to display a scrolling table of contents, topics and other elements on the same page.

Help & Manual 2 Go is a mini web server that solves this problem: It consists of a single 1.7MB file that contains everything needed to serve a complete WebHelp system to the local browser – even when opened from optical media. The browser sees a normal web server and behaves accordingly, opening the WebHelp with full functionality. You just need to store the HM2GO.EXE file on the CD or install it along with your software and start it together with the WebHelp documentation.
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Help+Manual 6:

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 12.20.11 under ASP Member Companies, Development

Authoring Tool Now Publishes Manuals and Documentation Directly to iPad and iPhone

Documentation is always needed, whether you’re producing a software application, a gadget or a web portal. The authoring tool Help & Manual makes it easy to produce interactive help systems and user manuals. Version 6 adds some new output formats, including manuals that can be viewed directly on the Apple iPad and iPhone.

Help+Manual is an XML-based help authoring tool online help and user manuals. You enter your text and Help & Manual converts it into ready-to-use Windows help files, web-based interactive help, PDF manuals, eBooks and more. All the complex conversion work is handled by the program – no specialized skills are required.
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FastReport VCL RAD Edition Becomes Part of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 (Pulsar)

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.28.11 under ASP Member Companies, Development

Fast Reports, Inc. has announced that its key report generator, FastReport VCL RAD Edition, will be supplied as part of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 (Pulsar), a new version of a comprehensive application development suite.

FastReport VCL RAD Edition, a highly efficient report generator for Delphi, has been included into the new version of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 earlier codenamed as “Project Pulsar”. XE2 includes Delphi and C++ development environments with both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers and Delphi Prism for .NET.

Michael Philippenko, CEO of Fast Reports, Inc. says: “We always wanted that every Delphi user could utilize FastReport, that all programmers could use a straightforward and convenient tool for report generating. We are glad that Embarcadero management has rated our product so high”.

FastReport offers a good range of reporting features combined with productivity, flexibility and compactness. Becoming part of such a widely used development suite confirms the well-earned reputation of FastReport – it has already been chosen by twenty thousand developers, companies and institutions from all over the world, among them Hitachi Consumer Products, Nokia Products, Samsung Electronics, SIEMENS, Thomson Reuters, LUKoil, NetzWerkPlan, Sogeti High Tech and Gazprom. In 2004 FastReport was recognized as ´Best report generator´ and “Product of the year for Delphi´ by Delphi Magazine.
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IT Channel Firms See Strong Revenue Growth from Cloud Computing, CompTIA Study Reveals

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.27.11 under Business, Development

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.–Cloud computing is generating significant revenue streams for information technology (IT) channel companies, who plan to boost their cloud investments in the next year, according to research from CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the IT industry.

Among IT channel companies offering cloud computing solutions, 46 percent report deriving 50 percent or more of their annual revenue from cloud-related products and services in the last 12 months, according to the CompTIA survey. The large majority of these companies (85 percent) expect cloud sales to grow in the next 12 months.

“This clearly underscores the momentum cloud is having on the marketplace and the variety of opportunity avenues available to the channel,” said Carolyn April, director, industry analysis, CompTIA.
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The iMacros team releases Microsoft WebBrowser Control Replacement

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 08.25.11 under ASP Member Companies, Development

Heidelberg, Germany – Developers that are building .NET applications that interact with websites – e.g. for web automation, web testing, BPO process automation or web scraping – are often struggling to find a way to automate websites with the standard Microsoft WebBrowser control. Consider using the new iMacros Component for .NET with with built-in Ajax, Flash and Silverlight automation.

The iMacros Component is a .NET professional component that enables .NET developers to automate websites from their .NET applications (C#, VB.NET). A set of well-considered and clear API functions allows developers to automate form filling, data uploads and downloads, capturing screenshots, and extracting data from websites. The iMacros Component is the only web browser control that supports automating all Ajax functions (including HTML5), Flash and Silverlight.
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