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Bulletin launches iPad App using K4 and Adobe

“bulletin”, a multiple international award winning customer magazine published by the global financial services provider Credit Suisse, is now also available for the iPad. The deep integration of the Cross-Media Publishing Platform vjoon K4 and Adobe Digital Magazine Solution enabled the service providing agency to deliver the iPad edition very quickly despite its sophisticated design and content. Multimedia features such as 360-degree animation, videos (within the layout or in full-screen format), remarkably diverse picture galleries, live content, hotspots (hyperlinks to websites that open without quitting the app), and the intuitive navigation system also used by the K4 customer WIRED add value and treat audiences to an experience beyond the simple pleasure of reading.



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K4 Integrated with New Adobe Digital Magazine Solution

vjoon is integrating Adobe®’s new digital magazine packaging tools into the K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. K4 customer WIRED is already making use of the new technology for the magazine’s successful digital edition on the iPad platform — with 24,000 issues sold its first day in the Apple iTunes App Store.

The WIRED Reader is the first in a series of steps by Adobe to enable magazine publishers and retail catalogers to deliver groundbreaking experiences across tablets, smart phones and other devices using InDesign CS5. vjoon now is developing features to streamline the creation of the alternative layouts and aspect ratios required to deliver quality digital pages to the iPad and forthcoming alternative mobile platforms.



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vjoon K4 6.2 for Adobe CS 5 released

With the availability of Adobe® Creative Suite®5 vjoon releases K4 Version 6.2, which is fully compatible with CS5. Publishers can immediately take advantage of the ideal combination of multimedia capabilities offered by K4 and Adobe Creative Suite 5 by including videos or picture galleries in dynamic layouts and publishing them into digital platforms like the iPad. With vjoon K4 6.2, the Hamburg-based software developer enriches its Cross-Media Publishing Platform with handy features for more collaboration and multi-channel publishing – such as real-time chat communication with sticky notes across different clients, additional preview capabilities in K4 Overview Advanced, and alternative page designs.

For more information see www.vjoon.com. 

Paul McCullagh has been awarded Oracle ACE Director

Paul McCullagh, founder member and CTO of SNAP Innovation, has now been conferred the renowned award ACE Director. By this Oracle honours his merits in the development of the PBXT Storage Engine for mySQL.

With the Oracle ACE programme Oracle honours people for their technological expertise and their work in the Oracle community, the ACE Director being the highest grade of the ACE programme. He works closely together with Oracle and shares his knowledge in articles, blogs and conference presentations. The ACE Director is in direct contact with the product and development teams. Also SNAP’s customers who use Oracle products thus profit from his profound knowledge.

For more information on PBXT, please see Paul McCullagh’s blog and visit www.primebase.org.

For information on the Oracle ACE programme please click here.