SYSTRAN, the leading provider of language translation technologies, today announced the availability ofSYSTRAN Mobile Translator English-French for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. using the same recognized machine translation technology preferred by Internet portals, multinational corporations and government agencies, SYSTRAN Mobile Translator provides iPhone, iPod touch and iPad customers with high quality translations in real-time.
Mobile translation products have historically relied on Internet connections to provide translation services. SYSTRAN Mobile Translator is unique because the application is independent, installed directly on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices and doesn’t require Internet connectivity so users are able to instantly translate full sentences, emails, web pages and all texts between English and French. Additional features for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users include the ability to perform reverse translations (back and forth) in just a click, save and view previous translations, align source and translated texts for easy review, and detect and correct typos in the source language prior to translating to prevent mistranslations.
“Today, people are traveling more frequently and taking all of their mobile devices with them,” said Dimitris Sabatakakis, CEO of SYSTRAN. “SYSTRAN recognized this trend and developed the application to make language translation as easy, seamless and affordable as possible for the busy consumer, traveler and professional.”
Plans to release additional European languages, such as Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian, for SYSTRAN Mobile Translator are underway.SYSTRAN Mobile Translator for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is available as a download for $3.99

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Adobe official website screenshot Adobe Advertisement Screenshots IDG (Compile / loudly) Beijing Time on may 14, according to foreign media reports, Adobe Thursday in the U.S. 24 full-page advertisement published in newspapers, on Apple CEO Steve? Jobs (Steve Jobs) recent remarks about AdobeFlash technology to fight back. Adobe in the advertisement that Apple iPad Tablet PC and iPhone Mobile Exclusion of other video Software Practice is to stifle competition.

Adobe said in the ad, “We love creativity,” “We love innovation,” “We love application”, “We love apples”, where “love” to the bright red heart-shaped place; but “we do not love that any person claiming to create what you choose, how to create it and Network What is the freedom to experience “. Adobe’s This ad has been on board, including” The Wall Street Journal “and” new York Times “among the 24 newspapers.

In addition, Adobe founders Chuck? Ge Shike (ChuckGeschke) and John? Warnock (JohnWarnock) also released an open letter to Steve Jobs, Apple said the practice will “destroy” the Internet’s future. The two founders of Adobe, said in an open letter, “Ultimately, we believe that the problem is: who controls the World Wide Web? The answer is: no one, or all, but not a company.”

Adobe’s advertising campaign and addressed an open letter to Steve Jobs, Apple means between the company and further escalation of the confrontation. Apple last month released the latest version of iPhone mobile phone operating system, which iPhoneOS 4.0. The biggest change in the operating system, is the prohibition of the use AdobeFlash-iPhone developers compiler of these non-native iPhone development tools. Adobe offers a variety of development tools for software developers to develop applications on multiple platforms. Apple sparking a conflict between Adobe.

Two weeks ago, Steve Jobs made a 29 high-profile open letter to explain why the Apple iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet PCs do not support AdobeFlash technology specific reasons. Jobs in the open letter listed six deficiencies Flash technology, including porous, high energy consumption, originated in the PC system, it can not be in the Apple iPhone and iPad good platform to run. Jobs also said Apple’s use of open-source format HTML5, allows developers to create online video and animation without the use of such third-party plug-ins like Flash.

Public response Adobe vice president, general manager of platform business David? Wadhwani (DavidWadhwani) said, “Let a company to choose what they want to support the network, this is a dangerous omen.” Adobe’s Advertising and an open letter from Apple is the company’s public response to the criticism. Adobe said in an open letter, “When the market is open, any person has the opportunity to promote innovation and great ideas, and find new users. Adobe’s business philosophy is based on a premise that the best in the open market, the products will eventually win . The best way is to create the best competition, technology and innovation faster than their competitors. ”

Ge Shike and Warnock’s open letter referred only to the “Apple” one, saying that Apple take the opposite approach, which would harm the Internet. The article also said, “no company – big or small – should command what you can create, how to create, or determine your experience in the network.”

Apple spokesman Trudy? Muller (TrudyMuller) that Apple believes an open network like HTML5 standard. she said, “Flash and HTML5 not the same, it is not open Web standards. it is Adobe’s proprietary products.”

Antitrust appeal after news that the U.S. government’s antitrust division, after receiving complaints from Adobe, Apple is currently considering an investigation. it is learned, Adobe in its complaint that Apple prohibits developers use Adobe products to develop the iPhone and iPad application, it is a competition in the strangling. Adobe’s complaint has triggered a U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, the discussion between, to decide whether the face of the case by the department to investigate. Sources said the two departments have not yet decided whether to investigate.

