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Turn on your Rudolph mp3, pour yourself a low-fat cocoa and curl up beside the faux fireplace with your cellphone: the winter holidays have entered the 21st century and are playing out before our eyes on social media. HootSuite has gotten into the holiday spirit with a dedicated Holiday social media command center, gathering together all the treats Twitter and Facebook have to offer this December. Anyone in the retail industry knows what a valuable time of year this is, but also how hectic and even frustrating it can be for customers. Understanding the real-time sentiment of seasonal shoppers will give businesses insight on how their clients are feeling about stores, products and the shopping experience in general. Read the rest of this entry »

Social media management system HootSuite has expanded its App Directory and its appeal for the second time in just over a month. This, the tenth wave of #SocialApps, includes some of the most popular content creation tools on the web: Vimeo, self-hosted WordPress.org blogs, Via.Me, Reachli, and Scripted. Among HootSuite’s over 5 million international users are countless artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other creative spirits who, along with all highly engaged users, will be able to draw significant value from these new apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Toon Boom Animation Inc., a 2012 and 2005 Primetime Emmy^® Engineering Award recipient, announced today that The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, will grant the Toon Boom Pipeline the Ub Iwerks Award at the upcoming 40th Annual Annie Awards™. As part of the juried awards category, the Ub Iwerks Award recognizes the technical advancements that make a significant impact on the art or industry of animation. Read the rest of this entry »

Investintech is proud to announce the release the Able2Extract 8 PDF Converter.  Able2Extract is a PDF conversion software program that allows users to convert PDF documents to popular Microsoft Office formats and more. This latest version is a major milestone for our flagship product. It is the first PDF converter on the market compatible on all three Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.  Investintech’s developers have worked hard and have successfully rebuilt Able2Extract from the ground up to run on all 3 systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Eyeball Networks has announced the release of AnyFirewall™ Engine v9.5 for Windows 8 and Windows RT. AnyFirewall Engine v9.5 also provides support for devices running Android, iOS, Linux, and OS X operating systems. It can be deployed with Eyeball’s AnyFirewall Server and AnyConnect Gateway for a complete end-to-end connectivity solution providing guaranteed firewall and NAT traversal, or be combined with other third-party, standards-based products. Read the rest of this entry »

Angoss Software Corporation has announced KnowledgeSEEKER® and KnowledgeSTUDIO® Version 8.5, which includes advances across the complete Angoss predictive analytics software suite, as well as the introduction of a new Cloud deployment option. The new features enhance support for R, text analytics classification, credit application scorecards and data analyst productivity. Read the rest of this entry »

Anti-malware company Lavasoft has announced new major capabilities within its award-winning Ad-Aware anti-malware software. Ad-Aware 10.4 is designed to address the growing trend and complexities of users running multiple security solutions in an effort to enhance their level of protection. This newest edition now allows users to install Ad-Aware as an additional protection measure further adding to users’ line of defense and level of security. When a running security solution is detected, Ad-Aware enhances protection by defaulting to the new On-Demand mode, adding a second layer of protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Interactive 3D simulation software and solutions provider for maintenance training and support applications NGRAIN® has debuted NGRAIN® Producer®, the personal learning edition, which is available free-of-charge. Producer allows anyone, with or without 3D experience, to rapidly create interactive 3D animations and real-time practice tasks.  Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software provider OpenText™ has announced a compelling and complimentary offer to Autonomy customers interested in protecting their software investments. Existing Autonomy customers now have the option to trade in valid Autonomy licenses for OpenText licenses. Read the rest of this entry »

Web acceleration provider Strangeloop Networks has announced that its advanced acceleration technology is now available as an add-on service for customers using Amazon CloudFront, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Strangeloop Site Optimizer is a service, available immediately to Amazon CloudFront customers, which applies front-end optimization (FEO) techniques automatically across websites, resulting in pages that load up to twice as fast for desktop and mobile browsers. Read the rest of this entry »