Austin, TX (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 1, 2009 — Emerging display technologies offer alternative performance, cost, design and business models to mainstream display technologies available today. From touch screens, flexible displays, OLED displays, epaper displays to pocket projectors and 3D displays, it’s important to explore how new display technologies can bring innovative form factors, attractive visual performance, power savings and potentially drive growth in the near future. The DisplaySearch Emerging Display Technologies Conference: Innovation for the Next Wave of Growth, which will be held on September 3, 2009 in San Jose, California, will bring together representatives from all facets of the display supply chain to discuss the status of emerging technologies, as well as provide a forum for discussing how new display technologies can drive Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has introduced Adobe Acrobat 9 software, a significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash® technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »

DUSSELDORF, Germany—At Royal Dutch Printing Ink Factories Van Son the “Natural Colours of Quickson” mark the introduction of the re-structured range of Quickson offset inks. The Quickson PRO process colours, recently introduced on the European market, are complemented with Quickson PLUS and Quickson FRESH process colours and the Quickson Series PANTONE basic colours. The Quickson inks can be used on virtually all kinds of presses and substrates. Read the rest of this entry »

How to get a higher response from your current marketing efforts.
By Michael Huggins, RGD
ForGraphicDesignersOnly.com

Are you getting the results from your mailings that you want?

Do you have a marketing machine that delivers you a CONSISTENT and PREDICATABLE response every time you use it?

Or is your marketing machine currently ‘broken’?

Well let me ask you this… Do you have a steady stream of potential clients coming your way?

Or are you like the many other designers in business today who are constantly frustrated with their lack of leads?

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Urban Geko, a leading graphic design and web design firm shares secrets for creating high quality brochures and marketing collateral.

(PRWEB) November 29, 2007 — Urban Geko, boutique print, multimedia and web design firm in Newport Beach, California, shares five tips for bringing value to your brochure.

“I try to impress on my clients the importance of their brochures,” says Urban Geko co-founder Reza Widjaja. “If designed correctly, a brochure can do wonders for a company.”

Urban Geko’s 5 Design Secrets:
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Sawmill Lite is now available to everyone at no cost from Sawmill Analytics.

Swindon, UK (PRWEB) October 5, 2007 – Sawmill Analytics announces that Sawmill Lite, the entry level product within it’s world-leading Sawmill family of log file analysis tools, is now FREE to anyone requesting a copy. Following completion of the request form found on its web site at www.sawmill.co.uk a unique and perpetual activation key will be emailed to the requestor. The free license is for a single installation only, however no limit is placed on the number of free licenses that may be requested and installed within the same organisation, or the number of users of the data or reports Sawmill Lite produces.   

Sawmill Lite is the entry level product from the Sawmill stable providing almost immediate access to its ‘live’ data reports, with the powerful ability to drill-down into the Sawmill Lite database. Sawmill Lite is the ‘install and go’ product within the Sawmill family. Its reduced set-up options and simplified configurability mean it can be up and running and providing in-depth actionable data within a very short time, typically minutes.

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Greenlight Wireless Releases New Ad Mobilization Technology

Advertizer now dynamically adapts text-based ads to conform to MMA standards.

Irvine, Calif. (PRWEB) October 1, 2007 — Greenlight Wireless today announced a new, patent-pending technology that reformats the presentation of text-based ads created for the desktop to conform to Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) standards.

“This latest innovation to Greenlight’s ad platform adapts ad text for the mobile environment without losing the meaning or impact of the ad,” said Greenlight Wireless President Mark Sieve. “This complex process provides content publishers and ad networks with high cost-per-click desktop ads that will both look and work great in the mobile environment.”

This new technology converts text-based online ads that may include both a headline and an abstract into a format that conforms to MMA standards, which allows for a maximum of two lines of 16 characters each. The dynamically adapted ad text retains its context and “clickability” and the conversion process takes place real-time at sub-second speeds. This display-reformatting system has applications outside the mobile space and can be used to transform ad text to meet many diverse specifications, such as language translation and other localization and network-related criteria.

The new ad reformatting technology is currently available through Greenlight’s Advertizer service, which is a converged ad network that provides both mobile and desktop ads through a single ad feed. Since its release in 2004, Advertizer has used proprietary technology to dynamically reformat ad landing pages created for the desktop environment in such a way that they load quickly and effectively on mobile devices. This latest advance allows Advertizer to fully mobilize desktop text-based ads from the initial presentation of the ad through to the click-through event.

