The Web 2.0 service that ‘voice enables’ text-based Web content launched Talklets. The new service gives opportunities to the users to have text ‘read’ to them immediately in a range of natural voices, or converted to an MP3 file for consumption at another time, and on any compatible device."Vocus continues to address the unique and changing needs of the public relations marketplace and enables PR professionals to get their messages to stand out in today's media world," said Bill Wagner, chief marketing officer of Vocus, Inc. "With Summer '08, Vocus continues to advance its award-winning PR software with a stream of innovations that set the standard for the industry."
With Vocus' on-demand model, customers will seamlessly be transitioned to Summer '08 with no software to download or IT-involvement required. Existing Vocus customers will be upgraded to the new release by the end of the week.
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www.vocus.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/vocus/summer_08/prweb1061094.htm
Interview is the art of communication, and presents one of the most interesting ways of getting information but it should be mentioned that the tools for interviews have increased and the greatest role is played by the technology alongside the skills that the interviewer should have.
Adobe announced at its Q2 conference call that they already have a version of Flash working for the iPhone and running on emulation software.
`We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date~ - Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen said.
But will Apple allow Flash for the iPhone? Steve Jobs has claimed in the past that the mobile version of Flash - presumably what Adobe would be porting over to the iPhone - isn’t powerful enough for use on the nimble and elegant iPhone.
The push to break away from Flash reliance indicates that Apple isn't keen on seeing iPhone Flash development succeed.That leaves Adobe all alone to tackle the iPhone Flash dilemma.
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New research shows that U.S. retail sales of video games, consoles and game accessories hit $1.12 billion in May, a 37 percent rise over the same month last year. These parameters reported on Thursday by Market researcher NPD Group.
Ubisoft, an international developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products and game series such as Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and Prince of Persia, is also very interested in developing games for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Pauline Jacquey, Executive Producer of Ubisoft’s “Games for Everyone” said: “We don't want to keep it too narrow. At the minute, we’re only showing DS and Wii games, but we’ll be working on all other platforms. We’ll be making games not only on PC, PS3 and 360, but on iPhone and iPod touch as well.”
Ubisoft Entertainment S.A, an educational software and video game publishing and distribution company, was created by the five Guillemot brothers, in 1986. Later, Ubisoft created distribution subsidiaries in key world markets: United Kingdom, Germany and the U.S.
The Ubisoft group quickly established its leadership on Microsoft’s Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, successfully launching four titles, including Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™, and climbing to the top of the charts.
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http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/27507/INTERVIEW-softly-spoken
The ifbyphone released new iPhone application that will enable users to send recorded messages without using calling minutes.The ifbyphone telephone application platform, which will be available July 1, will deliver broadcasts either immediately or at a scheduled time set by the user. It will work with any iPhone running the v2 software. In addition, the Voice Broadcast feature will also work with the iPod touch.
Applications for Ifbyphone's Voice Broadcast technology include traveling managers who need to send a voice memo out to their staff while being away, or for parents who want to reach the entire family all at once.
Voice Broadcast will work by selecting a group of recipients from the iPhone’s Address Book, then entering the delivery date and time. The Voice Broadcast application lets you record a message, which is then sent at the appointed time. Because the message is being sent as data, it doesn’t impact the number of minutes you’ve selected in your calling plan.
The application will be free to download, though Ifbyphone requires an active subscription in order to use.
Ifbyphone is a hosted voice application and platform company with a simplified approach to the deployment of stand-alone and web-integrated voice services for small and medium sized businesses (SMB).
Ifbyphone makes it easier for customers to connect with you from online and off. All of Ifbyphone's applications are accessible via a click on a Web site, an inbound call to a toll free number, an outbound call or with the help of a programmable API.
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Interested in location and preservation of responsive documents to comply with court ordered discovery requests? Well, now it is easy with help of Technology Pathways, LLC that announced today the release of e.s.i.DiscoverTM, a new electronic-discovery search appliance. 
If you are a fond of Windows Vista, now you have opportunity to have it even on your iPhone. Vista Perfection 2.0, a vista based iPhone themes convert your iphone interfaces like Vista look and feel.Once installed you will have Vista wallpapers, sliders, sound effects, vista icon, and even start menu. Since it is a theme, it won’t break your iPhone apps.
