Year: 2008

O’Reilly Media has opened the Call for Participation for the 2009
MySQL Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 20-23, in Santa Clara,
California.

Conference program chair Colin Charles and the program committee
invite proposals for conference sessions, panel discussions, and
tutorials. More than 2,000 attendees are expected to participate in
over 120 sessions at next year’s event.

Proposals can be submitted here:
http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2009/public/cfp/38. The deadline runs
through Oct. 22.

Recordare LLC has released version 4 of its Dolet plug-in for the
Sibelius 5 music notation program. Recordare’s Dolet plug-ins serve
as “universal translators” between music notation programs. The Dolet
4 for Sibelius plug-in saves MusicXML 2.0 files from Sibelius. This
lets Sibelius users share files with users of other music
applications.

The Dolet 4 plug-in also supports many new Sibelius 5 features.
Combined with MusicXML 2.0 support, this greatly increases the
fidelity of moving sheet music from Sibelius to Finale and other
programs.

Schlage Introduces Innovative Web- and Mobile Phone-controlled Locks

CARMEL, Ind., Sept. 3 — Schlage, the most trusted brand of door locks,
today unveiled the latest consumer electronic innovation that fuses home
security and automation with mobile technology.

Alta Vida has updated Babelingo (http://www.ibabelingo.com/), the
language translation utility for the iPhone and iPod touch, to
version 1.2. Version 1.2 includes professionally translated phrases
in the Czech and Hindi languages.

Containing more than 300 phrases and words, Babelingo is a phrase
book communicator. It can translate to and from nine different
languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, German,
Czech, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese.

Each category, phrase, word, and screen can be presented in any one
of the supported languages.

Canto (http://www.canto.com) has released Cumulus 7.6, a feature
update to the digital asset management software. It’s compatible with
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. A demo version is available for download.

Built-in rendering of PDF files leads the pack of new Cumulus 7.6
features. PDF thumbnails and previews can be generated on any
operating system — even via a web browser — without the need for
Adobe Acrobat.

Advanced PowerPoint handling is also built into Cumulus 7.6.