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Twitter plans new features for corporate users Micro-blogging service Twitter will be introducing premium features for business users by year-end, co-founder Biz Stone said Tuesday. While Stone and his fellow co-founder, Evan Williams, have long floated the idea of commercial accounts, “we’re only just now entering a phase in Twitter’s lifetime where we’re able to develop [...]

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Adobe unveiled the Flash 10.1 player, which will enable all Adobe Flash content to be accessible on smartphones. This means you’ll be able to play Flash-based games and view Flash-based videos and Web sites. And yes, that includes Hulu. iPhone owners, however, aren’t so lucky. Adobe said that they are still working to make the Flash [...]

Top 10 Applications Rank Previous Game Price Developer 1 (1) Advanced Task Manager $0.99 Arron La 2 (3) My Backup Pro $4.99 RerWare 3 (4) Snap Photo Pro $0.99 Bratag 4 (6) Documents to Go $29.99 DataViz 5 (2) Bluex $2.91 Xela AndroSoft 6 (5) Weather Widgets $1.49 Android Apps 7 (9) PicSay Pro $2.85 [...]

Google’s Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP. Both companies have built prototype applications using Wave, which was released in preview mode for about 100,000 users on Wednesday after being available only to developers. Wave combines a range of technologies such as document sharing and [...]

Google Docs API tests a new feature that lets you perform OCR (optical character recognition) on an image. There’s a live demo that illustrates this feature: you can upload a high-resolution JPG, GIF, or PNG image that has less than 10 MB and Google Docs extracts the text and converts it into a new document. Google mentions that [...]

Most Popularly Used Firefox delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive. Chose from over a thousand useful add-ons to personalize and make it your own. Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player. Miro gives you access to more free HD content than any other video player. Pidgin – [...]

Google Layout 2.1

Posted: September 24, 2009 in Google, Technology Updates
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Now that SketchUp 7.1 is out the door, I thought it’d be a good idea to tell you a little bit more about its 2D, Pro counterpart: LayOut 2.1 is more powerful than ever. We added features that should let you use SketchUp Pro for an even larger chunk of your workflow: Dimensions! LayOut isn’t just for [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software available for Windows and Mac, providing automated and intelligent photo-editing technology across both platforms. With the newest version of the No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Adobe continues to make cutting-edge innovation accessible to users who want powerful yet easy-to-use tools to tell compelling stories with their photos. Adobe Photoshop Elements [...]

Facebook used Nokia World, the mobile conference taking place now in Stuttgart Germany, to make a major announcement about the expansion of their Facebook Connect platform. According to Henri Moissinac, head of Facebook’s mobile operations, the company is launching a new program called “Facebook Connect For Mobile Web.” The Connect platform, which originally launched in 2008, [...]