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BMS Business Music System 4.08 (Windows)

The BMS Business Music System is an application for the automation of business background music and in-store announcements. Features include automatic music selection and mixing according to set rotation rates and day-part scheduling, auto-playing optional recorded announcements at set times or at specified intervals in addition to manual user-play announcements....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Announcement, Music, NCH Software, BMS Business Music System

Software downloads 2009-10-09

Apple's WWDC announcements vs. the online rumor machine

The pitch of iPhone rumors keeps climbing towards a teeth-grinding, mind-numbing howl in advance of Monday's announcements at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Will the likely actual announcements and demonstrations â€" of an iPhone software platform that really can be used for the enterprise, of an improved Mac...

Tags: Apple iPhone, WWDC, Apple Inc., Announcement, Apple Mac OS X, Smb/Sme, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-06-07

The month ahead: What will Apple unveil at WWDC?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz preview the tech developments anticipated for June: a potential new mobile device at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the latest on Steve Jobs, and the first JavaOne since Oracle scooped up Sun. Diaz also discusses the significance of a legal ruling that...

Tags: WWDC, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Apple, Worldwide Developers Conference, announcement, hardware, Steve Jobs, JavaOne, Sun, Oracle, RealDVD, RealPlayer, Sumi Das

Videos 2009-05-27

SAP BusinessSuite 7 announcement

SAP BusinessSuite 7 announcement If you follow the link below and are Twittering using #bs7 then your Tweets will show up. Click Here The event starts at 10am EST. by Dennis Howlett

Tags: SAP AG, Announcement, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint

Moments before Apple VP Philip Schiller stepped on stage at Macworld 2009, there seemed to be a buzz of anticipation in the auditorium at Moscone West in San Francisco. How would Schiller - filling the shoes of the ailing Steve Jobs - perform in this venue? Would he make a...

Tags: Applause, Apple Inc., Announcement, Macworld, Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-06

UK Speaking Clock 10.5.0 (Windows)

UK Speaking Clock is a multilingual, multi interface speaking clock. Using over 50 digital and analogue skins along with two MsAgent characters, up to 1000 appointments or reminders, unlimited stopwatches and countdown timers, time announcement on demand or at a user defined interval. You can choose from many languages to...

Tags: Announcement, UK Software, UK Speaking Clock, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-24

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Larynx 1.0.0.1 (Windows)

Larynx is a speech server and announcement system for Windows. Larynx accepts announcements via email or the command line, and audibly announces them and displays them on screen. Originally designed for alert announcements within a Network Operation Center NOC, Larynx has also proven itself to be an effective...

Tags: Announcement, NOCturnalWare, Larynx, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-07-07

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing

It is not at all uncommon for competitors to arrange a briefing prior to a large, important announcement to present their marketing spin on the announcement. They are, of course, hoping to change the viewpoint of the analyst, journalist, consulting, etc. to their liking and, in the end, produce a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Announcement, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Big day for mobile rich Internet applications

Two pretty big announcements in the "mobile RIA" space that don't have much to do with each other, but show that the mobile side of the RIA fence is starting to get just as much attention as the desktop and browser sides. The first announcement is that Google Gears will...

Tags: Mobile Version, Google Gears, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Internet Application, Announcement, Mobile Announcement, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-04

The open source link of AMD and Nvidia

About a week ago I got an e-mail asking me to comment on rumors that Nvidia might buy AMD. A research company had floated this trial balloon, hoping it might ease out AMD CEO Hector Ruiz. Yesterday, however, came some news relevant to this...

Tags: Open Source, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Announcement, Chip, Moore, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Microsoft, Citrix virtual machine software announcements

Both Microsoft and Citrix/XenSource made important announcements January 21. Since they've been widely reported, I'd rather not cite the details. I'd rather consider what this really means. Microsoft Microsoft made a sweeping announcement that indicated that they changing their licensing rules for the Windows operating system and making...

Tags: Software, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Announcement, Virtual Machine, XenSource Inc., Data Management, Productivity, Open Source, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Flash H.264 support and new pricing/availability for Flash Media Server 3

There are a couple of news announcements tonight by Adobe that are worth highlighting. They revolve around the video/media side of the Flash Player, something that Silverlight 1.0 focuses on and which has become ever more important in recent months as the explosion of rich media continues to reverberate through...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Media Server, Competition, Macromedia Flash Player, Video, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, H.264, Announcement, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Can new Solaris beat Linux in server market?

The new Solaris, 10 8/07, is here. The announcement coincides with the company's OpenSolaris Day event in Boston. (The chart showing increased chatter concerning OpenSolaris comes from the blog of Jim Grisanzio, senior project manager for OpenSolaris engineering.) The new build has a lot...

Tags: Linux, OpenSolaris, Server, Announcement, Sun Solaris, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Apple 'Product Presentation' planned for Tuesday

Engadget was invited by Apple to a "product presentation for Mac" at Apple Town Hall in Cupertino on Tuesday, 7 August, 2007. Gee, I wonder what that could be for? Could it be to announce the Mac that belongs to this keyboard?

Tags: Keyboard, iMac, Hardware, Apple, Announcement

Blog posts 2007-07-31

MacBook Pro 17-inch HD starting to arrive

Lost in the excitement of the new MacBook Pro announcement on 5 June was a unique new feature never available in an Apple notebook before. No, I'm not talking about the new LED-backlit displays, I'm talking about the new 1920 x 1200 displays that are available as an option in...

Tags: Announcement, Displays, Hardware, MacBook Pro

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Time2Play 1.5 (Windows)

A lightweight, easy-to-use audio scheduler that can be used to play music and announcements over speakers or a Public Announcement system. Features expiring announcements, 'ding-dong' warning sound played before announcements, music fade-in and fade-out. Support for most popular media file formats (MP3, WMV, and WAV). Version 1.5 bug fix release...

Tags: Media, Microsoft Windows, Announcement, Music, Alexis Christoforides, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-06-11

Apple announces new MacBook Pros

As expected, Apple today announced new MacBook Pros â€" less than a week before the start of their Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC which kicks off in San Francisco next week. The new MacBook Pros feature faster 2.2 and 2.4GHz processors presumably based on Intel's new Santa Rosa chip architecture. The...

Tags: MacBook Pro, Hardware, Announcement

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Apple confirms iPhone release date: June 29

Apple has released three new iPhone television commercials and they all close with a tag line "Coming June 29." The three new TV spots, "Never Been an iPod," "How to," and "Calamari" are available in four sizes (small, medium, large and HD) on the Apple Web site. It looks like...

Tags: iPhone, Announcement

Blog posts 2007-06-03

Apple announces upgraded Apple TV; YouTube Support

Apple yesterday released upgraded Apple TVs with spacious 160GB hard drives. The new beefier Apple TVs retail for US$399 versus US$299 for the anemic 40GB versions - a 300 percent increase of capacity for 33 percent more money.Buyers of the original Apple TV are probably felling pretty burned right now...

Tags: Announcement, Apple TV, Hard drive, Hardware, Music, Video

Blog posts 2007-05-31