The most impressive of Vista perfection is the booting and shutdown screen with a support background processing screen. Plus more, the WiFi icon, EDGE icon, and even the slide to unlock arrow have all been themed as well.
Vista Perfection iPhone theme features: Over 90 Icons; better and Sharper Dock Icons; Wifi Icon; Boot and Restore Images; Categories Icons; Vista Login/LogOff (Unlock/Lock) Sound Scheme; Badges and Sliders; Revamped TaskBar; LockScreen Wallpaper and much more.
VistaPerfection was created by Spec Works. To use it you will need jail broken iPhone, SSH access and SummerBoard. Go to ModMyIfone for complete instructions on how to download it.
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Would you like to have the extraordinary rotarly dialer iPhone? If you would, you really have a chance. The founders of Minnesota-based company CodeMorphic, Bill Heyman and Damon Allison has developed RetroPhone for those iPhone consumer, who would like to have rotary dialer phones.
They're also announcing Aloha, a photo-annotating program inspired in part by Comic Life. Both apps will be among the flood of iPhone programs hitting Apple's App Store in a few weeks.
Co-founders, Bill Heyman and Damon Allison, are experienced software developers and consultants, who have worked for the big names in software development: IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture, as well as many clients who have needed deep and sharp skills to solve their software requirements.
The mission of CodeMorphic is to seek the first name in native iPhone software development.
References:
http://yourtech.typepad.com/main/2008/05/want-a-rotary-i.html
Apple has revealed that over 200,000 iPhone developers have downloaded Software Development Kit (SDk) so far. Apple also announced that in mid-March, the iPhone SDK had been downloaded 100,000 times. According to Apple CFO Oppenheimer Apple is signing up more developers each week. Oppenheimer called the response to the SDK "tremendous" and said that interest in developing enterprise applications for the iPhone is also going well. More than 400 higher educations are now creating applications for the iPhone, and more than one-third of Fortune 500 companies are actively creating software for the iPhone as well.
Apple plans to deliver a free update to the software that runs the iPhone -called iPhone 2.0 in late June. That update will introduce the App Store, a new feature that will enable iPhone users to purchase, download and install third-party application software for the device. Apple also plans to release a similar update to the iPod touch delivered for a nominal fee that will enable iPod touch users to access the App Store as well.
Apple has sold 1.7 million iPhones in the quarter and is now selling phones in Austria and Ireland. Apple's COO, Tim Cook, reiterated to analysts who questioned him after Oppenheimer's preamble that Apple is on track to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of the year.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/133146/2008/04/iphonedevs.html
A Chinese developer has released HWPen - a handwriting recognition app for the jailbroken iPhone. HWPen works in both Chinese and Latin alphabets. The screen cap above shows the ‘writing area’ for HWPen. You need to enter letters within the left half of the work area, and numbers on the right. Because it integrates with the native text input of the iPhone, HWPen is available anywhere you would normally use the keyboard. It even works with the iPhone's auto-complete function, so you can start to type a word and hit the spacebar to pick spelling suggestions.
The software application can be downloaded from Installer.app. Then one can go to “Sources,” click on “Edit” and “Add” a new source: http://iphonecake.com/src/new
Refresh the sources to locate HWPen in the iPhoneCake packages. Install the software and restart your iPhone. After you install you will see a writing area making the standard keyboard vanish. The application is currently in beta and is also available for the Palm OS platform.
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http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/iphone-gets-handwriting
-recognition-video-
AOL has officially launched the beta version of AOL Mobile Search service created specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch.AOL Mobile Search for the iPhone was designed specifically for the Apple iPhone's mobile Safari browser. Mobile Search has a traditional Web search engine, but also has features specially tailored to search the content of various AOL properties, including Moviefone, MapQuest, AOL CityGuide and others.
Mozilla invited a handful of technology bloggers to come down to its office for a roundtable discussion. After long discussions about different things connected with Mozilla Firefox it became clear that no firefox would be available for iPhone.
Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer said that Apple’s software requirements for the device are too restrictive, and as such, they will not be making Firefox for iPhone, at least in the near future.
