“A Slingbox is the perfect accessory to an Android tablet. When combined with SlingPlayer, now anyone with an Android device can enjoy a beautiful, personalized TV experience anywhere in the world,” said Raman Venkatachar, General Manager and head of operations at Sling Media. “With the Android market fast catching up, we feel this new state-of-the-art software will be a very significant value-addition to the user experience.”

When connected to a Slingbox 120 or PRO-HD, the award-winning SlingPlayer software makes it easy to watch your home TV on your Android tablet running Android version 3.0 or later. Now Slingbox owners with Android tablets can watch their favourite shows anywhere they have an Internet or cellular connection. They can change channels, watch live programming, and control video sources such as: cable or satellite set-top box and DVR, Telco/IPTV set-top box and DVR, basic cable, digital over-the-air broadcasts (Slingbox PRO-HD only), TiVo, Apple TV and home security cameras. They never have to miss another show or game, no matter where they are. To learn more, visit www.slingbox.com

There are three key areas where this application stands apart from the rest in the market. It offers Robust Streaming Capability delivering the finest video experience. The easy-to-use User Interface   offers an on-screen remote control that looks just like the one at home. Finally, it is Compatible with all Android tablets running versions 3.0 or later.

SlingPlayer for Android Tablets is available now for just Rs.1,477/- from the Android Market. The application can be purchased, downloaded, and installed in minutes. The SlingPlayer application for Android Phones will continue to work in “Compatibility Mode” on tablets at no extra charge. The Android Phone version of the application streams from all Slingboxes, but not at the higher quality resolutions available on tablet devices.

?Since the release of AutoCAD for Mac last year, customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, further validating the need for professional design and engineering software on the Mac platform,? said Amar Hanspal , senior vice president, Autodesk Platform Solutions and Emerging Business. ?Bringing AutoCAD for Mac 2012 & AutoCAD WS to the Mac shows our continued commitment to making design more accessible for an ever-greater number of people to shape the world around them.?

AutoCAD for Mac 2012 software includes familiar AutoCAD capabilities, such as 2D and 3D design tools, and includes 3D free-form modeling capabilities; 3D visualization and rendering; network licensing; advanced customization of the menus; support for LISP and ObjectARX and ObjectDBX applications; and more..

Like the popular AutoCAD WS mobile app Autodesk released last September, AutoCAD WS for Mac is a simple, free* app providing basic, intuitive tools for viewing, editing and sharing designs. Through its synchronous coediting feature, users may also collaborate on designs across multiple platforms ? desktop, mobile and web. By delivering professional design and documentation software native for Mac OS X via the Mac App Store, Autodesk is helping professionals find design software for all their needs.

“Autodesk has done an incredible job bringing their apps to the Mac,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple?s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. ?AutoCAD for Mac has been a huge hit with Mac users and we?re thrilled to see Autodesk offer AutoCAD WS as Mac App Store exclusives.

With support for creating and editing files right within the DWG file format, AutoCAD for Mac provide easier collaboration with suppliers, customers, clients and partners, regardless of platform. Files created in previous versions of AutoCAD easily open in Mac versions of the products, boosting design productivity by reducing time-consuming file translation or cleanup of converted data.

AutoCAD for Mac 2012 is offered free* to students and educators through the Autodesk Education Community, where more than 25 Autodesk software products are already available for download to inspire learning and prepare students for successful careers. Autodesk appreciates the popularity of the Mac platform among students and is providing AutoCAD for Mac so they can build skills through access to the same software that design professionals use every day.

Dozens of new features in Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 allow developers to deliver a new class of gaming and premium video experiences, as well as sophisticated, data-driven applications with back-end systems integration across devices, including the iPhone and iPad viaAIR. AIR native extensions add support for unique device features and native code libraries, empowering developers to freely choose the right mix of Flash, HTML5 and native code to provide powerful user experiences across PCs and devices. Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 will be publicly available in early October. Flash Builder® and Flex, Adobe’s open source framework for building mobile, Web and desktop apps, will offer support for the new features in an upcoming release before the end of the year.

