The News Review:
- Tibco Software 1Q Net Up 2% n Higher Margins Lower Expenses
- Pittsburgh-based Esteam acquired by Maryland software firm
- Review: Plug-in software that fine tunes iTunes
- Software execs face fraud sentencing in Seattle
- pera Software shows off pera Mobile 9.7 with Flash and Turbo support
- MacSpeech Dictate voice recognition software can be real timesaver
Tibco Software 1Q Net Up 2% n Higher Margins Lower Expenses
Wall Street Journal
–>Tibco Software 1Q Net Up 2% n Higher Margins Lower Expenses ArticleCommentsmore in. ‘s (TIBX) fiscal first-quarter net income rose 2% because of higher margins and lower operating expenses and despite a drop in license revenue. The business-software maker is expected to face some competitive challenges from larger rivals according to analysts but is seen as a good brand with a solid customer base. Tibco which makes software that helps businesses integrate.
Pittsburgh-based Esteam acquired by Maryland software firm
Bizjournals.com
5M in venture cash. fficials at Social Solutions said the acquisition will add revenue management capabilities to the company’s existing line of software. Esteam’s Web-based software “Total” works to help companies meet changing reimbursement requirements. Social Solutions told the Baltimore Business Journal in February that it was making a purchase and growing its staff by a third after landing a $6. 5 million second round of venture capital.
Review: Plug-in software that fine tunes iTunes
The Associated Press
That’s why hundreds of songs in my iTunes library are missing the proper album artwork or have been lumped into loosely defined categories that don’t truly describe the music genre. For instance iTunes’ automated identification system believes that some songs by the B-52s the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Byrds all belong in the generic rock section. But these birds don’t really flock together do they?If you’re picky about music descriptions and want to find album artwork that iTunes doesn’t have it might be time to get a little help from a software program promising to fill the gaps in digital music collections. I turned to TuneUp a plug-in application that competes against a similar program called FixTunes. Drawing upon a database of 90 million songs TuneUp can pore through thousands of tracks in iTunes within a few minutes to identify problems and offer solutions. It works on Macs and computers running Windows. Unfortunately the help isn’t free: TuneUp charges $20 for a one-year subscription to its service or $30 for lifetime access.
Software execs face fraud sentencing in Seattle
Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Two former executives of the Entellium software company face sentencing Friday in federal court in Seattle for inflating revenue numbers to attract venture capital. Parrish Jones and Paul Johnston pleaded guilty in December to fraud charges. The pair admitted they inflated revenue figures to secure more than $50 million from investors. The Seattle company made software to help businesses track sales.
pera Software shows off pera Mobile 9.7 with Flash and Turbo support
Mobile Burn
7 web browser at next week’s CTIA event in Las Vegas. The new pera Mobile 9. 7 browser features support for pera Turbo a server based compression system that speeds up the mobile web browsing experience. The new browser also comes complete with AJAX and Flash support for a very desktop-like browsing experience from a smartphone.
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MacSpeech Dictate voice recognition software can be real timesaver
Dallas Morning News
com Whatever the other relative merits of Macs and PCs PC users have always had one indisputable advantage – access to better voice recognition software. No Mac program could match the speed or accuracy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking which is why a company called MacSpeech eventually decided to license the technology behind Dragon. MacSpeech Dictate caused a sensation at trade shows last year but when the program finally came out it lacked a few vital features. It could not for example learn from its mistakes and grow to understand how users speak. nly people with clear unaccented voices could count on getting good results.