Year: 2010

Adobe, Typekit collaborate on web fonts

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | , |

Adobe and Typekit are collaborating to offer Adobe Web Fonts (http://www.adobe.com/type), which are engineered to work on multiple screens and can be deployed on any website.  

Avoiding the need to convert type to bitmapped image formats, Adobe Web Fonts are delivered straight to browsers via Typekit’s global network. As aweb font service, Typekit not only provides access to a carefully chosen set of over 120 fonts (16 families) from the Adobe Type Library, but also drives more fonts to more web sites than any other company on the web, says co-founder and president, Bryan Mason.

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Law firm claims false iPad advertising continues

Law firm claims false iPad advertising continues

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | , |

Apple’s advertising of its iPad tablet “as an outside computing device” is “unlawful,” according to Scott Cole & Associates, APC, law firm. The firm has already filed a lawsuit against Apple in San Francisco on July 23.

The suit alleges that Apple engaged in a marketing campaign that promised functionality of the iPad outdoors and/or in warm conditions indoors, yet the computer routinely shuts down quickly in such situations.

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Adobe kicks off 2010 Layer Tennis Design Tournament

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | , |

Adobe says the 2010 Layer Tennis design tournament will kick off this Friday, Aug. 20, at 2 p.m. (Eastern).

Hosted by Coudal Partners and presented by Adobe Creative Suite 5, Layer Tennis is a series of live online digital contests where creative professionals send files back and forth in real time, building upon each others’ designs while a guest commentator provides play-by-play updates. This season, the live matches can be viewed at http://www.layertennis.com and will run every Friday through Dec. 10.

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iPad putting the hurt on Asustek netbooks

Posted by | Aug 16, 2010 | |

Asustek Computer saw sales of its netbooks in the second quarter fall short of expectations mainly due to competition from the iPad, , according to “DigiTimes” (http://macosg.me/2/po).

The company has downward adjusted its target shipments for the third quarter to 1.4 million units, company president and CEO Jerry Shen said at an investors conference on Aug. 13. Asustek will continue to offer Eee PCs and enter the tablet PC segment with its Eee Note and Eee Pad series, he added.

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