Many business users rely heavily on Evernote for managing documents and other information, but the service's Achilles' heel has long been its lack of markup capabilities. . . That may not sound like a big deal, but for anyone who uses Evernote to store and especially share PDFs, it's welcome news indeed. Now you can mark up PDFs with text, arrows, shapes and highlighter tools, then sync them back to your account and/or share them with co-workers.
Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice of rapid software development called devops. UrbanCode’s application release automation (ARA) software automates the process of delivering applications and application updates directly from development shops to end-devices such as mobile phones and servers. UrbanCode packaged its core ARA software as part of a devops integrated suite of tools for building, deploying, provisioning and releasing software packages. Companies such as Wells Fargo, Fidelity, Walmart, Disney and Expedia have used UrbanCode’s products. For IBM, UrbanCode’s ARA software will provide a crucial component in its plans to update its
Enterprise social networking software, which offers social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration like employee profiles, activity streams, microblogging and document sharing, has evolved from a “nice to have” to a “should have” status in enterprises. Picking up on that shift, Microsoft plunked down more than $1 billion last summer to buy Yammer—at the time a leading independent provider of ESN software—in order to boost ESN capabilities primarily in its collaboration server SharePoint and also in other products like Office, Lync, Outlook and Dynamics. While Microsoft has been busy working on integrating Yammer with SharePoint behind the scenes, it’s now clear that the effort is complex and that a fusion of the products will take at least two more years to complete. For now, the integration deliverables will be modest. Microsoft said in March that Office 365 customers will get the option this summer to replace SharePoint Online’s activity-stream component with Yammer’s activity stream.
Microsoft appears ready to concede what virtually every critic, user, and analyst knows about Windows 8: the new OS needs the Start button back, badly. reported Monday. , all of whom cite anonymous sources inside or close to the company. With three separate reports all claiming the same thing, it sounds like a near certainty that the famous Start button is coming back. But don’t stop practicing your hot corner navigation just yet, as ZDNet cautions that plans may change as Windows 8.1 nears its official release, expected in August.
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors. The worldwide software market grew 3.6 percent year-on-year and totaled $342.6 billion, which is less than half the growth rates seen in 2010 and 2011, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker. IDC sees 2012 as the beginning of a period with slower growth for the enterprise software market as a whole. However, there are faster growing segments, such as data access, analysis and delivery; collaborative applications; CRM applications, security software; and system and network management software, according to IDC. On a regional basis, the overall software market was undermined by sluggish sales in Western Europe, which represented 26.5 percent of the worldwide market and was the only region to experience a drop in revenue in 2012. The U.S. market—which represented more than 45 percent of the overall market—grew by 6 percent year-on-year, according to IDC. The countries with the greatest growth in 2012 were Saudi Arabia, Peru, Colombia, China, and Turkey, it said.
—would have to start paying sales tax for your online purchases, but opponents warn that pushing the proposal through could create some severe side effects. The legislation has been hustled to the Senate floor by its leadership to expedite action on the measure and send it to the House of Representatives. might have had something to do with the leadership's move.) If the measure makes it to President Obama's desk as it's written now, not only would consumers need to pay more out-of-pocket for online purchases, but opponents say the bill could open several other cans of worms, as well.
and Android are available, too. And somewhere between the mobile and desktop versions comes Skitch Touch, the version built for Windows 8's Modern Interface. It has the same simple and pretty annotation tools as the other versions, but being a Modern app, offers less power and features than the traditional Windows version. Like many other Modern apps, Skitch Touch seems to be designed for screen in the 11- to 13-inch range. On a 24-inch monitor, it ends up displaying vast expanses of white, unused space. As you launch it, Skitch Touch shows a beautiful Create New area on the left side of the screen, letting you create a pull in material to visually annotate from a camera (presumably a tablet's built-in camera, but this feature also works with a regular webcam connected to a computer), a map, a photo or screenshot you've previously taken, an image saved into the clipboard, or a blank canvas. . Once you have an image open for editing, annotating it is just as easy as on other Skitch versions. Part of what makes Skitch fun to use is that it doesn't overwhelm the user with numerous tools: There are just seven of them to master. You can draw arrows on your image, enter text, demarcate areas with rectangles, and squiggle with a marker. Other tools let you style your annotations (pick a color and stroke width), pixelate areas of the image, and crop the image. That's basically it—but really, that's all you need to get your point across when annotating an image.
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While attending the women's rowing competition between the University of Central Florida, West Virginia University, and the University of Alabama, Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain decided to shoot a video and work out some rowing physics.
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