Here’s a brief look at the major announcements made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, on Day Two - Adobe: Adobe announced new features to its Digital Publishing Suite including a new in-app merchandising, provisioning of targeted content based on user role, and better app creation. The company claimed that more than 16 million digital publications, powered by Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, were downloaded on tablets over the last year. 68 percent of readers worldwide currently pay for digital magazines on tablets in which 15 percent paid for single issue, 26 percent paid for subscriptions and and 27 percent paid for bundles of print and digital issues. The company also rolled out its photo editing software Photoshop to iPad and released an integrated video publishing, advertising and analytics platform. - Mozilla: Mozilla demoed a prototype hardware for its Boot To Gecko Project, a mobile operating system that is completely based on web and HTML5. The browser company has partnered with Telefonica and Qualcomm to develop mobile devices running on this platform, and is labelling them as Open Web Devices. Press Release - Waze: Social traffic & navigation app Waze has announced a new version of its Android app. This new update brings along a complete redesign of the app, featuring a new minimalist graphic interface and Foursquare and Yelp POI (Points of Interest) integration. The company also introduced hands-free traffic reporting to its iPhone app. Drivers can now speak to navigate, report traffic, and alert others about hazardous road incidents by a simple…
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