Macworld/iWorld 2013 First Looks Program Offers Sneak Peak at New Innovations for the Apple Platform

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 100 products--many of which are making their debut--will be highlighted as part of Macworld/iWorld's unique First Looks program that showcases some of the newest and coolest solutions for iFans, IDG World Expo announced today. Attendees also will have access to dozens of shopping deals available in exhibitor booths, empowering them to see, try and buy right on the show floor. Macworld/iWorld 2013 (Twitter: @MacworldExpo; Event hashtag: #iFan13), the Ultimate iFan Event, takes place January 31-February 2, 2013, at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. The event will once again serve as a launching pad for hundreds of new software, hardware, peripheral, accessory and app innovations for the Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad when it opens its doors. Register now!

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Exhibitor Shopping Specials

Macworld/iWorld exhibitors will offer attendees exclusive opportunities to see, try and buy products at special show prices right on the show floor. More than 50 companies will offer special pricing on many of the newest products for the Apple marketplace. Participating companies include: BusyMac, Choicee, Cooper Product, Devista B.V., EuroSmartz Ltd, FiledRight, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, iKey, iPresent, Krome Case, MacMate, Nite Ize, Nuance Communications, OnTrion, Prestige International, QNAP, RHP Multimedia Corp., Seidio, ServicePal, Silo Ink, SmartMotion Technology, Square Jellyfish, Tekserve, Tru Protection and Vellum Interactive. Check out all the Shop Macworld/iWorld deals at: http://www.macworldiworld.com/expo-hall/show-specials/.

First Looks

Highlights of this year's First Looks program, which makes it easy for attendees to find the very latest innovations on the show floor, are included below. Check out all the First Looks products at: http://www.macworldiworld.com/first-looks/.

