Adobe needs rebound with latest Creative Suite

Pent-up demand is expected to boost sales of the newest installment of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Creative Suite, the software package for professional designers and Web developers that brings in most of Adobe's revenue. The product launches Monday. Bad timing hurt sales of the previous version, Creative Suite 4, which went on sale in the fall of 2008 just as the financial crisis hit. As a result, many customers — which range from small design shops and Web developers to large ad agencies — held back on buying upgrades. In a challenge for Adobe,...

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Tech firm says Wi-Fi here to stay; plans to put up RP office

Despite the emergence of new wireless Internet technologies such as 3G and WiMax, a Silicon Valley-based firm is convinced that Wi-Fi has yet to reach its full potential and is, in fact, just starting to make its presence felt in the Philippines and around the world. Ruckus Wireless, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, said Wi-Fi technology is still the easiest and cheapest way to access the Internet wirelessly. Selina Lo, co-founder and president of Ruckus Wireless, visited the country recently as part of her Southeast Asian swing...

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VP bets say Villar endorsed by ‘womanizers’

Vice presidential candidates, at a church-organized forum Tuesday, ganged up on presidential aspirant Sen. Manny Villar Jr. (Nacionalista Party) for seeking the endorsement of popular personalities who are widely perceived as womanizers. “Tila po hindi maganda talaga na gawin mong halimbawa ay taong may question sa bagay na moral," said former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando (Bagumbayan) during the vice presidential forum organized by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). (It’s...

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Twitter to let paid tweets show up in searches

Twitter announced Tuesday that it is introducing advertising by allowing companies to pay to have their messages show up first in searches on its site. The debut of "Promoted Tweets" comes as Twitter increasingly faces questions about how it can turn its wide usage into profits. The ads apparently won't bring in much money during the experimental phase of Twitter's commercial push. Virgin America, one of the advertisers that Twitter invited to test the concept, isn't paying for its first burst of promotional messages, according to Porter...

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Facebook unveils revamped online safety site

Facebook is unveiling a revamped internal site designed to help people stay safe while surfing online. Facebook's "Safety Center," which features new tools for parents, teachers, teens and law enforcement, is the first major endeavor from the social networking site and its four-month-old global safety advisory board. The board is composed of Internet safety groups Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute. Some new features of the safety center include four times more...

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Some senior Lakas members mull dumping Gibo

Several senior members of administration party Lakas-Kampi-CMD may withdraw their support from Gilberto “Gibo" Teodoro Jr. in favor of “another presidential candidate," House Speaker Prospero Nograles warned Tuesday. These members were those who were “neglected" and “left out of the loop" in the current presidential campaign, Nograles said as he accused Teodoro of having a “wrong sense of priorities." “The other senior Lakas members I think who have been neglected or even left out of the loop in this presidential campaign may now be thinking...

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