IBM buys Worklight mobile software company

IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

Worklight, which is based in Israel, had already partnered with IBM. Its technologies include Worklight Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment) and Worklight Server, described on the company's website as a "secure and scalable gateway between applications, external services, and the enterprise backend infrastructure."

The Worklight platform is suitable for developing mobile applications for both consumers and enterprises, as well as targeted toward various industry verticals, IBM said. It includes SDKs (software development kits) for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows mobile devices, and "enables rich, cross-platform apps without requiring code translation, proprietary interpreters or unpopular programming languages," according to Worklight's site.

Also Tuesday, IBM announced IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, a software platform companies can use to secure and manage employees smartphones, tablets and laptops. The software is based on technology IBM acquired through its 2010 purchase of BigFix.

Customers will be able to use the system to remove sensitive data from devices that become lost or stolen, as well as determine whether a device is meeting security compliance rules, IBM said in a statement.

IBM's close partner SAP is also trying to become a major player in mobility through its 2010 acquisition of Sybase. That deal provided SAP with the widely used Sybase Unwired mobile middleware and Afaria device management platform.

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SOA Software get marketing award

SOA Software Receives 2011 Marketing Award

U.S. Commerce Association Honors the Achievement

NEW YORK, NY, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SOA Software has been selected for the 2011 Los Angeles Award in the Merchandising & Marketing category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

The USCA Award Program recognizes outstanding enterprises throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their enterprise category. These companies enhance the positive image of business through service to their customers and region.

"Receiving the 2011 Marketing Award is an honor and very special," said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of marketing. "It builds on our recognition from top analysts for our innovative products and from tier one industry organizations for our forward thinking marketing management."

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2011 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.


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CyberLink Power Director video editing review

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Capturing video using CyberLink Power Director video editing software is simple, thanks to the logically designed capture window. You can access this feature by clicking the Capture button on the main user interface. From there, you can capture an extensive array of file types from just about any device. This video editing software provides ample support for standard and high-definition input file types, from the most common to cutting-edge new formats. This includes HD MPEG-2, DVR-MS, DV-AVI, DAT, DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, VRO, ASF, WMV, WMV HD, MOV, MOD, MPEG-4, AVC (H.264), TS, MTS, M2TS and WTV (single channel). FLV and MKV formats, which have become preferred for high definition for the internet, are also available. New to this version of PowerDirector is the ability to capture all kinds of exciting 3D video content. You can import them from digital files on your computer or directly from your 3D camera or camcorder. You can use CyberLink PowerDirector to capture full HD directly from your HDV camcorder. (AVCHD video capture and importation requires the Ultra version upgrade). This digital format does not require conversion before you can start your edits. Similarly, you can capture footage from a DV without any pesky conversions. Batch capture is particularly convenient for capturing multiple video clips automatically, but you can also grab individual segments using the single scene capture mode. You can even transfer the footage from your camcorder directly to a DVD using CyberLink PowerDirector's DV Backup functionality. Of course, camcorders are not the only devices that can transfer files to CyberLink PowerDirector video editing software. You can also capture scenes from a webcam, DVD, CD, microphone or even a TV signal. New to PowerDirector 10 is the ability to capture from Blu-ray Discs. Regardless of the format or source of the material, all captured content appears in the Media Room library as soon as you return to edit your video. Ease of Use CyberLink PowerDirector video editing software features an extensive drag-and-drop interface that is easy to learn. You can get started by simply dragging clips from the Media Room to the timeline. Adding transitions and effects, trimming and splitting clips, and setting clip duration are all just few clicks away. The Magic Movie Wizard is even easier. New users can easily experience the satisfaction of creating a high-quality movie, complete with edited video blended with professional-looking effects and transitions by using this automatic programming. There are a number of other Magic features as well, which serve to make beginners look like seasoned pros and more experienced users look even better. The Magic Fix function can remove shakiness from footage, remove red eye or enhance the focus of photos. The Magic Motion Designer allows you to add custom panning and zooming to your videos. It can even animate still photos, which opens up the floodgates of creativity. The Magic Cut feature automatically condenses long clips into shorter ones that contain only the highest quality footage. Finally, Magic Style gives you the ability to add pre-designed style templates for a professional look. Editing Tools The whole point of video editing software is to enhance raw footage that generally contains unwanted or low-quality images. CyberLink PowerDirector provides a seemingly endless array of tools to solve these issues. You will be able to show off a final product that you can be proud of and that your audience will enjoy. You will accomplish most of the work in the drag-and-drop timeline, which allows for reordering clips as well as adding effects and transitions to make your movie look its best. With 200 video and audio tracks (which is far more than most users could ever hope to fill), the timeline is also a great creativity tool. A group of functions called Power Tools is also included as part of this video editing software. These tools include the ability to play a selected clip in reverse, crop and zoom in on selected portions of a clip, adjust the video speed, freeze frame and even rotate the clip within the video. Clip splitting is one of the most useful features of this video editing software. You can split a clip as many times as you like and move it wherever you choose on the timeline. You can also trim unwanted portions of video and audio content from your final product. A particularly useful property of trimming is that it doesn't delete anything from your original content, so accidents are easily repaired. You can also modify the duration of by simply dragging the beginning or end points on the timeline. TrueTheater video enhancements are available to perform a number of impressive editing tasks. The ability to upscale standard-definition video content to HD quality is among our favorites, but you can also enhance image details, naturalize colors, automatically adjust chroma and luminance, and the list goes on. You can remove annoying grain from clips, stabilize shaky images in real time and even convert 2D videos and photos into 3D – all thanks to Cyberlink PowerDirector's TrueTheater package. Editing Effects/Transitions CyberLink PowerDirector offers a wealth of effects and transitions that will make your video look even more polished and professional. One of the most creative effects – unique to this video editing software – is the Particle Effect function. With it, you can make a huge selection of dazzling images trail across your video. You can even direct the path of images for just the right look. Adding picture-in-picture images is a snap, and adding from an enormous library of transitions and titles, including 3D ones, is easily done on the timeline. Audio & Photo Editing This video editing software takes photo editing to a new level. It includes the ability to import video footage or still images from many DSLR cameras. This includes importing still photos in RAW file format. Once you import a photo to the application, all of the extraordinary editing features are available, including the ability to make slideshows that include 3D and motion effects. You can export images in a variety of formats, including JPS and MPO. You can edit audio, including 5.1 surround sound, using the integrated WaveEditor. It allows you to adjust volume and pitch, change speed and reduce noise effectively. Audio content can be separated from video for greater flexibility and creative control. This version of PowerDirector introduces the Beat Marker, which analyzes your audio content and places markers at prominent beat locations. This is hugely useful for timing transitions and applying other editing techniques. To further enhance audio quality, the auto-normalizer corrects all audio files in the timeline for equal consistency throughout your clips. Summary If you are looking for video editing software that has great editing features, multiple export options and reliable help and support, our recommendation is CyberLink PowerDirector 10. And if you need even more advanced functionality, check out CyberLink PowerDirector 10 Ultra. With this application you will be sure to have a great experience turning your home videos into movies that your friends and family will enjoy watching. This is video editing software at its best, and it's at your fingertips.

