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Top 5 Tech Stories of the Week: GIMP, LibreOffice, The Firefox Marketplace, Dropbox, Zocalo
Let this week digest be dedicated. Below you’ll find how do both free and paid solutions fight for customers. Check out what they invent to grab your attention.
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which let’s you edit and manipulate images in variety of formats. They made a totally bugfix release, no new features were added. However, it seems that opensource product users will appreciate great work on making app usage more handy.
In anticipation of big LibreOffice Conference in Bern with a large number of development, community, marketing sessions, the Document Foundation announced fresh release of LibreOffice 3.4.1 with 115 bugfixes (as their wiki says) and some new features as well. An in-progress list of features is available here.
Continuing with opensource solutions. Free and open source web browser Mozilla Firefox is working on interesting approach to The Firefox Marketplace consumers. The company’s editorial and campaign manager believes that the best value apps might be better promoted not by apps developers, but users, who have already worked with them. Thus Mozilla Firefox implements the audience curation on the app: geographic location, interests, top users choice based advises etc.
While opensource software is expanding its userbase by improving product quality, giants of IT market work more with its price component.
For instance Dropbox has announced this Wednesday that the available storage space will be increased to 1TB for 10$/month. Of course, that’s not the only bonus Dropbox is going to boost base of paying consumers with. Check out what new features set will make you (probably) pay for this service.
While cloud players competition is becoming tough from day to day AWS makes its Zocalo enterprise cloud storage service public to everyone. With a 30-day free trial you could try all benefits of Zocalo and decide on your own if Amazon really beats other cloud solution like Box and Google Drive.
Top 5 Tech Stories of the Week: rollApp, Chromebox, Amazon Fire Phone, LibreOffice, Box
Is summer considered to be a business dead season? Perhaps, though news stream says opposite. Here are 5 items that you might be interested in this week.
It may sound a bit selfish, but I’ll put to the top the great news which makes the whole rollApp team happy. We have launched a mobile version of our site http://www.rollapp.com . Now access 70+ apps from your mobile device! Would be glad if you share your comments and ideas with us.
So now we can move forward to other companies…
Acer treads the path to the Chromebox world. Announced this Thursday Acer PC with Chrome OS is called to drive sales to constantly falling PC shipments. The First Chrome PC From Acer will go on sale later next month in the US at a starting price of $180 - OmgChrome claims.
Apple’s “one carrier” strategy seems not working for Amazon’s Fire Phone. Web traffic data of Chitika’s ad network shows that Amazon’s Fire Phone isn’t making huge waves in the smartphone market - Gigaom post.
LibreOffice widens not only open source cities geography, but as well its software range. Developers team announced, that PageMaker support is on its way.
Cloud players competition makes market companies to stay fit. Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie is sure that “Box’s ability to work across operating systems, devices and applications, makes it more able to meet user requirements”. Learn more on Levie’s concerns and predictions in Gigaom The Structure Show.
Seems now you know enough to go satisfied on weekends.
Wellcome To rollApp Mobile Site
Good news for rollapp users! Today we have launched a mobile version of www.rollapp.com. From now you will be able to work with your favorite apps from your mobile device with ease. We would be glad to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas about rollApp’s mobile site. Please share it below.
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Top 5 Tech Stories of the Week: AWS, DropBox, Google Drive, Tizen, Chromebooks
Hey, did you miss rollApp? Here we are! And we’ve got something special for you. 5 most interesting tech stories of this week. Let’s see what it is:
In this digest we’ve decided to devote 3 points to cloud storages and it’s worth it.
Most of us like shopping, but some are lazy to do it. Gigaom’s author Brad Darrow advises Amazon how to fill its M&A cart for better and competitive market enter.
Good news comes from Dropbox. From now Android users have doc previews and improved search option. Want to check? Visit The Dropbox blog.
For Google Drive fans there is some good news as well. Google Drive team invites to became a Top Contributor to help millions of users to get their questions answered. Join Google Drive's Top Contributor Program.
And again about intriguing Tizen. Samsung changes the focus. From now it will be more attention to budget Tizen phones.
Check out new Chromebooks hands-on: a 13-hour battery life Acer Chromebook 13 and Lenovo’s dual-mode Chromebook.
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Top Tech Stories of the Week: LibreOffice, 4shared, Amazon Fire, Chromebooks
Wow, the week is almost ended. Time goes by so fast, definitely because there is a lot of news appearing each day. If in this hectic world you’ve missed something, we’ve prepared a digest for you.
LibreOffice new version makes a big buzz this week, so the CNET made the overview of the whole open source idea: community concept, new release and competitive perspectives of MS Office alternative.
Good news for Windows Phone users! Сloud storage with extended facilities 4shared announced an official app for Windows Phone. Take a look at the list of key features in 4shared blog.
PCMag dug deep. They are sure that Amazon Fire should cost less. Wanna know why? Check their investigation in the article.
And the cherry on the pie, the best newsmaker of the week - Chromebook. So what we have here - Acer C720 with Intel Core i3 processor hands-on, ASUS Chromebook C200MA-DS01 review and giveaway and a bit of fun - new video-ad, that makes you dance even if you don’t use Chromebook yet.
Quite a diverse week, isn’t it ?!
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