Archive for September, 2008
Adobe Creative Suite 4 launches next week, could only help earnings
September 17th, 2008 | 
Author: It looks like Adobe may have over-extended themselves with all the buyouts of those little companies. Lightroom has been a big head with photographers, but it looks like Adobe may have taken on some debt they might be having a hard time managing.
I have no doubt Adobe will come through this, but it’s troubling to see them in such a vulnerable position.
While developers are scrambling to meet deadlines, on the other end of the building, Adobe executives are applauding their company’s financial performance, with revenue for its fiscal third quarter ending last month coming in at $1 million above the high side of projections, at $887.2 million — a gain of 4% over the previous year’s third quarter.Behind the applause, though, were some negative signs: Operating income was down about 14% annually, to $219 million. The bad economy was not to blame here: Operating expenses were generally higher — by about 10% annually — margins (GAAP) declined by about 5% in the last year to 24.7%, and the balance sheet shows a $350 million debt maturity during the quarter.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 launches next week, could only help earnings
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Yes Virginia, there is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Impressive features all the way around.
Canon has ended months of speculation by confirming the upcoming launch of the EOS 5D Mark II, a 21.1-million-pixel full frame digital SLR featuring a High Definition (1080×1920 pixel) video mode.
The 5D Mark II appears to represent a marked improvement over its predecessor.
Due to Overwhelming Demand, Acronis Takes Away Their Coupon
What do you do when everyone posts your coupon code to the web and buys your product for a discounted price? You take it down.
The coupon code that Acronis put up for True Image, which was supposed to last for another week, has been discontinued already. Apparently everyone loves a good deal and bought their software. If you did a search for ATIH80 it showed up everywhere. I mean everywhere. People were talking about it on hundreds of forums and I saw multiple posts of people buying multiple copies to use on every machine they had. Hell, I even bought two copies because the price was so good.
I guess Acronis was making too much money because the code no longer works. Since Friday, thousands of users have been purchasing their program, but I guess they don’t want that anymore.
Oh well, all good things must come to an end. This has got to be one of the shortest-lived coupon codes I’ve ever seen. It’s odd a company would pull a coupon because too many people were using it.
Well it’s still a kick ass program, so I’m glad I managed to grab a copy before they took their toys and went home.