“With this milestone release Adobe pushes the envelope of what is possible on the Web with a typical PC and opens up a new world of immersive, high-performance gaming experiences,” said Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager of Platform, Adobe. “Flash offers the best way for content owners to deliver their most demanding experiences, including games, premium video and sophisticated data-driven apps, to all of their users, while HTML 5 tools such as Adobe Edge and Dreamweaver® are ideal forbuilding interactive Web pages, rich ads, branded microsites and general-purpose mobile applications.”

Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 offer dozens of new features including:
•    Accelerated 2D/3D Graphics: Full hardware-accelerated rendering for 2D and 3D graphics enable 1,000 times faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10 and AIR 2. Developers are able to animate millions of objects with smooth 60 frames per second rendering and deliver console-quality games on Mac OS, Windows and connected televisions. A pre-release brings these same accelerated 2D and 3D capabilities to mobile platforms including Android, Apple iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS. A production release for mobile platforms is expected in the near future. For examples of 3D games for Flash Player, visit www.adobe.com/go/gaming.
•    AIR Native Extensions: With support for thousands of highly-optimized, open-source libraries, developers are able to tap into unique software and hardware capabilities including access to device data, vibration control, magnetometers, light sensors, dual screens, near field communications (NFC) and more. Native extensions also allow developers to more deeply integrate AIR applications with other business software.
•    Captive Runtime: Developers can automatically package AIR 3 with their applications to simplify the installation process on Android, Windows and Mac OS in addition to Apple iOS. Users no longer have to download and update AIR separately on any of these platforms, or BlackBerry Tablet OS, which includes AIR built in. In addition, with the captive runtime option developers can manage version updates to their application independent of general AIR updates by Adobe.
•    Content Protection: Premium video content can now be protected using Adobe Flash Access® 3 across all supported platforms, including new support for mobile platforms.
•    HD Video Quality Across Platforms: Full frame rate HD video can now be displayed within AIR applications on Apple iOS devices using H.264 hardware decoding. Rich applications on televisions are also able to deliver HD video with 7.1 channel surround sound.
•    Rental and Subscriptions Support: With support for Adobe Flash Access and Adobe Pass, content publishers can take advantage of rental and subscription options for more flexible business models and offer TV Everywhere content to more than 80 percent of U.S. pay TV subscribers.
•    Compatibility: 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS and Windows ensures a seamlessexperience with the latest 64-bit browsers.

Flash Player is supported on more than 98 percent of Internet connected PCs today and by the end of 2011, Adobe expects more than 200 million smartphones and tablets including Apple iOS devices to support Flash based applications via Adobe AIR. By the end of 2015, the number of devices that will support Adobe AIR is expected to increase to 1 billion.
Adobe AIR, a superset of Flash Player, enables developers to leverage existing code to create and deliver standalone applications across devices and platforms. Thousands of Flash based applications have already been created and made available on Android Market, iTunes App Store, Samsung SmartTV Store and BlackBerry AppWorld™ today.

“SharePoint adoption is clearly on the rise, with an estimated 100,000 server installations and 200 million Client Access Licenses to-date, yet many businesses still search for organizational structure and management tools needed to take full advantage of this powerful system,” said Tim Mortenson, Worldwide Business Director, Software, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “Kodak’s new software offerings enable users to more easily find, view and work with documents and metadata uploaded to SharePoint from any source, including paper documents, files and records.”

KODAK Document Viewer Software embeds an inline document preview function directly within SharePoint. A visual search function provides full document previews within search results on SharePoint. Document Viewer Software can display document previews in either thumbnail or full page format and users may zoom in and out or fit the document to the width of screen. Document previews are especially fast because Kodak’s viewing software doesn’t need to wait for the entire document to be transmitted and has compatibility with more than 300 file types, allowing users to review virtually any file stored in SharePoint, even if the application associated with the file is not installed on the user’s computer or workstation.

