Software Industry Announcements and News
TURN OFF YOUR PC QUICKLY AND SAFELY
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.31.08 under System Utilities
Toy Cat Soft announces the release of version 1.0 of Power Off Key, a tool to instantly turn off your computer. With this utility, it won’t take more than a key press to safely shutdown PC.
While exponentially developing digital world’s moves towards super-powerful home computers and ultra-fast wireless nets, most users keep losing their efficiency stumbling upon design flaws in the most basic aspects. One of those minor things is the time taken to turn off the computer. Surely, you wondered why it’s necessary to click as many as three times in different spots of the screen to turn off your PC while you just want to get over with it as quickly as possible. At first, such a trifle is hardly noticeable but later it may become quite irritating and distracting. Would you like to skip the routine and accomplish this simple task with a press of a single key? Read the rest of this entry…
Password Protect Manager
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.30.08 under Security & Privacy
3L Soft Group announces v. 1.0 of Password Protect Manager
3L Soft Group has announced the immediate availability of Password Protect Manager v. 1.0, an easy-to-use password protecting application for Windows OS. Password Protect Manager will manage all passwords on your computer in a way, which is most convenient to any user, by storing and protecting passwords all in one secured place. With the same ease, the program also enables the user to manage the file that stores the encrypted passwords from any data carrier and on any computer. Password Protect Manager supports Windows Vista.
Password protection is a matter of paramount importance nowadays. Whatever you do: whether you are a devoted web surfer, a regular Internet shopper, a businessman who’s well-grounded in IT, or just the user who cannot imagine his life without everyday chatting online, you must remember that all your sensitive information, your credit card digits and your identity is under threat! By using the Internet as a scamming tool, hackers have made a great variety of ways how to steal your sensitive information and exploit it to get easy money. They can pull your financial information from a hacked e-mail account, extract it from your chats, use a password generator to get into your account, send in viruses and Trojans to make the process easier, or just simply hack into your bank account and wipe it dry, they always find the way. Read the rest of this entry…
TEST QUALITY OF VOCAL CODER AUTOMATICALLY
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.29.08 under Development
HELSINKI, Finland - March 25, 2008 - Sevana Oy today announces the immediate availability of Vocoders Quality Analyzer 2.1, a new tool that enables speech codec developers to automatically check voice quality that is returned after processing in a voice coder. Featuring a unique speech model and algorithms, based on patents RU 61924 and RU 2312405, the product is one of the easiest and fastest ways to check a vocoder’s quality.
Typically, quality of voice coders is measured according to the Mean Opinion Score (MOS), which provides a numerical indication of the perceived quality of received media after compression. The MOS is expressed as a single number in the range 1 to 5, where 1 is lowest perceived quality, and 5 is the highest perceived quality. Obtaining MOS estimations is time-consuming and expensive as it requires hiring experts to make estimations. When a voice coding system is under development, or the developer has to test and compare a couple of audio systems, it’s very important to have a possibility for a quick check. Vocoders Quality Analyzer provides precise estimations automatically without the need for overpaid experts. According to the internal tests, the product provides results quite close to what CISCO Systems provide as MOS values for different codecs, but much faster. Read the rest of this entry…
Deploy PDF Creation with ReaSoft Printer 3.5
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.28.08 under Business
ReaSoft Development today launches the immediate availability of ReaSoft Printer 3.5 that is aimed to convert to PDF file any application that has a printing functionality. The latest release contains embedded fonts, applying stationery, file compression, PDF file protection, system logs support. PDF Printer unveils a truly comprehensive set of capabilities for working with PDF documents within a sleek, modern user experience.
Millions of users have already established PDF as a trusted format that enables documents to flow between companies and across the gap between digital and print. With ReaSoft PDF Printer 3.5, ReaSoft Development is enabling professionals in a wide variety, such as marketing, manufacturing, finance, IT, legal, engineering use PDF Printer to communicate and collaborate within the context of their work. Business analysts can easily collect and more securely route sensitive financial data; architects can enable clients and contractors to review and markup blueprints and proposals; and creative professionals can efficiently publish to print with the highest fidelity and reliability. Read the rest of this entry…
ValueClick to Pay $2.9 Million to Settle FTC Charges
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.27.08 under Government News
Online advertiser ValueClick, Inc., will pay a record $2.9 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its advertising claims and e-mails were deceptive and violated federal law. The agency also charged that ValueClick and its subsidiaries, Hi-Speed Media and E-Babylon failed to secure consumers’ sensitive financial information, despite their claims to do so. The settlement, filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, requires ValueClick to clearly and conspicuously disclose the costs and obligations consumers must incur to receive the products it touts as “free” and bars future violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. The settlement also bars deceptive claims about the security of the consumer information collected at its e-commerce Web sites.
According to the FTC, ValueClick subsidiary Hi-Speed Media used deceptive e-mails, banner ads, and pop-ups to drive consumers to its Web sites. The e-mails and online ads claimed that consumers were eligible for “free” gifts, including laptops, iPods, and high-value gift cards, and included come-ons such as “Free PS3 for survey,” and “CONGRATULATIONS! Select your FREE Plasma TV.” The FTC alleged that consumers lured to ValueClick’s Web sites by these promises were led through a maze of expensive and burdensome third-party offers – including car loans and satellite television subscriptions – which they were required to “participate in” at their own expense, in order to receive the promised “free” merchandise. The FTC charged that ValueClick’s use of deceptively labeled e-mail offering free gifts and its failure to disclose that consumers must expend substantial sums of money to obtain the promised “free” merchandise violates the CAN-SPAM Act and the FTC Act. Read the rest of this entry…
SharewareRadio interviews Ben Weintraub about Educational Software
[ No Comments ] Posted on 03.27.08 under ASP Member Companies, Web Sites
The SharewareRadio.com interview for March 27th is with Ben Weintraub of Merit Software.
http://sharewareradio.com/week080327.htm
In the News This Week:
Yahoo joins Google’s OpenSocial platform
Windows Vista SP1 complaints draw free support from Microsoft
Apple ‘undermines the Internet,’ charges Mozilla CEO
Oregon man loses belongings via Craigslist
Is WiMAX no good?
The Kiss My Butt award of the week goes to AT&T.
This weeks Interview
This week’s guest is Ben Weintraub. Ben is CEO of Merit Software.
http://meritsoftware.com/
This interview was held in Denver at SIC 2007.
http://www.sic.org/