January

DEVONthink Professional Office public beta released

DEVONtechnologies, LLC has released DEVONthink Professional Office as a public beta. An extension to its DEVONthink product line that adds email archiving, paper capture, and web sharing to the only document manager for the Mac that is based on artificial intelligence.

DEVONthink Professional Office requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and is immediately available as a public beta from DEVONtechnologies’ downloads page. The final release is scheduled for January 2007. DEVONthink Professional Office does not require a license code within the public beta period, but the email import function is limited to 200 messages per day and the OCR function is limited to 20 documents per day.

DEVONthink Professional Office sells for an introductory price of USD$139.95 during the public beta period in DEVONtechnologies’ online shop. After the end of the public beta period, the regular price will be USD$149.95. Users of DEVONthink Personal or DEVONthink Professional are able to upgrade for the price difference of USD$60 or USD$100 respectively.

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Jobs confirmed for “Stevenote” at Macworld San Francisco 2007

IDG World Expo today announced that Steve Jobs will, indeed, deliver the opening keynote address for Macworld Conference & Expo. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center January 8-12, 2006, and the keynote address will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 at 9:00 a.m. at Moscone West.

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Macworld Conference & Expo expands

IDG World Expo today announced the addition of “The Macworld Digital Lifestyle Experience” to Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 at the Moscone Center, January 8 – 12, 2007. Each featured technology in the new Macworld Digital Lifestyle Experience will provide top-level education and hands-on demonstrations of how Mac OS X tools and related technologies can be used.

The attractions are part of an aggressive expansion to be showcased in Moscone’s North Hall along with new exhibits and educational features. Each of the featured experience areas will give attendees the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge products from the featured industries, and will provide information to help them enhance their skills and enjoyment of the latest technologies.

Members of Macworld’s world-renowned faculty will be on-hand to answer questions and provide expert demonstrations, tips and techniques in each of the showcased areas.

Macworld Digital Lifestyle Experiences planned for Macworld in the January 2007 event include the following:

  • The Macworld Digital Photography Experience

  • The Macworld Digital Video Experience
  • The Macworld Digital Music & Sound Experience

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