KODAK Scan and View Software supports document scanning and image enhancement directly within SharePoint. The integrated document capture functionality makes it an ideal solution for ad-hoc document scanning to SharePoint and works well with Kodak’s market-leading lineup of document scanners such as the KODAK SCANMATE i1120 Scanner or the KODAK i2400 Scanner. The software also provides support for TWAIN compliant capture devices.

Equally important, Scan and View Software extends the preview and search capabilities of the Document Viewer Software through several additional capabilities that operate seamlessly in SharePoint. An enhanced search function provides users with the ability to search for specific document metadata, yielding pinpointed search results. The software also works to improve collaboration and business workflow process with tools that enable users to annotate, stamp and highlight specific documents. Scan and View Software simplifies the time consuming task of reformatting files, with single-click tools that rearrange and remove pages, and split and merge documents. Users can edit and enhance documents in SharePoint environments with tools such as border removal, page de-skewing, and image cleanup.

KODAK Document Viewer and Scan and View Software support strategic business and IT priorities. Documents used with Document Viewer and Scan and View Software remain in SharePoint environments, creating a consistent and constant audit trail for paper-based documents. To minimize impact on network bandwidth, the document preview function runs completely in a web browser, eliminating the need for large file downloads and system memory for programs and applications. The software programs’ server-based installation also simplifies IT workload and maintenance.

Finally, the new KODAK Document Viewer and Scan and View Software are fully complementary to KODAK Capture Pro Software, which offers functionality that easily goes beyond ad hoc scanning and can automate metadata capture. Capture Pro Software is designed to work seamlessly with both SharePoint 2007 and 2010.

“The new software programs are an important development for Kodak’s Document Imaging business, our partners and our customers,” said Tony Barbeau, General Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “They demonstrate our intent and ability to deliver specific improvements for IT- and services-led systems, such as SharePoint, enabling organizations to do more with images and information to improve  processes, foster  business growth, and increase profits.”

KODAK Document Viewer Software and KODAK Scan and View Software will be available beginning in May of 2011. Availability will vary by geographic location. For more information about KODAK Document Viewer Software and KODAK Scan and View Software, go to www.kodak.com/go/sharepoint.

KODAK products are backed by KODAK Service and Support, which is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging, data storage, and retail industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.

“With these releases, developers for the first time have a single development platform for building highly expressive Web, mobile, and desktop applications, marking a leap forward for mobile app development,” said Ed Rowe, vice president of development tooling, Adobe. “With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, enterprises now need to ensure that their applications work seamlessly across many different types of devices. Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 will now allow companies to standardize on a common platform capable of delivering rich and consistent application experiences that perform great across Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS devices.”

One Common Code Base, Reduce Time to Market

In June, Adobe plans to release updates to the Flex framework that will enable developers to reuse most or all of their code across applications that target multiple platforms, including Web, desktop, Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. Moving an application across different mobile platforms is often as simple as a recompile. New components expand the Spark skinning and component architecture introduced in Flex 4, while enhancements in Flash Builder 4.5 accelerate coding for Flex and ActionScript projects with best practice code templates, code completion and code generation features.

The new mobile development features in Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 are targeted at creating standalone installed applications using Adobe AIR 2.6 for mobile devices. In addition to Android Market, BlackBerry AppWorld and Apple’s iTunes AppStore, mobile apps can now be deployed to the Amazon Appstore for Android providing companies with additional monetization options through the largest online shopping destination. With advanced tooling and new features, such as soon to be deployed native code extensions, AIR is the most powerful way to deliver applications across multiple screens and platforms such as Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, iOS and desktop operating systems.

Recognizing the need for a better mobile experience, Standard Chartered utilized Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 to create a fully transactional banking application that offers a rich, engaging consumer experience across desktop computers, tablets, and smartphone devices.
“For the tablet and smartphone-based app, we cut time to market by 40 percent and investment by two-thirds by leveraging Adobe tools and our existing code for the Web-based application,” said Aman Narain, group head of remote banking, Standard Chartered. “Building a native application for each of these devices would not have been financially feasible.”

