Google cuts network usage by terabytes by switching to WebP – CNET

Posted by on May 17, 2013

Google is happy enough with WebP to spread it across the company, including the Google+ app on Android. Also: new features coming to WebP. Stephen Konig, a Google product manager, discusses the WebP image format at Google I/O 2013. (Credit: …

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Google cuts network usage by terabytes by switching to WebP

Posted by on May 17, 2013

Google is happy enough with WebP to spread it across the company, including the Google+ app on Android. Also: new features coming to WebP. Stephen Konig, a Google product manager, discusses the WebP image format at Google I/O 2013. (Credit: …

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Photoshop Express brings its quick photo fixes to Windows 8 and RT

Posted by on May 17, 2013

Adobe’s Photoshop Express has been taking care of our botched photos on Android and iOS for quite some time, but it hasn’t had its turn on a desktop-class platform. That changes with today’s launch of a version for Windows 8 …

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Toshiba Kirabook review: Toshiba tries to reinvent itself with a flagship Ultrabook

Posted by on May 17, 2013

More Info Toshiba’s Kirabook rocks a 2,560 x 1,440 display, arrives May 12th starting at $ 1,600 Toshiba Kirabook hands-on Chromebook Pixel review It’s not like Toshiba is new to laptops — it’s been making them for decades — but …

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Google: Dart will rescue browsers from JavaScript

Posted by on May 17, 2013

The programming language for Web sites and Web apps is less complex and therefore easier to develop, Chrome programmers argue at Google I/O. Chrome programmer Lars Bak speaking at Google I/O 2013 (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO — Google long …

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Analysis: Amazon gets help to lure big business to the cloud

Posted by on May 15, 2013

A zoomed illustration image of a man looking at a computer monitor showing the logo of Amazon is seen in Vienna November 26, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Leonhard Foeger By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO | Wed May 15, 2013 12:07am EDT SAN …

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ABC will reportedly launch TV streaming app this week

Posted by on May 13, 2013

App will allow TV viewers in New York and Philadelphia to watch live streams on their iPhones and iPads, The New York Times reports. Television network ABC will reportedly launch an app this week that will allow residents of New …

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Unhappy Customers Want to Parachute From Adobe’s Creative Cloud

Posted by on May 10, 2013

Adobe won’t be selling its software in brick and mortar stores in the future. Photo: Max Kiesler Adobe’s move to the Creative Cloud isn’t sitting well with all of its customers. Over 5,000 of them have now signed a Change.org …

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Surface Pro driver enables Pen pressure sensitivity in Adobe Photoshop

Posted by on May 10, 2013

After a long and awkward delay, there’s been some movement in the saga known as “Surface Pro’s Pen accessory won’t work with the one major application that could really benefit from it.” Microsoft’s Panos Panay tweeted yesterday that he had …

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Adobe’s move to the cloud: What it means, and why it isn’t so bad

Posted by on May 9, 2013

In case you haven’t heard, a chapter in the history of Adobe’s venerated Photoshop (and other Creative Suite applications) has just snapped shut. That’s because all future versions have been moved to the Creative Cloud and renamed “CC,” meaning that …

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