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Paragon Software Group Releases InterKey 3.0
Fast and Accurate Text Input by Hand or Stylus in 36 Languages and 60 National Layouts
Paragon Software Group released InterKey 3.0 – a multilingual text input application for Windows Mobile Pocket PC.
Due to large and fingertip-friendly keys, text input by hand or stylus becomes effortless, and typing foreign languages on a standard keyboard is fast and accurate. The program is available in two editions – InterKey 3.0 Standard and InterKey 3.0 Professional with word autocompletion function.
With the key zooming function, users no longer have to closely follow what they are typing. The selected key appears larger on the screen and the character is only typed when the user releases his finger. If the wrong key is touched and an incorrect letter is zoomed on the screen, all the user has to do is slide his finger or stylus to the proper key and keep on typing.
The InterKey 3.0 Standard Edition is available for 24,95 USD and the InterKey 3.0 Professional edition – for 34,95 USD via download from Smart Handheld Devices Division website.
Supported languages: Albanian, Belarusian, Belgian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian Multilingual, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin American, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish, Ukrainian, US Dvorak.
Paragon Software Group (PSG) is a technology solutions provider to the enterprise, SMB and consumer markets, worldwide. Founded in 1994, Paragon Software Group actively markets and sells in more than 150 countries and has offices in the USA, Germany, Japan and Russia. PSG consists of two divisions, System Technology, offering solutions for storage management and data safety, and Smart Handheld Devices Division (SHDD & Epocware), offering software for diverse classes of smart handheld devices (Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Palm OS and mobile phones) and desktop PCs, including multilingual on-line handwriting recognition, localization, business and game applications and multilingual dictionaries.
July 2008
September ’07 – Points of view
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the following statement in regard to the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg's decision in the matter of the European Commission vs. Microsoft:
"Today's decision by the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg in the Microsoft matter is great news for innovation and consumer choice, both in Europe and around the world. The Court has confirmed that competition law prevents a monopolist from simply using its control of the market to lock in customers and stifle new competitors," said Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO of Red Hat.
"In our business, interoperability information is critically important and cannot simply be withheld to exclude all competition. Given Red Hat's firm belief that competition, not questionable patent and trade secret claims, drives innovation and creates greater consumer value, we were pleased with the overall decision and look forward to examining the decision in greater detail. Red Hat would like to congratulate the European Commission, and particularly Commissioner Neelie Kroes and her services, for their persistence and courage in bringing this matter to a successful result."
Source: Red Hat (17-9-07)
September ’07 – Microdisplay projection sets
The Micro Device Display Consortium (MDDPC), a membership-based industry group made up of leading companies aimed at expanding the microdisplay television market, today announced 10 new members, including Colorlink, Inc., Fourth Dimension Displays Limited, and Fujinon Corporation. MDDPC also announced that it has launched a new web site to help retailers and consumers better understand the advantages of microdisplay projection televisions. The web site contains the latest news and product information on microdisplay projection products to help consumers make more informed decisions about the increasing number of HDTVs available on the market today.
"Confusion about all the different HDTV technologies still permeates the market, especially when it comes to microdisplay technology," said Shintaro Nakagaki, MDDPC Representative Director and associate director of Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC). "Even though microdisplay projection TVs still produce one of the best television pictures for the money, the varying terminology for this TV category makes it difficult for the consumer to recognize those benefits as belonging to the MDDP category. Our new web site was designed to help clear up some of the confusion and provide consumers and retailers with the tools and knowledge to make more informed purchasing decisions."
The site includes detailed descriptions and visual illustrations of how various microdisplay technologies such as DLP, LCOS and HTPS work in projection television systems. It also highlights their advantages (low cost, high quality large screen images, high brightness and wide viewing angle, low power and energy consumption, long product life, and cooler operating temperature), and how they contribute to a reduction in CO2 emissions from total energy for manufacturing, and produce less waste from disposal of set, parts and materials.
The MDDP Consortium, whose mission is to broadly promote the advantages and superiority of Micro Device Display technology to consumers, retailers, experts, and the mass media, has grown its member base from six member companies to sixteen since being founded in 2006.
The MDDP Consortium's founding members include Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd., Seiko Epson Corporation, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC), and Royal Philips Electronics. Other member companies include Luminus Devices, 3M Company, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SCRAM Technologies, Inc, Gemidis NV, Sekinos Co., Ltd., Wavien, Inc., and Young Optics, Inc.
Micro Device Display (MDDP) use micro Display devices such as high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) LCD, digital light processing (DLP) and liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) devices to deliver a picture with superior brightness, fine resolution and wide viewing angle, outperforming conventional CRT projection televisions by a wide margin. The sets first began to appear in markets in significant numbers around 2004. MDDP are significantly lighter than CRT projection televisions and offer superior design. The sets offer high cost performance based on their high image quality and large screens. MDDP have gained a particularly strong following in North America. According to Techno Systems Research Co., Ltd., an estimated 4.1 million sets have been sold to date worldwide, while global demand for MDDP is forecasted at 3.5 million units in fiscal 2006. •
Source: Micro Device Display Consortium (26-9-07)
Skype announced unlimited (*) calling today to over a third of the world´s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.