Improved Designer-Developer Workflow Speeds Development

Also announced today, Flash Catalyst CS5.5 features a new round-trip workflow with Flash Builder 4.5 allowing designers and developers to work in parallel. Now designers can open, make changes and save Flex projects that were created or previously edited in Flash Builder, leading to faster delivery of applications. Additionally, designers can rapidly prototype user interfaces for resizable Flex based websites and applications with new components, craft more precise and expressive transitions and effects, and efficiently design developer-built custom components. Flash Catalyst CS5.5 is also available in the Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium and Master Collection editions of Creative Suite 5.5.

“We use the Flex skinning architecture and Adobe Flash Catalyst to automatically generate graphics, which has cut our development cycle by 20 percent,” said Aaron Pedersen, founding partner and Web application architect, DevelopmentArc. “This workflow has helped the process of skinning and stylizing the look of Flex applications to meet the designer’s needs.”

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 products are scheduled to ship within 30 days, with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers. Estimated street price is expected to be Rs 13741 for Flash Builder 4.5 Standard and Rs 45308 for Flash Builder 4.5 Premium. Flash Builder 4.5 Premium is also included in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium and Master Collection. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are available. Flex 4.5 is a free open source framework and expected to be available within 30 days.

Touted earlier as a niche product, the tablets have been now reshaped as per consumer’s requirement. The technological revolution has helped eMenu hold the hands of the booming technology – the tablets.

A variety of tablets – stylish, sleek in design and supporting a variety of apps have been developed around the world for ease and convenience of the users at large. The digital menu ordering technology is available on a different tablets supporting the leading Android and Windows operating system.

Androids are being pitted as one of the most stylish and handy gadgets to have been released in the market in recent times. Their portability, light weight and the large size of the touch screen make them bliss to use. An open source is one of Androids’ biggest advantages, along with their available variety; given that one has the option of choosing between branded products and low cost ones. Also, one can choose from a large variety of screen sizes, available with the gadget. It is because of this reason that Android Digital System is a revolutionary invention.

The system has been so designed that any Android 2.2 device can use this eMenu software. Some of the popular supported Android devices include Samsung Galaxy Tab, Archos MID, HTC, Dell Streak, Nexus, Binatonn, Asus Eee Pad and Motorola Xoom among others.

Prabhjeet Singh, Country Marketing Manager-India, Adobe Systems said, “There is significant change in the way content is being consumed in emerging markets like India.  As a leader in content authoring solutions, we want to make sure that our customers have the latest technology to keep pace with this change. With the swift market adoption of devices, design, interactivity and the ability to move content across screens has become pivotal for content creators.  With Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 we are providing industry-leading tools which will allow content creators to design and deliver rich content on any screen with greater efficiency.”

Robert Berkeley, CEO of Express KCS, a leading provider of creative business process outsourcing solutions said, “We have had a great experience using Adobe Creative Suite to produce and deliver digital publishing solutions for our clients. Given the rapid proliferation of a wide variety of devices, we now look forward to even more exciting features and tools from Adobe that will enable us to create compelling content experience for multiple screens like smartphones and tablets.”

The new Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium suite is packed with innovations in HTML5 and Adobe Flash® authoring tools, empowering customers to create, deliver and monetize rich content and applications for virtually any screen.  This release helps enable designers and developers to deliver mobile applications on Android™, BlackBerry® Tablet OS, iOS and other platforms; create rich browser-based content across screens using HTML5; and leverage Flash Player to deliver premium video content, casual games and rich Internet applications.

With today’s announcements, Adobe is extending the creative process beyond the desktop by helping integrate tablet devices into creative workflows.  A new scripting engine in Adobe Photoshop and an enhanced Photoshop Software Development Kit (SDK) enable developers to build tablet applications that interact with Photoshop from Android, BlackBerry and iOS devices.  Adobe also announced three new iPad applications that demonstrate the creative possibilities of using tablets to drive common Photoshop workflows – Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop.