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Review Bitdefender antivirus plus 2012

Setup

When we reviewed Bitdefender's Total Security 2011, we noted that the software's installation took longer than most other security suites. This time around, Bitdefender claims installation times have been cut in half. Once we downloaded the software, we were up and running in less than four minutes. Before it even boots for the first time, the software runs a quick system scan to determine the overall health of your computer. After the scan and installation are complete, you are ready to go.

Interface

For its 2012 edition, Bitdefender completely revamped Total Security's user interface, and we like what the company has done. The new interface looks much cleaner and slicker than previous versions and puts everything that's important to the average user right up front. Like Kaspersky's Internet Security 2012, Bitdefender Total Security 2012 provides users with an intuitive color-coded threat indicator located at the top of the home screen. Below that are four main control "modules" (panels) for the suite's anti-virus, firewall, anti-spam, and update features.

A small bar located below the controls lets users scroll through Total Security's other modules, which include parental controls, privacy settings, safebox, tune-up, network map, and safego options. We particularly liked that the modules could be dragged and dropped into new positions, so you can put them in the order that you think is most important.

The modules make using Total Security easy. Each module has either a drop-down menu or single button to access its features. For instance, the anti-virus module's drop-down menu allows you to choose between a full scan, quick scan, custom scan, etc. We especially appreciated how the software provided a quick explanation of each scan when you moused over it. In fact, Bitdefender includes simple explanations for most of the options available to users, making the software exceedingly accessible.

Just because Total Security is user-friendly doesn't mean it will leave more advanced users wanting for options. The software also has a plethora of advanced settings--including custom settings for your proxy servers and the ability to exclude certain file extensions from scans--so you'll be able to customize this security suite to your liking.

Features and System Impact

This year marks the debut of Total Security's Autopilot feature. When activated, Autopilot takes the major bulk of decision-making for detected threats out of your hands. This is a great addition, as it got rid of those annoying pop-ups telling us that the software detected a threat. It's a nice feature to have and one that users will really appreciate.

The software's new Scan Dispatcher adds to Total Security's non-interference approach, activating system scans only when your system's resource usage falls below a set level. That bodes particularly well for gamers, who usually have to deal with constant interruptions while playing games.

We were very impressed with Total Security 2012's ability to scan for viruses without impacting our laptop's performance. During an initial 35-minute full system scan, we didn't notice any system slowdown, even while surfing the web and working in Microsoft Office. Overall CPU usage during the scan stayed relatively low, hovering between 10 to 30 percent.