About Advertizer:
Advertizer is the world’s first internationally-consumed mobile advertising service, having served mobile ads in over 175 countries since its release in 2004. Advertizer works by retrieving ads based on keywords or other user input from multiple top-tier ad suppliers, then providing a single ad feed that works across diverse distribution channels, such as mobile and desktop. These ads can be provided in a variety of formats, including CPC, location-based and click-to-call, and can be delivered via commonly-used systems, such as XML, HTML and RSS. Advertizer offers a 50/50 revenue sharing model and doesn’t apply the hidden charges and fees often associated with other ad providers. Advertizer was voted Best Mobile Marketing Product in the 2006 Mobile Star Awards.

About Greenlight Wireless:
Greenlight Wireless is a leading innovator of wireless technologies, providing mobile solutions for enterprise-level businesses, Web portals, and wireless carriers. Greenlight Wireless’ consumer-oriented Skweezer service optimizes Web content for handheld devices, providing a richer browsing experience and adding value to wireless data offerings. Greenlight’s Advertizer product is a cutting-edge advertising program for operators, search engines and publishers who want to monetize their content in the mobile environment.

On the Net: Greenlight Wireless site: www.greenlightwireless.net
Advertizer site: www.advertizer.net
Greenlight Wireless blog: http://blog.greenlightwireless.net

Markzware Donates Preflight Software to PIA/GATF
Source: PIA/GATF, 2007-Aug-16

Markzware announced the donation to PIA/GATF of a thirty-seat license of Flightcheck Professional–a preflight tool for professional designers and prepress production departments within the print and publishing industries.

Joseph Marin, Senior Prepress Technologist at PIA/GATF, states, “Flightcheck Professional is an important component to both PIA/GATF production and training programs. Flightcheck Professional is a tool used to efficiently preflight both native application files and PDF files. The software’s user-friendly interface and short learning curve is a perfect fit for our training programs.”

The addition of this latest donation from Markzware will continue to keep PIA/GATF on the cutting edge of software technology. Additional information on PIA/GATF Training Programs is available at http://www.gain.net (“Events and Training”) or by calling Karen Keller at 800-910-4283 ext. 711.

New Santa Clara Office Will Supplement Sales, Customer Support and Product Development

DENVER — August 9, 2007 — Quark Inc. announced today that the company is expanding its operations with a new Silicon Valley office. Opening in the third quarter of 2007 in Santa Clara, California, the center will be home to an expanding team of sales, customer support personnel and product developers.

By establishing a presence in Santa Clara, Quark aims to attract top talent in order to develop and deliver the industry’s most cutting-edge publishing technology to customers worldwide.

With the addition of product development capabilities in this new office, Quark is continuing its practice of reinvesting more than 25 percent of its revenue in software development, which is above industry average.

“We felt a presence in Silicon Valley was essential to facilitate partnerships, be closer to our clients and supplement our existing development team,” said Raymond Schiavone, president and CEO, Quark.

The Quark Santa Clara center is the latest addition to the company’s global presence. In addition, Quark continues to focus on expanding its presence in the Latin American, Asia, Eastern Europe, Benelux and Russian markets.

About Quark

Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) is an innovative software company providing design, production, and collaboration solutions that are transforming the business of creative communications. Quark has provided award-winning software for professional publishers since its flagship product, QuarkXPress, changed the course of traditional publishing. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.

The Pasadena Museum of California Art has honored the San Francisco design firm MINE™ with four inclusions in the prestigious California Design Biennial — the most inclusions of any graphic design firm.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 13, 2007 — The Pasadena Museum of California Art has honored the San Francisco design firm MINE™ with four inclusions in the prestigious California Design Biennial — the most inclusions of any graphic design firm.

“It’s an honor to have just one of our projects recognized,” says Christopher Simmons, principal and creative director of the three-person firm, “We were most honored to learn that four of our projects were accepted into the biennial.”

MINE™ is represented alongside several larger, more well-known firms such as Apple, Mitsubishi and Belkin, and is one of just 17 graphic design firms represented in the biannual exhibition.

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Insomnisoft announces the release of Jinity, an online service where anyone can start their own Internet community website for free.

A Jinity community portal is very quick and easy to set up. After a couple of minutes the website is available on the internet and ready to use.

On a portal built with Jinity, the users can use the following features, among many others:

- Blogs
- Forums
- Video and image publishing
- User areas

The service is located at http://www.jinity.com.

“The idea behind Jinity is to make it possible for anyone to start their own community portal, not only people with a lot of money or programming skills. We hope that free speech and diversity on the Internet will gain from this project.” – Fredrik Gevert, Insomnisoft

Jinity is financed with advertising that is displayed on the Jinity portals. It is also possible to pay a monthly fee in order to upgrade to an ad free version or a community for commercial use.

Insomnisoft has been working with community portals since 2003 but is now publishing this service in a new format in order to reach a wider international audience.

An employee was hired for design and support during the summer.

High definition images can be downloaded from http://www.jinity.com/press.html.