Since April 3 this year on sale, Apple iPad tablet PCs were sold in 27 days, 100 million. iPhone, sales in the last quarter more than double from last year. The world’s 20 largest mobile phone maker, not only apples, the other company’s products are used Flash.

Industry believes that the dispute between Apple and Adobe will not soon subside. Adobe will take measures to counter Apple to defend their own business.

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With iPad, users can access the digital books, multimedia, and Internet. While the e-reader, users can only read digital books, “says Senior Analyst, iSuppli Corp., Michael Yang. although prey iPad, iSuppli asserted, the e-reader is not going to die soon. iSuppli estimates that global sales volume of e-reader will continue to rise an average 39.6% per year from 2009 until 2014.

iSuppli found that global sales volume of e-reader on the 2009 yet to reach five million units. however, due to the volume of global e-reader sales continue to increase, iSuppli believes the e-reader a global market will reach 26.5 million units in 2014. however, iSuppli warned that double-digit growth achieved by the e-reader market globally in 2009 until 2014 is not healthy growth.

iSuppli said the growth was driven by price cuts erode profit at risk of large producers. iSuppli noted, the e-reader is a product that demands a very high production costs because it does not use traditional displays such as LCD (liquid crystal display), but the electronic ink display which produced E-Ink Corp.. the producers chose the e-reader display for E-Ink E-Ink display does not emit light like LCD.

As a result, the e-reader users can read digital text in a more natural, such as when reading text printed on plain paper. “With E-Ink display, e-reader not only becomes much more expensive than when using the LCD. therefore, E-Ink display is also not capable of displaying colors as bright and as sharp as LCD. Originally intended as an advantage, E-Ink display at this time precisely to the weakness of the e-reader, “said Yang.

If you do not want to bother by bigger losses, iSuppli suggests, the e-reader manufacturers should switch from electronic ink and replace the e-reader display with LCD. With LCD displays, iSuppli rate, the producer of the e-reader will be able to also offer additional features such as multimedia. iSuppli noted, the e-reader manufacturers who first cut is the price of Barnes & Noble inc.

In June 2010, the price of the e-reader production Barnes & Noble, the Nook, decreased to EUR-139 per unit, from USD199 per unit. after that, Amazon.com inc. was followed. Still in June 2010, Amazon cut the price of Kindle 2 from USD259 to USD189 per unit per unit. not enough to cut the price of second Kindle, Amazon Kindle DX also cut the price to USD379 per unit, from USD489 per unit.

Looking at Barnes & Noble and Amazon e-reader to cut the price of each, Sony Corp. did not want to catch. therefore, Sony cut the price of three flagship e-reader. Daily Edition Reader price fell $ 50 to USD300 per unit, Touch Edition Reader price fell $ 30 to USD170 per unit, and the Pocket Edition Reader price fell $ 20 to USD150 per unit. iSuppli rate, price cuts undertaken by the producer’s e-reader will be able to increase sales volume.

However, iSuppli asserted, that growth will only happen in the short term. “In the long run, the e-reader will not be able to resist the iPad. Due to the presence iPad, an e-reader makers are also threatened a big loss because the e-reader profit margins are now running low. With such a low price, the manufacturer of the e-reader will only be able to cover production costs, “said Principal Analyst, iSuppli Corp. William Kidd.

When the volume of inflamed e-Reader producers, noted iSuppli, global sales volume exceeded estimates iPad shot up. In April 2010, iSuppli estimates that global sales volume iPad in 2010 will reach 7.1 million units. however, because Apple was able to sell three units also iPad in just 80 days after first launching iPad in the United States on April 3, 2010, iSuppli is now forced to revise up the global sales forecasts for 2010 iPad.

ISuppli is the latest estimate of global sales volume iPad in 2010 will reach at least 12.9 million units. “Apple has boosted production volumes iPad. therefore, iSuppli had to publish this revision, “said iSuppli Corp. Director, Monitor Research Rhoda Alexander. iSuppli asserted, how many million units are able to produce any Apple iPad in every month, then the tablets will still be sold.

However, iSuppli found, iPad production capacity will remain limited in 2010 due to limited supply of components, especially the LCD panel and NAND type flash memory. “At present, the main obstacle iPad global sales volume growth in 2010 is production, not demand. Apple iPad production was tightly controlled to maintain the quality so that can not use any components from new suppliers, “said Alexander.

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It seems that Apple might currently be testing FaceTime for the next incarnation of the iPad, which as has been previously rumoured, could well come with a front-facing camera.

