Steve Jobs defended Apple's decision to exclude Adobe's Flash player from many of its mobile devices, refuting the software maker's claim it was a business decision to protect Apple's App Store" />
The ad on Craigslist was from an Oakton company called Zirdland.com. Zirdland claims it has developed a software system that can electronically analyze the quality and commercial viability of a work of fiction and prompt changes that will make it better.
The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.
Monday, February 16, Adobe unveiled its new Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK (Software Development Kit), which will enable companies to more easily distribute and display ebooks in PDF and EPUB formats on mobile phones, ereaders and other mobile devices.
"We know digital book customers want a broad selection of content, a choice of reading platforms and devices and the option to get their eBook from their favorite retailer, local public library or directly from the publisher," said Paul Weiskopf, senior vice president, Corporate Development at Adobe. "Adobe Content Server 4 enables the publishing industry to meet all these needs for eBook customers while, at the same time, protecting valuable copyrights."
Macmillan is introducing software that will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks without consulting the original authors or publisher.
Earlier this week, Sony announced that it will be bringing out a new eBook Reader that will offer built in 3G wireless and the ability to buy books on-demand --
aking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.
the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it.
Search engines and news aggregators contend that their brief article citations fall under the legal principle of fair use.
Each article — and, in the future, each picture and video — would go out with what The A.P. called a digital “wrapper,” data invisible to the ordinary consumer that is intended, among other things, to maximize its ranking in Internet searches. The software would also send signals back to The A.P., letting it track use of the article across the Web.
But the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
This freedom is at risk in the cloud, where the vendor of a platform has much more control over whether and how to let others write new software.
And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.