software
App Smart: How to Get Loyalty Card Prices Without Loyalty Cards
Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.
Autodesk Will Reintroduce Its AutoCAD Design Software for Macs
As Apple’s line of Mac computers has staged a comeback, more customers have asked that Autodesk make its flagship product available on the platform again.
Don’t Tell the Creative Department, but Software Can Produce Ads, Too
BETC Euro RSCG has developed software that can produce elementary advertisements.
Software War Pits Oracle vs. Google
Now used by more big technology companies, open-source software has become a weapon in corporate warfare.
Government Takes Closer Look at Google’s ITA Acquisition
The Department of Justice has asked for more information to assess Google’s acquisition of ITA Software.
Broadcom Pitches Lingua Franca for PCs, TVs and Tablets
Via a new software platform, Broadcom looks to make it easier for software makers to link our gadgets and share files. Intel is working on a similar solution.
App Smart: Took a Bad Photo? Paint, Sketch or Distort It, Beautifully
A variety of effects may help you escape with art of a different sort, or at least a laugh.
For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
Robert Taub has put his concert career aside to develop computer aids for musicians.
Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad
Inkling is bringing textbooks to the iPad and letting students and professors share notes about specific passages.
App Smart: Quick Access to Poetry in the Age of Technology
Smartphones are great for poetry, as even the most casual lovers of verse can read it whenever the spirit moves them.
The Bay Citizen: For Digital Artists, Apps Provide New Palette
The advent of mobile devices with touch screens and tilt sensors is changing some artists’ approach to art.
App Smart: Help for Do-It-Yourself Wedding Planners
Owners of smartphones, iPads and iPods will find that one of these apps will substantially reduce wedding stress, and maybe even save a few bucks.