This rumour stems from an image which has been published on the 9 to 5 Mac website, which is purported to be a snap of next-gen iPad firmware being tested with a “Video Calls Debugging” option clearly shown.

This wouldn’t be a surprising move, given that the iPod Touch has just been given the front camera and FaceTime treatment, despite doubts from some who thought Apple wouldn’t make that move.

The question is, could this new scheme of things be gracing the 7 inch iPad which is also rumoured to be coming before the end of the year? That would kind of make sense, as the more compact model would be easier to hold up for a length of time while video calling.

The camera issue certainly has to be high on Apple’s priority list, we would imagine, given that the rival tablets which are soon to flood onto the market generally offer a built-in camera, if not two.

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Today: Analysts have mixed reports on two of Apple’s newest products. Google speeds up its search results. Oracle is paying mark Hurd nearly $1 million a year, plus a bonus of up to $10 million.

Apple — the Cupertino maker of Mac computers and “i” devices — is losing sales because of the antenna design on the iPhone 4, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

According to a Bloomberg News report today, Munster surveyed 258 phone users in the Minneapolis area. According to his analysis, two-thirds of the phone buyers are aware of

the antenna design and 20 percent said it affected their decision whether to buy the phone.

Apple, you might recall, offered free bumpers to early iPhone 4 buyers in response to reports of signal-strength problem.

More Apple: the company’s stock, though, surged today. According to Bloomberg, brokerage UBS raised its estimate for Apple’s profit and share price.

According to Forbes’ Velocity blog, UBS analyst Maynard Um said he expects Apple to sell 28 million iPads in 2011. However, Um said, iPad sales are cutting sharply into PC sales. “It appears the iPad is adversely

impacting the PC industry, specifically notebook PCs,” Um wrote, according to Forbes.

Apple shares closed at $262.92, up $5.11, or 2 percent.

More big valley stocks: UBS, meanwhile, downgraded its ratings on Palo Alto computer titan Hewlett-Packard and Santa Clara chip behemoth Intel — both Dow components and among Silicon Valley’s biggest companies.

HP dropped $1.11, or 2.8 percent, to $38.81. Intel lost 22 cents, or 1.2

percent, to close at $17.90. (As always, there’s more on stocks today below.)

Mountain View Internet juggernaut Google is speeding up its search results: at an event in San Francisco, the company revealed its new Google Instant search service — which starts offering results even before you’ve finished your search query.

“Google Instant is search-before-you-type,” Marissa Meyer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, explained today on the company’s official blog. “Instant takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real time for those predictions — yielding a smarter and faster search that is interactive, predictive and powerful.”

We tested Google Instant today on the company’s Chrome browser. Before we could finish typing “sili,” Google delivered a full page of search results for “silicon valley.” (The Wikipedia entry for “Silicon Valley” was at the top of the page, followed by our own SiliconValley.com tech news site.)

Google estimates the faster search will save its users two to five seconds per query. the company will be rolling out Google Instant for Google.com searchers who use the latest version of the Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer browsers.

Hurd’s Oracle pay deal

Oracle — the Redwood City software giant that has grown in recent years through a series of multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including this year’s $7.4 billion buyout of Sun Microsystems — today detailed the pay package for new Co-president mark Hurd.

At Oracle, the former HP CEO will make $950,000 a year, plus a bonus of as much as $10 million for the 2011 fiscal year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Hurd was initially granted options to buy 10 million shares of Oracle stock. Over the next five years, he’ll get an additional 5 million options a year. all the options will vest at 25 percent a year beginning one year from the grant date.

“As the former chief executive officer of HP and NCR, mr. Hurd brings to the board firsthand experience in successfully leading and managing large, complex global sales, support and consulting organizations in the technology industry,” Oracle said in a separate SEC filing nominating Hurd to its board of directors. “Mr. Hurd’s hardware experience is particularly important to us given our recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.”

HP versus Oracle: Yesterday, you might recall, HP sued Hurd, seeking to stop him from taking the job at Oracle. An HP statement said the suit was necessary “to protect HP’s trade secrets and confidential information.”

In the afternoon, Oracle responded to HP’s suit. “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” CEO Larry Ellison said in a statement.

“By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders and employees,” Ellison said. “The HP board is making it virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together in the IT marketplace.”

Kno wins $46M from Andreessen, others

Kno, a Santa Clara startup in the digital textbook market, has won $46 million in equity and debt financing in a round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

“We are strong believers in the disruption of untapped markets and education is a prime example of a sector in need of digital innovation,” Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and a member of Kno’s board of directors, said in a statement.

