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January 10th 2012 - 2012 New Year has come up with a new start. To celebrate this world’s festival, Simpo Technologies decide to extend the discounts as gifts for users, so, you could also earn up to 50% bonus in the 2012’s New Year:http://www.simpopdf.com/promotion/merry-christmas-2011.html.

To refresh your memories of 2011 Christmas’s special offer, below list all the details of 2012 New Year’s gifts – three kinds of discount and you could earn up to 50% bonus.

1: 50% Off bonus

This is the biggest bonus and you could save up to 50% off. Simpo PDF Deluxe Pack contains 4 PDF conversion tools to help you deal with PDF documents: you could use PDF Converter Ultimate to convert PDF to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Text, Images and HTML; on the contrary, PDF Creator Pro helps tocreate PDF from office, images and HTML websites; you could also combine PDF files into one and split a PDF into separated PDFs with PDF Merge & Split; if you want to remove password from PDF, you can count on PDF Password Remover.

With this PDF Deluxe Pack, you could easily create, convert, merge or split PDF files; now it’s only $64.9for 2011 Christmas and 2012 New Year’s special offer.

2: 30% Off bonus

If you don’t want above multi-function PDF Deluxe Pack, you could try some smaller PDF bundles, which also save you up to 30% off.

The first bundle: PDF to Word + PDF Creator Pro + PDF Merge & Split. Though it’s a small, this PDF bundle could fulfill you needs to create PDF, combine PDFs and split PDF; of course, if you want to edit PDF in Word, it helps, too.

The second bundle: PDF to PowerPoint + PDF Creator Pro + PDF Merge & Split. It’s a bit different from the first one, and it’s much more useful when you need to convert PDF back to PowerPoint for presentation sharing or adding animation, you won’t miss this bundle.

The third bundle: PDF to Word for Mac + PDF to PowerPoint for Mac. We won’t forget the Mac users. This Mac PDF bundle is for you to convert PDF to Word/PowerPoint on Mac OS X.

3: 20% Off bonus

Even if you don’t want to purchase the PDF Deluxe Pack or PDF bundle, you could save up to 20% off for each Simpo product.

Anyway, whichever you buy from Simpo Tech, you could save money for the 2011 Christmas and 2012 New Year, don’t miss this good chance!

About Simpo Technologies
Founded in the year of 2008, Simpo Technologies is an award-winning supplier in the field of PDF conversion and PDF creation software. Though as a young company, Simpo Tech. is recognized by the world as the good quality of PDF products.
At Simpo Tech., we strive to give customers, especially to small business the BEST PDF solution. All the members of Simpo Tech. are working to deliver high quality and easy-to-use software and service to help customers in worldwide to make business easier.

Contact:

http://www.simpopdf.com

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According to a new released research from the Indernational Data Cooperation (IDC) Worldwide  Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker this month, Apple’s iPad still kept the domiated position in tablet market in the passed third quarter, but rivals from Amazon and Barnes & Noble are expected to light up the fourth quarter.

The data from IDC’s reseach indicates that Apple shipped 11.1 million units in the Q3, up from 9.3m in the second quarter; but the market share is down from Q2’s 63.3%  to 61.5%. And this number shows that the company’s iPad continued to drive worldwide media tablet market in the third quarter.

But the third quarter is not strong for anyindividual Android market. SamSung’s tablet is next, but far less than iPad, 5.6% market share; HP’s TouchPad, which entered and left the market in Q3, listed in the third position; the company shipped 903,354 units and grabbed a 5% share of the worldwide market; After IDC updated its taxonomy to move LCD-based devices such as Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color into the media tablet category, Barnes & Noble shipped 805,458 units to achieve the number four spot with a 4.5% market share. ASUS rounded out the top five with a 4% share.

Though the Android is not strong in the third quarter and market share is down to 32.4% from Q2’s 33.2%, IDC expects Android to make dramatic share gains in the fourth quarter growing to 40.3%. Why IDC’s experts are so optimistic in Android market? They think that Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which was released in the early Q3, will contribute to the increase of Android market share.

