Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-November 15, 2005:

In today's reader mail & report, we note the release of Babya bPicture 11 and also provide updates on vartious previous rumors.

Babya bPicture 11:

Babya bPicture 11 has just been introduced-below is the official press release for Babya bPicture 11:


Babya Software Group today introduced the latest version of Babya bPicture-version 11 which now includes Babya Photo Workshop 10.5 and Babya File Browser and the latest version of Babya Presenter.

Babya bPicture 11 is an new version of Babya's digital asset management software with the following new features:

Minor UI improvements
Babya Presenter & Presenter Pro included for audio & image slideshows
Babya Photo Workshop 10.5 included with the following new features:
Babya Particle Studio-create particle based images
Babya Mandela Painter-create fractal images
Babya PhotoMasker-easy to image masking
Babya File Browser-a visual image browser (useful for previewing images before
editing them in Babya Photo Workshop)
Babya Photo Center-easy to use photo correction software
Babya GIF Studio-easily optimise GIF files

Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy mentioned, "The new bPicture 11 is a substantial upgrade to our digital asset management software offering very speedy image browsing-up to 35% than previous have thousands of images.

We have improved the output options-like easy to use photo printing and quick slideshow viewing and with Babya Presenter pro-audio slideshow support and bPicture now includes Babya File Browser-for fast previewing and the latest version of Babya Photo Workshop."
Pricing and Availability:

Babya bPicture is now available from today, as a free download at:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?23500000036606
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Babya_bPicture/1076838784

About Babya :

Babya Software Group is a award-winning developer of digital media software including Babya bSuite, bPicture and Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.

Babya's software has won many awards over the past 2-3 years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005).

Rumor updates:

Babya Media Event:

Babya Discoverer 12-was not announced at last week's media event , contrary to our earlier report. Babya Discoverer 12 should be announced at the Babya Expo in January.

bSecure-no update, and version 1.0 seems to be EOL'd (but A.A. or Alvin is yet to confirm it). It seems , Babya bSecure 2 will be released early next year-maybe at the Babya Expo.

Babya PhotoRoll is still in development and may be announced and released in late December.

Babya Logic 2.0 will be unveiled at January's Babya Expo, according to Alvin.

Babya Publisher was announced and made available to download on November 6, as was Babya Presenter & Babya Presenter Pro.

That's it for today's reader mail & rumor report-and also our main coverage of the Babya media event. We'll follow up on the event with a rumor winners/losers list shortly.