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Monday, 29th August 2011

Adobe Launches PDF Creation App For iOS

Adobe has launched an application for iOS that lets you create PDF files from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. CreatePDF is not the first app to offer this functionality, but it is Adobe's first official crack at enabling PDF creation on iOS devices. The app lets you turn common document files like Microsoft Office, Open Office, Adobe…

John Paul Titlow comments

Wikileaks Loses Control Over Cables

Unedited versions of the United States diplomatic cables that Wikileaks has released over the last year have gone public, exposing sources around the world to possible recriminations. According to German news magazine, Der Spiegel, based on an original report in Der Freitag, a convergence of screw-ups involving the group's former German spokesman…

Curt Hopkins comments

What All Tablet News Readers Need: Pulse's Simple New Feature

In the world of personalized news readers on a tablet, the competition is hot between market leader Flipboard, upstart Zite, Feedly and Pulse . Flipboard hardly ever adds new features anymore (they are too busy cutting deals with publishers and reading all their glowing reviews in the iTunes app store) but last night competitor Pulse added a…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Microsoft to Compete with Salesforce, SAP Using CAL Rebates

Last year, financial analysts took note of the steepening share decline by SAP in the CRM software market, with the other three major players - Salesforce.com, Siebel (Oracle), and Microsoft Dynamics - reaping the benefits. This week's buzz around the Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco (which formally gets under way tomorrow) lends…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

The True Cost of SaaS Apps Isn't About the Browser

An article by Derek Singleton on the blog for Software Advice talks about five things that he sees makes SaaS unique, including the talent draw of cloud companies, the ability to scale up operations more smoothly, the way cloud software is being purchased and consumed and other reasons. While Singleton makes a lot of sense - and I do like the…

Enterprise David Strom comments

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