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May 12th, 2006Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil v1.04.01 released!
The Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil SDK v1.04.01 has just been released. This version adds support for UDF 2.5 and UDF 2.6. It also features improved logging of the burn process, several bug fixes and improved drive compatibility. Details are listed on the changelog page in the SDK documentation.
April 20th, 2006
Website relaunch!
We just relaunched our website with the spiffy new look that you are now seeing. Enjoy!
January 31st, 2006
Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil v1.03.00 with Blu-ray support released!
The Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil SDK v1.03.00 has just been released. The new version offers new features (like Blu-ray support!) as well as improved compatibility. Details are listed on the changelog page in the SDK documentation.
November 22nd, 2005
Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil 1.00.05 released!
The Ashampoo DiscForge Anvil SDK v1.00.05 has just been released. The new version offers some small improvements and support for additional devices.
November 18th, 2005
News policy changed
We have changed the policy for our website news. From now on, all releases will be mentioned, not just the major ones.
February 23rd, 2005
Ashampoo DiscForge Shortcut 2.0 released!
The Ashampoo DiscForge Shortcut SDK v2.0 has just been released. It combines state-of-the-art CD and DVD recording with an unparalleled ease of integration and a very competitive price.
October 29th, 2004
Help to prevent the introduction of software patents in Europe!
Ashampoo Technology GmbH & Co. KG advises all software creators in the European Union to investigate the planned introduction of software patents. We believe that it would have very harmful effects on Europe's software economy and could threaten the existence of many small and medium-sized companies.
The plans can still be stopped. Recent developments show that policiticans begin to understand the issues that are involved with the proposed change. Quite a few are now actively working to prevent it.
But not all politicians have realized the danger yet. We should help them to better understand the problems that software patents would cause so that maybe they will change their minds!
More information about this topic and about ways to participate in the protests can be found here:
April 12th, 2004
Ashampoo Technology protests new patent legislation plans
Ashampoo Technology GmbH & Co. KG has joined the ranks of many hundreds of thousands of european companies and private citizens that publicly protest the plans to legalise pure software patents.
Current plans for new legislation in the European Union include a proposal that would allow basically any kind of software to be patented, even the most trivial ones. This is in contrast to the current laws, which explicitly exclude software from patentability, together with the closely related fields of mathematical methods, thinking patterns and other non-physical inventions.
Patents are meant to protect an investment made into a costly development process. They are not meant to be used to monopolise trivial ideas with no development cost to speak of for whoever got to his lawyers first. These kinds of patents could have lots of bad ramifications for small and medium sized companies, as is illustrated here.
More information about these plans and the organized protests can be found at: swpat.ffii.org