The new subscriptions have no long-term contract. You can make calls whenever you want - at any time of the day, on any day of the week. From today, you can choose from three types of subscription - from unlimited calls to landlines in the country of your choice through to landlines in 34 destination countries worldwide.
Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at Skype said, "This move is a natural step for Skype. Skype was founded on the principle of making free voice and video calls available to people all around the world. And now we´re making it even easier for the Skype community to call their friends and family who are not yet on Skype. Our subscriptions give people an easy, hassle-free choice for how and when they want to catch up with their loved ones."
Oberg continued, "For example if you live in London, for just EUR 2.95 a month, you can call your grandmother in Poland, whenever you like, talk for up to six hours at a time, and not worry about how much it´s costing you. Your grandmother doesn´t need to understand the internet. You just use your Skype subscription to make the call and she just picks up the phone. And if you have friends and family spread over the world, you can reach them all for as little as EUR 8.95 a month. When you combine the free features Skype is known for - from instant messaging to conference calling to video calls - with our subscriptions, it´s hard to find a better alternative."
309 million people all over the world use Skype in all sorts of ways - whether it´s a weekly video call with a sister in Paris or sending an instant message to a college friend in Tokyo or calling a business contact overseas.
To purchase a subscription, simply go to skype.com/go/subscriptions for more details. If you purchase one of the new subscriptions for a 3-month or 12-month period before June 1st 2008, you will receive a further 33% discount.
The user will only pay one flat monthly fee. There are no hidden costs or additional connection charges.
In parallel with their new subscriptions, Skype continues to offer its Pay As You Go option. Put as little as EUR 10 on your Skype account and you can call whoever you want, whenever you want at very low rates.
Source: Skype (21-4-08)
(*) Unlimited calling: all calls are subject to Skype´s fair usage policy which is set at 10,000 minutes per month (which equates to more than 5 hours of calling per day). Calls to premium, non-geographic and other special numbers are excluded.
Millions of people every day use Skype software to communicate with others through free voice and video calls, as well as instant messages. Skype´s 309 million registered users have made more than 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls. Many people also use SkypeOut or one of our global subscriptions to save money when calling landlines and mobiles at home and abroad. No longer bound to the computer, Skype conversations can also be had on a broad range of cordless handsets, mobile devices and other Skype Certified hardware. We´ve made it easy for Skype users to list and recommend their favourite local businesses to the rest of the community with SkypeFind. And even when you´re fluent in Skype, there is always more to discover: hundreds of third-party developers have created software plug-ins that make Skype even more useful. All of this makes Skype the leading global internet communications company.
August ’07 – MainConcept + Adobe
MainConcept AG announced that Adobe Systems has agreed to license its H.264 and AAC technology for integration into its flagship Adobe Flash Player software, which reaches 98% of all Internet enabled PCs worldwide. Adobe has licensed the x86, PowerPC and ARM versions of MainConcept's H.264 and AAC decoders. A public beta of the latest Adobe Flash Player 9, code named Moviestar, leveraging MainConcept technology is now available from Adobe Labs.
"The H.264 and AAC formats are key strategic additions to Adobe Flash Player," said Emmy Huang, group product manager at Adobe. "MainConcept provides high-quality decoders with small footprints, and their codecs were quick to integrate and easy to port to the multiple platforms supported by Adobe Flash Player. Choosing MainConcept's codecs allows us to deliver important new capabilities for Flash-based video developers."
"At MainConcept, we are deeply honoured that our technology was chosen to be an integral part of Adobe's latest Flash Player software," said Dirk Peters, CEO of MainConcept LLC. "We expect that the over 750 million PCs and devices worldwide, which are able to view Adobe Flash content, will benefit from MainConcept's advanced compression technology. We look forward to being a key strategic supplier to Adobe's Flash efforts."
MainConcept codecs are uniquely designed for mass market audio/video encoding and decoding solutions. The codecs are designed to take advantage of the advanced performance of cutting edge new computer systems, such as new multi-core systems, while also providing an optimal experience for users without newer systems. The codecs support international audio and video standards while being as tolerant as possible of broken, non-standard and corrupt files.
MainConcept makes it easy for software developers to integrate codecs into their solutions by providing comprehensive Software Development Kits with the necessary tools, documentation and developer support to quickly release high quality solutions on multiple platforms.
MainConcept is the worldwide leading provider of high-quality codec technology for the broadcast, film, consumer electronics, computer software, medical imaging and security markets. MainConcept solutions are optimized for various platforms including PCs, set-top boxes, portable media players and mobile phones. MainConcept supports the most popular industry standards such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, H.264/AVC, VC-1, DV, DVCPRO, DVCPro HD, JPEG2000, AAC, HE-AAC and AC3.
MainConcept is headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries in the USA, Russia, and Japan. The company serves the Asia-Pacific region through key distribution partners in China, Korea, and Taiwan. MainConcept customers include some of the most respected international companies including Adobe, Leitch/Harris, Microsoft, mobiTV, Sonic Solutions, Sony, and Panasonic.
Long term partnerships are a natural result of MainConcept's business relationships. To support its global base of customers and partners, MainConcept launched a dedicated "Codec-By" logo program in 2007 that industry partners can join to demonstrate that they deliver market leading solutions based on MainConcept's high-quality codecs. •
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