    --  App-Promo (Appalooza, Booth #718): The company will showcase their
        client's PicIT 24 mobile application, a visual diary where you can
        follow friends, family or inspiration. Users can share a maximum of one
        quote and/or one image within a 24 hour period, giving followers the
        opportunity to finally appreciate their creative content.
    --  BEAMR (Appalooza, Booth #718): Beamr(TM) will showcase its JPEGmini(TM)
        for Mac software, which allows users to reduce the file size of photos
        by up to five times while maintaining their original resolution, quality
        and JPEG format. Optimizing photos with JPEGmini(TM) frees up valuable
        hard drive space and lets you quickly share full-resolution photos with
        your friends and family.
    --  Boinx Software Ltd (Appalooza, Booth #718): Boinx Software will feature
        the new iStopMotion for iPad 2. Enjoy the excitement of creating stop
        motion animations and time lapse recordings right from your iPad. Easily
        tell your story using inanimate objects such as toys or clay figures and
        bring them to life frame by frame. Version 2 includes new features such
        as audio recording, more ways to import audio files into a stop motion
        animation or time lapse film, and a Navigator that displays the full
        animation from start to finish at a glance.
    --  Creaceed (Appalooza, Booth #718): Creaceed will showcase the recently
        released Prizmo 2, the revolutionary scanning experience for the Mac
        that supports all the things you want to scan and all the ways you want
        to do it. The technology supports dozens of languages and processing for
        text documents, business cards and images, as well as editing and
        correcting functionality and iCloud support.
    --  Ecamm Network (Appalooza, Booth #718): Ecamm will unveil Printopia Pro,
        the easiest and best way to enable and manage printing from mobile
        devices (including iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch) on your company's
        network. Ecamm took its award-winning Printopia software, tuned it for
        use on large-tiered networks, added manageability, scalability, and
        security features, putting users in complete control.
    --  Gaucho Software, LLC (Appalooza, Booth #718): Gaucho Software will
        showcase Windscape, a new app that shows the wind as it blows. Thousands
        of tiny particles materialize the flow of air around the world in real
        time, color-coded by temperature. Discover never-before-seen
        relationships, gain a global understanding of the weather and let
        yourself be inspired by the beauty of nature.
    --  GetCloak.com (Appalooza, Booth #718): Debuting at Macworld/iWorld 2013,
        Cloak's mission is to give you the tools you need to stay safe when
        you're online. Cloak's app is the easiest, most trusted way to stay safe
        when you're using public Wi-Fi, like the kind you find at coffee shops,
        airports, hotels, and conferences. Cloak automatically detects unsafe
        connections and secures them. Available today for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
    --  Jam for iPhone by DreamWalk Ltd (Appalooza, Booth #718): Australian
        developer DreamWalk Interactive will showcase Jam, a new song-creation
        app for the iPhone. Simply select a musical style and tempo, hit
        "record," and sing into your iPhone. Jam detects the incoming vocal
        pitch, musical key and song structure, then auto-tunes the vocal and
        produces original backing music to suit. The result is an awesome
        sounding, completely original song created around your vocal. Users can
        publish songs to the in-app Jam charts and invite their friends to
        listen via Facebook and Twitter. Earn badges and royalties for each
        published track to unlock additional style packs, grow a following of
        fans and even get signed to one of four Jam record labels.
    --  JAMF Software (MacIT P1): JAMF Software will feature its SCCM Plug-In, a
        framework that can be used to sync your organization's valuable hardware
        and software inventory data for your Apple devices into Microsoft SCCM.
    --  Kdan Mobile Software Ltd (Appalooza, Booth #718): Kdan Mobile Software
        will showcase its NoteLedge app for the iPad and iPhone, a unique tool
        designed to help users record every moment in their life. Features
        include the ability to take/import photos and easily change size and
        apply filter effects, record audio and video while taking notes, use
        stamps and templates to enrich works, capture, organize and share ideas
        on the go, and encrypt diaries and back them up to the cloud.
    --  Marketcircle, Inc. (Appalooza, Booth #718): The company will feature
        Daylite, an award-winning CRM and productivity manager designed to help
        small businesses grow. Daylite 4 was built with a completely revamped
        interface, new features and simplicity to improve user experience and
        productivity. Organize your entire business in a single application,
        including your contacts, schedule, tasks, business opportunities, emails
        and more on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
    --  MOXTRA (Appalooza, Booth #718): Set to unveil later this month, the
        Moxtra app features customizable, virtual binders so you can view, share
        and collaborate with your content. Grab it, organize it in specific
        binders and add real-time voiceover and notes to enhance photos, stories
        or projects. Share binders via social media or privately with contacts,
        enriching the way you share life's moments.
    --  Rain Design, Inc (Booth #524): Rain Design will showcase its new mTower
        vertical laptop stand, which takes up a third of your notebook's
        footprint. Its solid, single piece design gives a notebook the illusion
        of floating for a sleek desktop setup. mTower's anodized aluminum body
        matches Apple notebooks and acts as a giant heat sink--with the
        notebook's bottom turned to the side, its entire surface also dissipates
        heat better.
    --  Reallusion, Inc (Appalooza, Booth #718): Reallusion will feature
        CrazyTalk7, which uses powerful auto-animation technology that allows
        any user--whether they're an iMovie-maker or a creative user--at any
        level to simply use your voice to turn images into talking videos.  Or,
        choose from various scenario-based speaker performance modes to set a
        unique personality to your character's base movement.
    --  Recosoft Corporation (Booth #749): Recosoft will feature PDF2Office for
        iPad, a set of iPad apps that converts PDF files to editable Microsoft
        Office, iWork, OmniGraffle and other common files. PDF2Office for iPad
        is available in three editions: PDF2Office for iWork, PDF2Office
        Business and PDF2Office Lite, with each edition featuring distinct PDF
        conversion capabilities.
    --  Spicebox LLC (Booth #422): Spicebox will introduce Mauz, which
        transforms your smartphone into a gesture-enabled computer mouse. Simply
        connect the device to a smartphone and the Mauz app pops up, allowing
        users to control computers and media centers using motion and visual
        gestures. It's like connecting a computer mouse and a Wii controller to
        your iPhone and then adding a touch of Kinect.
    --  STROTTER (Booth #1049): STROTTER will present the Platforma, a
        convertible messenger bag for iPad that turns into a mobile desk,
        allowing users to work on their iPads while standing up and with both
        hands free to type. With one swing and one pull of a buckle the bag
        transforms into a sling-type backpack. Designed in Boston, Platforma
        features a leather and high-density nylon shell, self-closing flap,
        custom polished hardware and a quickly adjustable strap.
    --  The Casey Group (Appalooza, Booth #718): The company will showcase Sales
        Navigator Calling, a new tool that allows users to make calls directory
        from their iPad. Leveraging a low-cost VoIP service, it has never been
        easier to stay in touch with your most valuable customers and prospects
        while on the road from your iPad.  The technology is fully integrated
        with Sales Navigator, the first iOS application that helps sales
        professionals optimize their reach and touch to valuable customers and
        prospects through the seamless integration of contacts, calendars, and
        map applications.
    --  Touch Press (Appolooza, Booth #718): Touch Press will introduce The
        Orchestra, a truly ground-breaking iPad app that allows unprecedented
        interactive exploration of classical music. The Orchestra allows
        real-time selection of multiple video and audio tracks, along with an
        automatically synchronized score and graphical note-by-note
        visualization of each piece as it is played. The result is an immersive
        environment for exploring the music and every instrument in the
        orchestra.
    --  XFLEX by 1.0 Innovations (Booth #310): 1.0 Innovations will showcase the
        XFLEX iPad stand, The Single Stand Solution(TM) to all your tablet
        needs. The XFLEX works almost anywhere with virtually any flat surface
        tablet or smartphone. The flexible arm allows you to snake the tablet to
        an ideal point of view for reading, surfing, pod-casting or video
        recording.
    --  Zoom (MacIT S2):  Zoom will introduce the world's first Unified Meeting
        Experience (UMX) solution that brings HD video conferencing, web
        meetings and mobility into a simple and free 3-in-1 meeting platform.
        Zoom offers the industry's first screen-sharing on iPhone, iPad and
        MacOS, the industry's first hybrid cloud meeting connector for Mac IT
        users and the industry's first 3-in-1 platform with Enterprise
        Single-Sign-On.

Register

Attendee registration, along with information about event passes and pricing, can be found at: http://www.macworldiworld.com/register/.

For complete details on media qualification guidelines, please visit: http://www.macworldiworld.com/media-qualification-guidelines/. Please note that all media are required to submit media credentials for Macworld/iWorld.

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About Macworld/iWorld

Macworld/iWorld is the world's Ultimate iFan Event for those who use, create and love Apple products. Attendees will encounter a unique celebration of Apple technology-infused art, music, and film, as well as learning opportunities, and a shopping mecca in our expo hall filled with products and services for Apple users of all skill levels and interests. Whether a home user, an artistic hobbyist, a professional or a true Technorati, Macworld/iWorld gives attendees the chance to experience all that the amazing world of Apple-related tools can offer. Macworld/iWorld will take place January 31 - February 2, 2013 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://www.macworldiworld.com.

About IDG World Expo

IDG World Expo (www.idgworldexpo.com) is a leading producer of tradeshows and events for professionals and consumers seeking world-class education, strategic business relationships, and access to industry-leading products and services. IDG World Expo's portfolio of conferences and events includes Macworld / iWorld, the MacIT® Conference, the Electronic Entertainment Expo® (E3®), Anime Expo®, The Game Marketing Summit, Enterprise MobileNext (mNext), and Macworld Mobile. IDG World Expo is a business unit of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research and event company.

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