Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity

Adobe today announced that it has acquired privately held Auditude Inc., a leader in video ad management and monetization technologies for premium publishers and media companies. Through the acquisition of Auditude, Adobe® is now uniquely positioned to provide an end-to-end video offering, seamlessly connecting authoring, publishing, monetization and optimization with the goal of helping customers build long-term businesses through the delivery of quality video content and superior viewing experience across all IP-enabled devices.

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GarageBand Now Available for iPhone and iPod touch Users

Apple today announced that GarageBand is now available for iPhone and iPod touch users. Garageband started out as a desktop application that allowed the use of loops and intruments for anyone to make music. It was then Introduced earlier this year on iPad, GarageBand uses Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch interface to make it easy for anyone to create and record their own songs, even if they’ve never played an instrument before.

“GarageBand on iPad has been a big hit and we think customers will love using it on their iPhone or iPod touch,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The innovative Multi-Touch interface combined with Smart Instruments makes it easy to create great sounding music, even if you’ve never studied music or played an instrument before.”

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Ubuntu may invade smartphones and tablets as soon as 2012

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Don't look now but it looks like the mobile market for smartphones and tablets is going to get a lot more crowded. Linux stalwarts Ubuntu by Canonical are looking to expand beyond the desktop and into the more popular and emerging smartphone and tablet markets in 2012.  What this means for consumers is possibly more choice of devices and likely lower cost of ownership given Ubuntu's open source nature.

Ubuntu has remained one of the more popular Linux distributions that is highly regarded for its ease of use, relatively low system requirements as well as solid community backing and support. Like most of Linux, however, it has fought a long and uphill battle for the desktop space.

A presence in mobile makes sense but only if the Ubuntu OS can be pared down to be actually useful on touch-enabled mobile devices and can at least approximate competing mobile operating systems, some of which have a four-year head start, an established developer community and a store and app ecosystem. Word on the street is that Ubuntu's owner Canonical has been in talks with a number of device manufacturers who may be interested in making phones or tablets running the mobile Ubuntu OS.

Siri World Tour: iPhone 4S Arrives in Hong Kong & South Korea on November 11

Apple today announced that iPhone 4S 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.

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