“Amazon and Barnes & Noble are shaking up the media tablet market, and their success helps prove that there is an appetite for media tablets beyond Apple’s iPad.” Said Tom Mainelli, research director “That said, I fully expect Apple to have its best-ever quarter in 4Q11, and in 2012 I think we’ll see Apple’s product begin to gain more traction outside of the consumer market, specifically with enterprise and education markets.”

Mainelli suggested that there will be wider changes in 2012 as the iPad begins to enter newer mar: “I think we’ll see Apple’s product begin to gain more traction outside of the consumer market, specifically with enterprise and education markets.”

Jennifer Song, research analyst at IDC, explained: “Apple’s larger portfolio of tablet-specific apps, upcoming iPad versions, and growing physical store presence in key emerging markets like Asia/Pacific will help maintain its global leadership. However, an improving Android OS experience and lower competitor pricing in an environment with worldwide economic concerns should help Android to increase its market share.”

Let’s put aside this research, which tablet are you using? And if you are planning to get one, which will be your choice? iPad or Kindle Fire? Please leave comment to share your opinions.

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Dec. 19th, 2011 – As 2011 Christmas is approaching, Simpo Technologies starts a series of discount promotions for the coming Christmas: http://www.simpopdf.com/promotion/merry-christmas-2011.html. There are three types of discount to fulfill your specific need.

First: 50% Off

This is really a big deal. You could save up to 50% off to get a PDF Deluxe Pack, which includes a 6-In-1PDF converter, a professional PDF creator, a combined PDF merger splitter and a PDF Password Remover. With this deluxe pack, you could easily create PDF from other file formats with PDF creatorand convert PDF to other file formats with PDF converter; of course, you also can effortlessly combine many PDF documents together into one or split a PDF into numberous separated PDFs with PDF Merge & Split; and when you want to remove PDF restrictions of non-copying, non-printing, non-editing, you could use PDF password remover.

And It’s only $64.9 for Christmas’ special offer.

Second: 30% Off

In order to meet kinds of specific needs, Simpo Technologies also provide this type of deal: 30% off for three PDF bundles.

A: PDF to Word + PDF Creator Pro + PDF Merge & Split. It’s really helpful to manage PDF files with this simple PDF bundle, you could easily create PDF with PDF creator Pro, merge many PDF files and split a PDF with PDF Merge & Split, and when you want to edit PDF in Word, just use the Simpo PDF to Wordto convert the PDF files to Word format for editing.

B: PDF to PowerPoint + PDF Creator Pro + PDF Merge & Split. If you need to convert PDF to PowerPoint for presentation sharing, this bundle would be a good choice. The best is the PDF Deluxe Pack, because the 6-in-1 PDF converter also helps to convert PDF to PowerPoint. And you also could create PDF, combine PDF files and split PDF if you interested in this PDF bundle.

C: PDF to Word for Mac + PDF to PowerPoint for Mac. This is especially for Mac users. You could download the two excellent Mac PDF converters when you need to convert PDF to Word or PDF to PowerPoint on your Mac OS X.

Third: 20% Off

Every single Simpo product is 20% off. If you want more PDF tools from Simpo Technologies but find it not listed in the PDF Deluxe Pack and the three PDF bundles, you could purchase a individual PDF tool.

Last but not least

Simpo Technologies will occasionally hold giveaways on the official Facebook Fan page:http://www.facebook.com/SimpoPDF and you could like the page to be fans to get free PDF tools from Simpo Tech.

About Simpo Technologies
Founded in the year of 2008, Simpo Technologies is an award-winning supplier in the field of PDF conversion and PDF creation software. Though as a young company, Simpo Tech. is recognized by the world as the good quality of PDF products.
At Simpo Tech., we strive to give customers, especially to small business the BEST PDF solution. All the members of Simpo Tech. are working to deliver high quality and easy-to-use software and service to help customers in worldwide to make business easier.

Contact:

http://www.simpopdf.com

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Last Thursay, Apple released its App Store Rewind 2011, lists the best and most popular apps of the year. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of each category. This year the Rewind separated iPhone and iPad apps, with some of the apps overlapping.

