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Acrobat innovations, Al-jazeera by SMS, megapixel photo phones
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 07:19:56 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: kim brooks wei <kimi () kimbwei com> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 01:46:51 -0400 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Acrobat innovations, Al-jazeera by SMS, megapixel photo phones Some radical changes are coming to the world of digitial news and document delivery. 3 items which especially attracted my attention are: Adobe releasing new Acrobat suite which is compatible with minimal-RAM devices Al-Jazeera headlines now delivered via SMS Camera phones with resolution of print quality Acrobat Reader gets a name change as new Acrobat features extend platform and interactivity options for pdf docs Official press release http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200304/040703Acrobat Family.html In the next version of the popular Adobe pdf creation program (v6.0) the viewer will be known as Adobe Reader (instead of Acrobat Reader. Not only the face of reader will be new. The new suite of Acrobat products will allow web browsers to render pdf documents in HTML format when the page being viewed is XML compatible. PDF docs will also be able to display within its native content any sections of web pages which are XML compatible. Currently, XML in tandem with CSS style sheets and PHP database query strings make for smaller web-page coding (translates to faster-loading) which is more agile and most importantly - easily scalable in size. Think: PDAs will soon readily be formatted for PDA, Web TV and even game console viewing. Al-Jazeera offers updates on the Iraq war via SMS http://mobile.aljazeera.net/ DoCoMo launching megapixel photo-phones http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2003/03/07/144916.html This year, DoCoMo will bring to market "megapixel" photo phones this year with picture quality good enough to make prints" (and transmit them as well. Of course, we USans won't have the option of sending photos this size by phone, as our wireless phone networks aren't fast enough (too many standards, not enough collaboration on network development). -- Kim Brooks Wei www.kimbwei.com P O Box 626 Fair Lawn NJ 07410 V 201.475.1854 mailto:kimi () kimbwei com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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