2008 Woodie Awards
Tech briefs
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Business
Microsoft Surface, the software maker's coffee-table shaped touch-screen computer, will make its debut as a marketing tool in a handful of AT&T's wireless stores April 17.
The Surfaces that are going to be in use are all are programmed to recognize eight of AT&T's wireless phones. When a customer places one or more phones on the table, information about features pops up.
Shoppers can also zoom around AT&T's coverage map and learn about calling plans by moving their hands across the screen. The machines are intended to help salespeople, not replace them, AT&T said.
The Surface was revealed last May by Microsoft and was slated to first appear in T-Mobile USA stores last November, along with properties owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Harrah's Entertainment. Delays have prevented them from being released until now.
Photoshop CS is among one of the most pirated software that is out on the market.
In a survey done over the last week by epicedits.com, a website that is designed for photo editors, it was found that 72 percent of the photographers who were surveyed used illegitimate or pirated version of Photoshop.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone who frequents many of the major torrent sites on the web, because Photoshop is frequently listed as one of the most downloaded files.
The results of the poll suggest that for every legal copy of Photoshop on the market, there's a pirated counterpart and then some. These numbers go to show just how much money is being lost out on by adobe since the program retails at 629.99.
These pirated copies have helped to popularize the program with the individual photographer.
It is also important to point out that for many people the alternative to using a pirated version is using a freeware program. This in itself would be worst for the developer because while they would be using a pirated version of the software they would be using a competitor's software.
The Surfaces that are going to be in use are all are programmed to recognize eight of AT&T's wireless phones. When a customer places one or more phones on the table, information about features pops up.
Shoppers can also zoom around AT&T's coverage map and learn about calling plans by moving their hands across the screen. The machines are intended to help salespeople, not replace them, AT&T said.
The Surface was revealed last May by Microsoft and was slated to first appear in T-Mobile USA stores last November, along with properties owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Harrah's Entertainment. Delays have prevented them from being released until now.
Photoshop CS is among one of the most pirated software that is out on the market.
In a survey done over the last week by epicedits.com, a website that is designed for photo editors, it was found that 72 percent of the photographers who were surveyed used illegitimate or pirated version of Photoshop.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone who frequents many of the major torrent sites on the web, because Photoshop is frequently listed as one of the most downloaded files.
The results of the poll suggest that for every legal copy of Photoshop on the market, there's a pirated counterpart and then some. These numbers go to show just how much money is being lost out on by adobe since the program retails at 629.99.
These pirated copies have helped to popularize the program with the individual photographer.
It is also important to point out that for many people the alternative to using a pirated version is using a freeware program. This in itself would be worst for the developer because while they would be using a pirated version of the software they would be using a competitor's software.
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Photoshop Fan
posted 8/26/08 @ 6:49 PM CST
I don\'t think it\'s ok to try to justify the piracy of Photoshop by saying that Adobe benefits from it. Not paying for something is wrong, plain and simple!
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