The iPhone app of the year was Burbn’s photo sharing app Instagram, while the honors for the iPhone game of the year went to Tiny Tower. In iPad, Apple ranked Snapseed as the tops, with Dead Space for iPad coming in as its favorite game.

In the music category, Adele garnered the top spot for her album 21 and The Foo Fighters Wasting Light is album of the year. The song of the year was Foster the People’s school shooting lament Pumped Up Kicks. Breakthrough artist went to Nicki Minaj.

In Books, Apple board member Al Gore took the top spot with Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.

There are many selections in the Movie category, from best Blockbuster to best Comedy, to best Indie, to best romance.  There are also a ton of sub-categories including most debated, reboot of the year and sweetest revenge.

How do you think of this top list? Are your favorite apps in the list? Please leave a comment if you have different opinion with Apple staff.

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Just days ago, I wrote a post about the news that Microsoft would revail more details about Windows app store on this Tuesday.

And now the details are introduced to the public on yesterday’s preview event, you could access to this even video to view detail information.

At the same time, the technology giant also promised a better opportunity for develpers to attract them to develop greate apps in the store.

Windows Web Services VP Antoine Leblond said, “We’re going to give you a bigger bite of the apple,”  promising a better return than any other app store (actually Apple’s app store, I think) for developers. “It’s the biggest and most significant developer opportunity ever,” he added.

Microsoft is also planning to localize the Windows Store in all the languages that Windows is localized in, around 100 different languages. Below is a demo of the Chinese store, with an app from Renren that uses various touch gestures.

The software maker will also provide payment options for 230 markets and the top 40 markets will have local pricing. . “We’re going to take a different approach,” said Leblond. Developers can take advantage of in-app purchases and trial apps features but they won’t be forced to. Microsoft will take 30% of app revenue until an app makes $25,000. The software maker will then take just 20% of sales after the $25,000 limit.

This is really a big attraction to most developers, isn’t it? And if you’re a software or games developer, will you give it a try?

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News from Winrumors show that, Microsoft is planning to reveal details on its Windows Store plans for Windows 8 in a briefing on Tuesday next week.

The software giant has invited a number of press, analysts and developers to a two-hour preview event in San Francisco on December 6. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports that the event is entitled “Windows Store Preview” and looks set to provide developers with key information about the company’s plans in Windows 8.

Microsoft previously detailed its Windows Store efforts at its Build conference earilier this year in mid-September. The Windows Store is a Metro style application. The application is built on the same WinRT APIs that developers can use themselves across their Windows 8 Metro apps. Windows Store takes advantage of HTML5 and JavaScript to provide end users with a portal for secure, tested applications. All applications include a brief overview, full detail page and reviews. The overview section will indicate the supported platform for the application (x86/64/ARM).

Trying to outdo Apple’s Mac App store, the Windows Store will let users download free trial copies of Metro-style apps to check out for a limited time. So developers won’t have to cook up both paid and “lite” versions of their applications. Beyond that, both free and paid apps would be available. Microsoft will also run security checks and other tests to certify each app.

One of the more interesting aspects of the Store is the ability for websites to advertise their Windows 8 Metro application for download on their own site. Websites with an application will include a button for end users to launch or download the application. The launch surface will push the user straight into the Metro Windows Store experience and offer them the ability to download or trial the application. If the application is already installed then it will simply work as a launch surface for the existing app.

What do you think of Windows 8 app store? You could share your opinion with comments.

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Smartphones have become such an important part of our lives that they’ve become more than accessories. In fact, many people sleep with their smartphones, and nobody likes to hear about someone insulting their bedmate.

iPhone is absolutely the most popular smartphone in the world, though Android is undeniably winning the market share battle. So which is better?

Here are some quotes from Business Insider to show what some tech gurus, entrepreneurs and CEOs think of iPhone and Android.

“I think both platforms are great — I use both every single day — but for my primary phone I use a Galaxy Nexus. Why? Because while iOS might be more elegant, easy-to-use, and have a better overall selection of apps, Android does a better job at the things I care about most, like Gmail and Google Voice, plus I can install aftermarket keyboards like SwiftKey which have greatly improved my typing speed. Ultimately each person has their own mix of what’s important to them, and what’s great about the gadget space now is that we have so much choice and we can all find what’s right for us (this is why we started gdgt, actually).”