Security Performance

In third-party tests conducted by AV-Test, Total Security 2012 performed extremely well. In AV-Test's malware detection test, Total Security detected 99.53 percent of 105,634 pieces of malware. That's better than both Kaspersky Internet Security 2012's 99.4-percent rate and Norton Internet Security 2012's 98.94 percent.

According to AV-Test, Total Security also managed to detect 100 percent of the common malware threats thrown at it, and successfully removed 93.6 percent of them. Kaspersky, on the other hand, was only able to detect 94.4 percent of malware tossed its way. Norton's offering caught 93.3 percent of malware introduced to it, but could only remove 83.3 percent.

Total Security also has you covered when it comes to new threats from the web. The software was able to detect and block 28 of 28 attacks. That's way better than the average blocking rate of 85.7 percent. Norton Internet Security 2012 was also able to detect 100 percent of new threats, while Kaspersky stopped 94.6 percent.

Other features include Active Virus Control, which continuously monitors any application running on your PC to determine if it's malware. A new virtualized browser launches your web browser in a Bitdefender-controlled environment, so that your computer is protected from web-based threats that can exploit vulnerabilities in your operating system.

Backup and Privacy

Total Security 2012 offers the standard 2GB of online file backup that most security suites offer. Unlike other suites, though, it's free for the life of the product. You can set Total Security to either automatically back up your data to the cloud, or you can back up your files manually. Total Security's new Safebox feature also detects any changes made to your backed up files and updates them accordingly. Users can also access their backed-up files on any computer that has Bitdefender 2012 installed on it. While we had no problems backing up less than 2GB of data, trying to back up more than that amount caused the software to crash.

Like McAfee's Total Protection 2012, Total Security 2012 includes a data shredder that both deletes and writes over data you want permanently erased. Users can either shred a folder or file from Total Security's main interface or by right-clicking on the item they want deleted in Windows Explorer and selecting Shredder. Users can also digitally encrypt data with Total Security's encryption feature.

ID theft protection, provided by ID Watchdog, looks for and identifies changes in your public and private records, including Social Security records, medical collections, driving records, national security watch lists, and criminal records. To access this feature, users must log into their MyBitdefender account through either BitDefender's website or through Total Security's privacy module. Overall, this was a nice addition to the software and something not offered by any of the other suites we reviewed.

Total Security's Safego Facebook app protects your Facebook account from scams and scans your news feed for spam and malicious links. Safego also automatically warns your friends when potentially harmful links are posted in their news links. The software also scans for and detects fake profiles and even filters out tweets that may contain malicious links.

Parental Controls

Bitdefender Total Security 2012 provides parents with a plethora of control options, from setting a web access time limit to specifying what words can be displayed in your child's instant messages. Currently the software only supports monitoring for Yahoo! Messenger. You can either choose from a predetermined configuration based on your child's age or manually set the controls to tailor them to your child's needs.

In addition to the basic website-blocking feature, users can block specific applications and keywords and disable instant messaging. Users can also select what types of web sites they want to block from a list of categories that includes everything from violent cartoons to cults.

Parental Control logs provide information regarding your child's activities, including what websites they visit, what applications they use most often, and if your child attempted to access something you've already blocked.

Verdict

Last year we knocked Bitdefender for falling behind its competition, and it looks like the company got the message loud and clear. We really like the software's sleek new interface, and its ease of use was above reproach. The addition of the innovative auto-pilot feature, ID anti-theft protection, and Facebook and Twitter scanning make Bitdefender the one to beat. Bitdefender Total Security 2012 is our top pick among security suites.

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Movavi Slideshow Creator review

Movavi Slideshow Creator is standalone software to create attractive slideshows for your digital images by applying background music and slide transition. You can save your slide show in video file format, save to the format which is recognized by mobile devices or burn to CD/DVD.

Movavi Slideshow

Features: When you share your photos or images with your friends, relatives you want them to see the photos easily. If the photos are presented in slideshow with attractive style, it attracts the viewer. Using Movavi Slideshow Creator you can create attractive and catchy slideshow in widely supported formats.


The application supports wide range of images for slide show creation. You can add image file with individual images or from folder. In second step add your favorite music to improve the quality of slideshow. In step three you can set transition duration and slide duration in seconds using the slider. You can set transition from the supported options. In the last step you can preview your slideshow and once you are satisfied with the result then export your slideshow in various formats. You can save your slideshow as video file in various formats like AVI, MPEG, 3GPP, FLV, WMV etc. The application allows you save your slideshow to support mobile devices such as iPod, Blackbery, PDA, Microsoft Zune and many more. You can also burn CD / DVD and share with your friends, relatives etc.




Overall: This is a very good utility to create attractive slideshow for your photos.
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