According to John Lilly - "Apple has not written a license which allows Firefox to run on the iPhone."
Parallels that is a server virtualization firm, presented fully integrated CRM - customer relationship management system automation data center solution, which now supports Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The main advantage of the innovation is to enhance sales, marketing, and customer service processes. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 enhances businesses, the capability to create and maintain a clear view of customers from first contact through purchase and post-sales.
According to the NewNow press releases, Director of Worldwide Hosting at Microsoft Corp, John Zanni added: ''With more and more customers adopting on-demand CRM solutions, there’s no question this is among the fastest-growing market segments. Microsoft Dynamics CRM has multi-tenant support and a user-friendly interface, making it an appealing option for service providers to offer CRM as a service, in conjunction with offerings such as hosted Microsoft Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services. Parallels Automation provides comprehensive back-office support that enables service providers to deliver Dynamics CRM applications to attract new customers and upgrade existing hosted Exchange customers.''
Parallels Automation provides opportunity to:
Efficiently manage their infrastructure by providing online ordering
Domain registration
Service plan management
Client self management
Server management
Workflow
Billing
Payments
References:
www.parallels.com/automation/modules/crm.
http://www.parallels.com/.
An innovative, international technology company that develops and manufactures cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services, Linovo presents new IdeaPad notebooks to those who are no more interested in ordinary products and search for something special.
Lenovo promises comfort while opening the notebook and represents three varieties of the product. Choice of product type mostly depends on the demands of the clients and the consumers. IdeaPad is of three styles. These are: IdeaPad Y510, Mobile versatility that identifies 4 mains specific features. IdeaPad Y510 has an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera and Lenovo's VeriFace™ face recognition software. This is the unique feature that can make face your password and help control access to the notebook by the time the owner of the notebook sits at it. Despite the fact that the IdeaPad Y510 makes the user feel special the Dolby® Home Theater™ premium audio system attracts attention of the segment that is fond of theater-style sound. The product creates excellent entertainment environment with the help of Multimedia Control Center.
The other style is IdeaPad Y710, Performance entertainment. This style is focused on the segment who is interested in advanced processing and graphics options for multimedia and gaming. Among the exceptional features of IdeaPad Y710 are 17’’ displays with frameless screen, VeriFace face recognition security, like the IdeaPad Y510 has, Dolby® Home Theater™ audio, and the different feature from the IdeaPad Y510 is that it has Secondary hard drive (optional).
The third alternative of the IdeaPad that is coming soon is IdeaPad U110 Ultraportable style. And what are the specifics of this style? Well, as the official site of LENOVO claims the IdeaPad U110 is extremely thin and light for on-the-go people and who can not live without the one and who like to carry the best. Again as the previous two style Ideapads IdeaPad U110 has display with frameless screen but it is 11.1’’, the same VeriFace face recognition security, and Dolby® Home Theater™ audio, though Solid state hard drive (optional). Corporate Telecommunications presents the service that gives the users opportunity to diagnose their headsets: who is using which headset, which ones need repairing, which are out of warranty, which ones need new voice tubes or need upgrading. These are achieved by unique identity codes and specially-designed software that monitor the lifecycle of each headset.
Access to information does not require separate software. It is automatically stored on a secure web-based database. All changes are updated directly onto the system.
Chan Bansal, business development manager at Corporate Telecommunications said: "Trying to keep track of headsets using an Excel spreadsheet or databases might work in the short term, but manually inputting information on scores of headsets is a time consuming task. And if the administrator is on holiday, sick or leaves the company, it doesn't take long for the spreadsheet to become out of date. Not to mention the security risks of losing potentially sensitive information."
A comprehensive audit trail for each headset, with multiple reporting options is provided by Accucheck software. A history of each change in use or status is created for both headsets and agents.
Bansal announces that "Developments in business culture, such as health and safety laws, regulatory changes and tight cost controls, mean sketchy asset records are not acceptable. Not managing your assets effectively, wastes time, costs money and risks falling foul of regulations."
According to PC WORLD the spam message tricking the users interested in Hillary Clinton’s campaign speech appeared on Thursday. Doug Bowers, Symantec’s senior director of anti-abuse engineering, says that “It is the first time we have seen the spam like this targeting Hillary Clinton.”
