Codehead has introduced ShareOver 1.0, a social sharing app for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
ShareOver enables users to share web pages, links, and online videos from any browser by dragging and dropping the favicon or the URL of the page to a menu bar icon. The software supports social sharing via email, Facebook, Twitter, Google , Reddit, Tumblr, and Delicious. Users can also save links to Read It Later and Instapaper.
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LongTail Video (http://www.longtailvideo.com) — a provider of self-serve video solutions for web publishers — has unveiled its latest “State of HTML5 Video” report (http://www.longtailvideo.com/html5/), showing continued growth in HTML5 support and playback across the browser market, while highlighting other trends and issues in both mobile and desktop browsers.
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Is Apple on the verge of dominating the digital movie market and revolutionizing television, as well? Those answers are “looks like it” (digital movies) and “outlook cloudy” (television viewing).
When it comes to digital movie sales, Apple already controls 65% of the market, according to research by IHS Screen Digest. Now as as Apple expands digital offerings into the cloud via iCloud, it threatens to dwarf Hollywood’s own UltraViolet cloud initiative with the only credible challenge coming from Amazon and Google, not the movie industry.
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Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, Disney’s Pixar division and Lucasfilm and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other’s employees, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/m23lu).
District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected the companies’ bid to dismiss claims brought under the federal Sherman antitrust law and California’s own antitrust law, the Cartwright Act.
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Extensis (http://www.extensis.com) says Suitcase Fusion 4, the newest version of the professional-grade font manager for Mac and Windows operating systems, is now available for purchase or upgrade. The upgrade brings font handling tools directly into the creative workflow, allowing designers to access them where and when they are needed, says Chris Meyer, senior product manager, Font Solutions.
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