Looking for an independent contractor or industry specialist consultant can pose a challenge to many people and small businesses. With MyConsultant.com, everyone and businesses can be matched together with one click of the mouse. Industry specialist consultants are prescreened to a criteria that the client fills out.

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FirmTek, LLC, a pioneer and leader in Serial ATA (SATA) storage solutions for Windows and Macintosh platforms, today announced that Macworld Magazine’s United Kingdom edition selected the SeriTek/2eEN4 as the best storage solution among all evaluated during the year 2006. Macworld Magazine’s awards have become the primary recognition event in the Macintosh developer community, and FirmTek surpassed many large and well-known brands to attain this award. Honorees are profiled online now at http://www.macworld.co.uk/awards/index.cfm?mas=winners, and Macworld will include a feature in print in their next issue.

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Earlier this month, TechWorld awarded up.time® 4 its heralded “IT Product of the Year Award” for Network and Systems Management. The TechWorld judging panel considered many factors, including innovation, ingenuity, reliability, and value. up.time has been getting praise in the industry for its IT Systems Monitoring, Server Monitoring, Capacity Planning, SLA reporting, application monitoring, IT services monitoring, and virtualization monitoring and reporting.

David Cartwright of TechWorld writes, “The vendor, uptime software, labels its solution as: ‘Enterprise monitoring and planning software that just works’, so we decided to see if its claim was true.”

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Adobe is shilling for its Creative Suite 3 with a 7×15 ft. interactive wall outside of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square that debuts this morning. The display grants the closest passerby control of a slider button on the bottom that manipulates what’s projected based on their walking speed and direction, producing different effects in the animation. It also reacts incidentally to the crowd around it, which should make the glorious pedestrian congestion in that area even more awesome.

While definitely slick, the implementation of the idea actually seems somewhat limited, and doesn’t make full use of its potential—imagine a 20×20 foot version of Microsoft Surface that people could just walk up and draw on. If it recorded every stroke made over the display’s duration, it could turn into a really interesting mass art project, for instance. Sure, you’d probably wind up with more than a few obscene renderings, but it’s New York, people can handle it.

That said, Adobe is at least slightly savvy to its users, immediately torpedoing the idea to stick the demo in the tourist hellhole (or just general hellhole) that is Times Square, despite its heavier foot traffic.

If you want to check it out but don’t feel like rushing out right now to beat the sweating masses to 14th St., don’t worry, it’ll be there for a month. [NYT]

Did you know that each year the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags? Billions end up as litter and takes hundreds of years to break down in landfill.

Leading accessories designer Anya Hindmarch wanted to do something to make a difference and to encourage people to change their everyday actions. The result is the fashionable ‘I’m Not A Plastic Bag’, which goes on sale for just $15 at select Whole Foods Market stores on July 18th.

For the product’s debut at Whole Foods Market, Anya Hindmarch will be at the Bowery store on July 18th.

This limited edition reusable bag is a collaboration between Anya Hindmarch and global social change movement We Are What We Do. These bags sold out in just hours when they launched in London earlier this year and is expected to bring a similar buzz to the Northeast regional stores of the natural and organic supermarket.

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Performance marketing leader Viva9 has just made advertising online a whole lot easier with its next generation Postclick Technology platform complementing and often replacing other types of offline and online marketing.

Viva9′s updated platform enables advertisers to achieve hassle free pay-for-performance advertising with the benefit of real time reporting.

The Postclick Technology platform removes the uncertainty of underpaying or overpaying for clicks, identifying keywords, and dealing with click fraud.

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An innovative technology launched today enables Internet users to create their personal on-line spokespersons, called virtual spirits (vSpirits). Your virtual spirit is available 24/7 to answer questions, promote your interests and share your ideas with the world. vSpirits give bloggers, social networkers, and businesses a new, user-friendly way to automate interaction with visitors, provide information about themselves, and learn about their visitors in the process.

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HOK, one of the world’s most diverse and influential architectural design practices, has unveiled a new global web site (www.hok.com) that effectively showcases the firm’s design leadership, breadth of expertise and “one-HOK” vision within a simple framework. The new site represents the first major update to HOK’s web presence since 2000.

Featuring a user-friendly interface, the new hok.com organizes all the firm’s practice areas and locations under a single theme – “Ideas Work” – that also serves as an intuitive device for navigating the site.

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Attention Global Designers for Badges, Nameplates and Flexible Applications. Luna Nameplate Industries (http://www.lni.com.au) are delighted to announce the international upgrade of its Interactive web site.

The ability to tap into the most creative and highest quality product for badging and decoration in the world is now available. On this site it is now possible with the brand new concept of E Badges, to see the visual impact of how and where the badge is applied.

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