For video and audio professionals, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium suite delivers breakthrough performance, workflow improvements, creative innovations, and powerful new audio editing capabilities that build upon the huge customer momentum Production Premium is experiencing with broadcasters, filmmakers and video professionals worldwide. In just one of the innovations, the powerful Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, introduced in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5, broadens its graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware support to include laptops and more supported cards, allowing users to open projects faster, get real-time feedback and work more smoothly at higher resolutions.

Access Latest Advances in Digital Publishing

Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium suite includes Adobe’s recent product innovations in digital publishing, already deployed by some of the world’s leading magazine and business publishers to create stunning digital editions for tablet devices. Using InDesign® CS5.5, in combination with the integrated Folio Producer toolset, designers can add new levels of interactivity to their page layouts targeted to tablet devices.  Documents can include video, audio, panoramic views, 360-degree object rotation, pan and zoom of images, integration of HTML and HTML5 content and other interactive overlays.  Leading to a much more robust and engaging reading experience.  Creative Suite 5.5 is tightly integrated with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to support publication, sale and analysis of content on an array of tablet devices.

Build Mobile Apps for Android, BlackBerry Playbook and iOS Devices

The launch of Creative Suite 5.5 comes at a time when mobile devices are exploding in terms of sales and capabilities, radically altering the way content and applications are developed and consumed.  With the launch of Adobe Flash® Builder™ 4.5 (now available in Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium), and the Flex® 4.5 framework, developers can easily develop and deploy mobile applications to the over 200 million Android, BlackBerry Playbook and iOS devices anticipated to be in market by the end of 2011.

Flash Enabled Devices on the Rise

With more than 131 million smartphones expected to have Flash Player installed by the end of the year, Adobe Flash makes it possible to bring rich content to desktops and devices inside the browser. Flash Player is supported on Android, HP webOS and Google TV today. BlackBerry Tablet OS, upcoming versions of Windows Phone, Samsung SmartTVs and others are expected to support Flash Player in the near future. For more information about the Adobe Flash Platform, visit: http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/.

Accelerate and Optimize Creative Workflows

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 products integrate with Adobe CS Live*†, a set of online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow and enable designers to focus on creating their best work. CS Live online services include: Adobe BrowserLab; Adobe CS Review; Acrobat.com; Adobe Story; and Adobe SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™ powered by Omniture.

The new Creative Suite product lineup is headlined by Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection, which includes, in a single package, all of Adobe’s industry-defining creative tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator®, InDesign, Acrobat®, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst®, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver®, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects®. These products are available separately or as components of one or more of the five Creative Suite editions. The complete Creative Suite 5.5 lineup includes Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection, Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium, Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium and Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard.

Pricing and Availability

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 products are scheduled to ship within 30 days, with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers. Estimated street price for the Creative Suites is expected to be 154791 for CS5.5 Master Collection, 113141 for CS5.5 Design Premium,  107065 for CS5.5 Web Premium, 101185 for CS5.5 Production Premium and  77371 for CS5.5 Design Standard. Upgrade pricing and volume licensing are available.

“Our research shows that creatives are adopting tablets faster than any other group and we heard loud and clear that they want to use their devices to interact with Photoshop, the tool they depend on most of all,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media Solutions, Adobe. “The apps that we announced today show some of the creative ways tablets can work with Photoshop and over the next few months Photoshop’s vibrant developer community is going to dazzle us with innovative apps that further integrate tablet devices into creative workflows.”

Photoshop SDK Encourages Creative Development

Adobe has developed three initial Photoshop Touch apps: Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav. Adobe Color Lava, allows creative professionals to use their fingertips to mix colors on the iPad, creating custom color swatches and themes to transfer back into Photoshop. Adobe Eazel, which takes advantage of cutting-edge painting technology, lets digital artists create rich realistic paintings with their fingertips and introduces a new kind of interaction between “wet” and “dry” paints. These paintings can then be sent directly to Photoshop CS5 for compositing or for taking the artwork further. Lastly, Adobe Nav increases workflow efficiency by letting users select and control Photoshop tools using the iPad as the input surface, customize the toolbar, browse and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop files or easily create new files. All three applications take advantage of the iPad tablet’s touch screen for a truly immersive, tactile, on-the-go experience. While the first applications available are for the Apple iPad and the iOS, the Photoshop Touch SDK makes development possible on other devices, including Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.

