Year: 2010

AdMob: iPhone accounts for 50% of smartphone requests in February

AdMob (http://www.admob.com) — which stores and analyzes handset and operator data from every ad request in its network of more than 15,000 mobile web sites and applications — says that, in February, smartphones accounted for 48% of its worldwide traffic/

That’s up from 35% in February 2009. The strong growth of iPhone and Android traffic, fueled by heavy application usage, was primarily responsible for the increase, AdMob says. Although the share of feature phone traffic in AdMob’s network declined from 58% o 35% year-over-year, absolute traffic from feature phones still grew 31%.

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Layer Groups 2.0 InDesign plug-in available as public beta

DTP Tools is offering a public beta version of the new Layer Groups 2.0 plug-in with more than a doubled feature set.

The plug-in is CS5 ready and upgrade from any previous version of Layer Groups and InDesign is free as all DTP Tools plug-in upgrades always are. The public beta offers a: listing of objects in the layer on current spread; a listing of objects in the layer in the document; and the ability import layers including structure and content from other documents

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Zevrix releases LinkOptimizer 4.1.11 for InDesign

Zevrix Solutions (http://www.zevrix.com) has released LinkOptimizer 4.1.11, an update of its workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. The new version addresses several performance and stability issues related to link analyzing, image processing and software compatibility.

LinkOptimizer lets you reduce InDesign job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data and performing essential image adjustments.

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LightSpeed upgrade adds new POS screen, Multi-Store Pro, more

Xsilva Systems (http://www.xsilva.com/explore) has released LightSpeed 3.0, an update of the multi-user Point of Sale (POS) system built exclusively for Mac OS X. The upgrade features a new point-of-sale screen, new features for multi-store retailers, including a new solution called Multi-Store Pro, and expanded support for Xsilva’s e-commerce solution, Web Store 2.0.

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