Kno is developing a foldout tablet device with two touch-screen displays. the startup was founded in 2009 by Osman Rashid, a co-founder of online textbook rental pioneer Chegg, and Babur Habib, who has worked as a chip designer at Intel and Phillips Semiconductors.

Silicon Valley Bank and TriplePoint Capital also participated in this round of funding. According to TechCrunch, the latest funding round for Kno brings total investment in the startup to $55.4 million.

Silicon Valley tech stocks

Up: Apple, Google, Cisco Systems, VMware, eBay, Gilead Sciences, Yahoo.

Down: Oracle, Intel, HP.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: up 19.98, or 0.9 percent, to 2,228.87.

The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: up 46.32, or 0.4 percent, to 10,387.01.

And the widely watched Standard & Poor’s 500 index: up 7.03, or 0.6 percent, to 1,098.87.

Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Frank Russell at 408-920-5876. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercspike.

With the introduction of the fourth-gen iPod Touch and a new $99 set-top box, Apple is offering TV show rentals for the first time. At the time of this review, rental content is limited to a selection of shows from Fox and ABC, but all content is priced at an attractive 99 cents per episode. Rented TV shows have a built-in expiration of 48 hours, once a show playback has started, or 30 days total, even if the show is never played. by comparison, rented movies have a stricter rental window of 24 hours once playback is initiated, or 30 days if unwatched.

As far as music and video services beyond iTunes are concerned, the iPod Touch is much more flexible than iPods in the past. any unprotected MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, or WAV audio file can be transferred to the Touch without hassle, and DRM-protected Audible audiobook files will work, as well. If you have a collection filled with unprotected WMA music files, Apple’s iTunes software can take care of transcoding them into a compatible format. If you’re dealing with a bunch of DRM-protected WMA files (or more-boutique files, such as Ogg Vorbis or FLAC), you’re just out of luck. that said, if your protected WMA files are the result of a PC-only music subscription service, such as Rhapsody or Napster, it is now possible to stream and sometimes store these files using compatible apps.

The same situation is more or less true for video compatibility as well. A handful of popular unprotected video types, such as H.264 and MPEG-4, are supported in a variety of versions (MOV, MP4, M4V) and resolutions. some files types, such as AVI, DivX, and XviD, can be made compatible using third-party apps. And some video services, such as YouTube, Netflix, and others, can be used to stream content by way of apps or the included Safari Web browser. that said, if you’re trying to sync a DRM-protected WMA file you downloaded from Amazon or CinemaNow, you’re probably out of luck.

FaceTime
The first icon you’ll see on the main menu of the iPod Touch is a new app labeled FaceTime. It’s a feature that has made its way over from the iPhone that allows you to place or receive free, real-time video calls over Wi-Fi. FaceTime calls can work from iPhone to iPhone, Touch to Touch, or between Touch and iPhone owners.

FaceTime calls on the iPod Touch perform just as well as they do on the iPhone, but the mechanics are a little different. Because iPods don’t have phone numbers attached to them, iPod Touch users need to set up their account on the device and associate it with an e-mail address. A contact list appears within FaceTime that you can add to and edit. To make an outgoing FaceTime call on an iPod Touch, you pick a contact from your list and select whether to place the call to the contact’s phone number or e-mail address. provided that the person receiving the call has a compatible iPhone or a fourth-gen iPod Touch connected to Wi-Fi, the call should go through without a hitch.

Once connected, the front-facing camera kicks in and you can both see and hear the person you’re calling, and vice versa. As on the iPhone 4, there’s an onscreen button for switching between rear camera and front-facing camera. You can also tap the home button to disable the video feed and multitask on the iPod Touch while maintaining the voice call.

All in all, FaceTime is a cool feature. During our limited initial tests, we noticed very little latency in the FaceTime audio and video stream. The integrated microphone and speaker on the fourth-gen Touch make it possible to speak and hear your conversations without having to plug in a headset or mic adapter. The feature does work with headphones, however. If you plug in the basic earbuds included with the Touch, audio is routed to the headphones and the internal speaker gets disabled, but the microphone still works. If you plug in a headset with a compatible microphone (such as Apple’s in-ear headphones), then the headset will handle everything. Unfortunately, as with the iPhone, wireless Bluetooth headsets will not work with FaceTime calls. We’re not complaining, though, since the feature is free, well-executed, and 99 percent awesome.

iOS
So far we’ve been focusing this review mostly on the improvements Apple has made to the hardware and capabilities of the fourth-generation iPod Touch. The elephant in the room is all of the existing and continually improving capabilities of Apple’s iOS platform (formerly known as iPhone OS).

