Archive for April, 2008

Adobe suspend the development and commercialization of GoLive

Adobe GoLive is an html editor on the market for some time and that, in a first phase, contrasts at work the now popular Dreamweaver. Since its birth, GoLive has always been characterized by a high level of interaction with the user based on the graphic.

The acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe has inherited the house in San Jose, the previously mentioned Dreamweaver, well appreciated by the public for the options offered on the development of AJAX solutions. GoLive on this front has been a step backwards.

In order also to avoid unnecessary duplication of product, Adobe has chosen to discontinue the development and commercialization of GoLive: all resources will be dedicated to Dreaweaver. Adobe offers a special offering dedicated to those who intend to migrate from GoLive to Dreamweaver, in fact, at a cost of 199 Euro you can purchase a new license.

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Nintendo reveals the list price of Wii Fit

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This is what nintendo announces about the list price of the popular fitness game for Nintendo Wii. It is highly likely that Nintendo fixed on the 90 euro price of the European bundle, at least according to the recent trend which affects the prices in the two continents.

In Japan, Wii Fit is on the market since last October at a price of 8800 yen (around $ 87). The American edition will be available from May 19, while the European Union will arrive a few weeks before, namely April 25. Nintendo announces yet another initiative, this time on the Nintendo World Center in New York: the first thousand that will carry out the pre-order will receive a free T-shirt with the image of Shigeru Miyamoto and his signature.

Wii Fit includes more than 40 different gymnastic exercises involving the arts yoga, aerobics, strength training and more. The Balance Board (also see the photo) is necessary to interface with the game. This is able to detect body movements and translate them into data for the software. The system can, in fact, determine the movement of weight.

Yahoo! announces the new oneSearch 2.0

Yahoo! has recently unveiled to the public oneSearch 2.0, the new version of its search engine for mobile devices. The improvements and new features introduced to allow users to search using the text or your own voice, and to obtain more detailed results. With this new product, Yahoo! aims to become the starting point in many mobile consumers. Marco Boerries, Executive Vice President of Connected Life Division Yahoo!, Said:

“With the launch of oneSearch in 2007, we revolutionized mobile search by recreating a specific tool for mobile devices, focusing on the answers and not just the links found on the web in just one year we signed 29 partnerships with operators around the world, covering more than 600 million users. With oneSearch 2.0 radically change the way people use the Internet on their mobile phones. ”

Yahoo! opens oneSearch to publishers and developers, giving them the ability to integrate content that will be displayed in the results of research. The new Open Search should provide a more detailed, giving you a broader picture.

Another remarkable novelty introduced by oneSearch 2.0 is the ability to search using just your voice. Users can search for anything: places, sites, restaurants and much more simply by speaking through a voice-recognition technology developed by vlingo.

Currently you can use the voice feature only in the United States and some Blackberry devices. In the following months the support will be extended to other mobile devices and will be expanded coverage of the service at the international level. Open Search functionality is expected by the end of the second quarter of the year, together with some features search assistant.