Utilizing the Touch SDK, developers will have wide access to Photoshop functionality with the freedom to innovate and create new apps or add capabilities to existing ones. Adobe has already engaged with a number of developers across the industry to incorporate tablets and other devices into creative workflows that empower Photoshop users in new and groundbreaking ways.

Pricing and Availability

Developers can access the free Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK today for Windows and Mac OS platforms on the Adobe Application Manager at www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop. Current Photoshop CS5 customers can experience the value of the connection to devices by downloading and installing a free patch available on www.adobe.com or via the Adobe Application Manager, beginning May 3, 2011. For more information or to sign up to be notified when the apps become available for purchase, visit www.photoshop.com.

PC as a service removes the complexities of virus protection, software updates, application installation and maintenance by running all software in the backend. These features are moved away from the user to the cloud. The services, including client hardware, are remotely managed end to end by experts.

The ‘zero maintenance’ device works as play and plug service with all the data residing in the backend in fully secure data centre. It offers enhanced features such as 3G support, plug and play printer support, faster browsing and multimedia providing users unparalleled computing experience. Moreover, users will automatically get ‘on air’ upgraded to navigator 5.0 totally free of cost.

“We are pleased to present the next face of computing and have made it a broader and richer experience to reach out to next billion users”, says Henrik Palson, CMO, Novatium solutions. “Novatium Navigator 5.0 was created after in depth research on customer usage and extensive feedback from users. The new version provides world class, cutting edge computing experience never seen before. The core of innovation at Novatium is to allow superior computing and Internet experience with true convenience for great value.” He added.

The service offering is completely free from maintainance/upgrades and virus, extremely user friendly and offers an ability to pay as per usage and easy payment mechanisms through Novatium Wallet. By offloading the overhead of running the operating system to the cloud, a PC as a Service device is able to perform common tasks and regular Internet browsing in a far quicker and responsive manner.

Students and educators in India can access AutoCAD for Mac free through the Autodesk Education Community. Autodesk recognizes the popularity of the Mac platform among students and is providing AutoCAD for Mac so they can build needed skills by having access to the same software that design professionals use every day.

The release of AutoCAD for Mac marks the return of professional design and engineering software to the Mac platform and an important convergence of power and design. AutoCAD for Mac includes new groundbreaking capabilities to help users tackle their most challenging design problems. It gives designers more advanced conceptual design tools as well as increased flexibility and control when designing in 3D.

AutoCAD for Mac Built for Mac OS X

AutoCAD for Mac has an intuitive interface that will be familiar to Mac users and makes available many of the powerful AutoCAD features and functionality to customers who choose to work natively on the Mac. AutoCAD for Mac takes full advantage of Mac OS X, including graphical browsing of design files with Cover Flow and use of Multi-Touch gestures on Mac notebooks, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad for intuitive pan and zoom features. User experience design patterns, such as the visual approach to drawing and layout management, have also been incorporated into AutoCAD for Mac.

With support for native creation and editing files in the DWG file format, AutoCAD for Mac also offers easy collaboration with suppliers, customers, clients and partners regardless of platform. Files created in previous versions of AutoCAD will open seamlessly in AutoCAD for Mac, boosting productivity by reducing time-consuming file translation and cleanup of converted data. The value of AutoCAD for Mac is further extended with an extensive API (application programming interface) and flexible customization options that allow for tailor-built workflows, simple application development and adaption, custom configurations for settings and screen real estate options to suit individual workflows and project demands.

AutoCAD Extended to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new free* app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The AutoCAD WS mobile application will enable AutoCAD users to edit and share AutoCAD files on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch so they can have real-time collaboration even while on the go. The app will be available worldwide by the end of October through Apple’s App Store.