Core features, such as e-mail, the Safari Web browser, Maps, the YouTube viewer, photos, calendar, and notes, are still the heart of the device. The installed features are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the available capabilities. An iTunes App Store, accessible from the computer or directly from the iPod Touch, lets you download and install thousands of applications, including Internet radio players, games, voice recorders, social-networking tools, and much more.

The recent updates made in iOS4, such as home screen folders, threaded e-mails, and app multitasking, address most of the criticisms we’ve made of the device over the years. for more information on the updated capabilities of Apple’s iOS, read CNET’s full review of Apple iOS 4.

Performance
Apple rates the battery life of the fourth-generation iPod touch at 40 hours of audio playback or 7 hours of video, which is an improvement over the previous generation’s estimates of 30 hours of audio playback and 6 hours of video. We’ll publish our official CNET test results once they’re available. If history is any indication, though, our tests have shown that Apple has underestimated battery performance for the past three generations of iPod Touch.

That said, as capabilities and uses of the iPod Touch continue to branch out into gaming and communication, audio and video performance may not be the best measure of real-world battery endurance. In our experience, 3D gaming tends to drain battery life the fastest. taking measures such as disabling audio EQ, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi can help to save battery life, as will lowering screen brightness.

Sound quality for the latest iPod Touch is just fine, and right in line with previous models. Apple could always do better on this front by offering custom EQ or a suite of audio enhancement settings beyond the stock EQ presets, but we’re not holding our breath. provided that you upgrade your headphones from the universally loathed stock white earbuds that come included, you should be able to coax a great audio experience from the iPod Touch.

As of iOS 4.1, the iPod Touch now adds full AVRCP support to its existing Bluetooth 2.1 feature, allowing users to pause and skip songs or adjust volume via Bluetooth remote controls (when available). Pairing the iPod Touch with Bluetooth accessories such as stereo headsets, speaker systems, or car stereos is quite simple, and a record of previously paired devices is stored in the iPod’s Settings menu. The audio quality and wireless range (about 30 feet) using Bluetooth is about what you’d expect from most portable Bluetooth devices, and we’re happy to see that the audio from video playback and apps are transmitted over Bluetooth just as easily as music playback. It’s worth noting, though, that keeping Bluetooth active on the iPod Touch will take a toll on its battery life.

Video quality on Apple’s Retina display is outstanding. Throw on some rented TV shows, a feature film, or a high-end video game, and the experience is so fluid and crisp, it’s hard to believe. Last year, we were a little iffy recommending the iPod Touch video experience over the OLED screen loveliness of the Microsoft Zune HD. At this point, though, we think it’s safe to say that anyone who can meet or beat Apple’s current display technology will still have a tough time matching Apple on the kind of graphically rich video and gaming content that can make those pixels sing.

The iTunes factor
If you’re considering buying an iPod for the first time, consider that Apple’s iTunes software is a required installation for your computer. The software is free and available for both Mac and Windows computers, and we encourage potential iPod owners to become familiar with the software ahead of time to ensure that it works well for you and your computer. To learn more about iTunes, we recommend checking out Download.com’s latest review and any user feedback associated with it.

Final thoughts
The Apple iPod Touch is arguably the last shot fired in the war of portable media players. There’s simply no catching up to it in terms of quality and capabilities. In fact, we sometimes joke around at CNET about how many product categories have been unintentionally maimed by the Touch, including Internet radios, PDAs, portable gaming devices, and GPS receivers.

In fact, as the scope and power of the Touch’s capabilities continues to expand, it may have a role yet to play in the war of tablet computers. Apple already has an early lead in this space with the iPad, which shares nearly all of the capabilities of the Touch, only on a considerably larger screen. To not consider the Touch as a tablet computer based on its smaller screen size seems a little arbitrary, especially as Android-based contenders from Dell, Archos, Samsung, and others are exploring similar forms.

Time will tell how consumers will define the nascent tablet computer category, but don’t be surprised if the iPod Touch starts to find itself taking on new rivals beyond the shrinking world of portable media players.

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Steve Jobs wasn’t kidding when he called the iPod Touch the “iPhone without a phone.” We have been calling it that for years, of course, but with each iteration the two iOS devices get closer and closer in terms of features. now a vibrating alert has been added to the the Touch. The first iPod Touch was a chunky slab of metal and glass, and didn’t even come with a hardware volume-control. as the product-line has evolved, Apple has added not only a volume switch but a speaker (the latest version has a proper speaker, not the tinny thing hidden in the headphone socket like last year’s model), a pair of cameras, a gyroscope and a microphone. The only the Touch now lacks are the cellular radio, the GPS and the mute-switch on the side

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