Alex Godin, tech entrepreneur and founder of Dispatch.io

“Two years ago I switched from the iPhone to Android. After a little while I’m back on a Sprint iPhone 4S. The simplicity and ease of use was just hard to beat. Android tries to do too many things and doesn’t do any of them well. We need both — art galleries and workshops.  Both are creative, but each serves different roles.  And you must support and understand both to succeed in a technology world.”

What do you think? Which is better and which are you using now? Will you change the one you are using to the other? Welcome to share your opinions.

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A report from IBM Smarter Commerce Survey issued on Saturday that  indicated, double digit increases in online sales Thanksgiving Day (up 39.3% from 2010) and Black Friday (up 24.3%) and a 200% increase in purchases made on mobile devices (from 3.2% in 2010 to 9.8% this year).

Below are some figures quoted from the survey:

• The Apple Shopper: Mobile shopping was led by Apple, with the iPhone and iPad ranking one and two for consumers shopping on mobile devices (5.4 percent and 4.8 percent respectively). Android came in third at 4.1 percent. Collectively iPhone and iPad accounted for 10.2 percent of all online retail traffic on Black Friday.
• The iPad Factor: Shoppers using the iPad led to more retail purchases more often per visit than other mobile devices with conversion rates reaching 4.6 percent compared to 2.8 percent for overall mobile devices.
• Surgical Shopping Goes Mobile: Mobile shoppers demonstrated a laser focus that surpassed that of other online shoppers with a 41.3 percent bounce rate on mobile devices versus online shopping rates of 33.1 percent.
• The Social Influence: Shoppers referred from Social Networks generated 0.53 percent of all online sales on Black Friday. Facebook led the pack, accounting for 75 percent of all traffic from social networks.

The relatively weak showing by devices running Google’s Android, despite a market share that dwarf’s Apple’s iOS, is consistent with earlier studies that found Android users spending less time online and far less money on apps.

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Many reports indicate that Apple will finally unveiling their newly renovated 5th Avenue Apple NYC store – the Glass Cube on Friday, November 4th. For preparing, Apple will temporarily close its flagship Fifth Ave retail store in New York on Thursday evening.

Apple began work on the $6.6 million renovation back in June. Since then, the 5th Avenue Store has been surrounded by barriers and the store has remained open as the construction has continued. The redesign involves replacing the cube’s 90 glass panels with only 15 larger ones. The new design is rendered artistically above.

In September, the company began slowly removing the temporary structure surrounding the cube. Workers began taking off the white covering along the bottom section of the cube on Thursday in preparation for the unveiling.

The store opened in May 2006 and has since become a popular destination for tourists.

A November 4th unveiling falls in line with the original permits which estimated “early November” as a possible completion date. If the grand unveiling is indeed taking place this Friday, we expect Apple will make an announcement this week to inform the press.

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In spite of its problems on batteries, Apple yesterday announced that the hot selling smart phone – iPhone 4s will be available in Hong Kong, South Korea and 13 additional countries on next Friday, November 11. The 13 additional countries are Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala,  Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal and Romania. Now, the new smart phone from Apple will be available in countries in Asia, Central America and Europe.

Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone 4S beginning on this Friday, November 4. But the price of the new iPhone 4s isn’t published on Hong Kong Apple’s official website.

Below is the original press from Apple.

“Pre-Orders Begin November 4

CUPERTINO, California—November 1, 2011—Apple® today announced that iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, will be available in Hong Kong, South Korea and 13 additional countries on Friday, November 11. Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone 4S beginning on Friday, November 4.*

iPhone 4S is packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

Beginning Friday, November 11, iPhone 4S will be available in Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania and South Korea. iPhone 4S is available today in 29 countries around the world and will be available in more than 70 countries by the end of the year.

iPhone 4S comes in either black or white for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model, $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the new 64GB model.** iPhone 4S is sold through the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 4 is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 3GS is available for free with a two year contract from participating carriers.

*Pre-orders not available in Albania, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malta, Montenegro and Panama.

**Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year rate plan, sold separately.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.”

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