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Now Software

December 07, 2023

Now Software was the producer of Now Up-to-Date & Contact, a calendaring software and contact manager for individuals and groups, for macOS and Windows.[1][2] The company was incorporated in 1989.[3]

Now Software
IndustrySoftware Engineering
Founded1989; 34 years ago (1989)
DefunctMarch 2010 (2010-03)
FateDissolved
Products
    • Now Up-to-Date & Contact
    • Now Utilities
    • Now X

Now Software, then based in Portland, Oregon, was acquired by Qualcomm in 1997.[4][5][6] At the time of acquisition, Qualcomm reported (based on data from the company and from industry research firm Softletter) that Now Software was the "71st-largest software company in the U.S. with close to two million users" of its products.[4] Qualcomm also noted that Now Software's products had won high praise, "including Product of the Year, multiple Editor's and Reader's Choice honors and seven World Class Awards".[4] In 1999, the intellectual properties of the original company, including the name, were acquired by Power On Software, which relaunched the company and name.[7][2][8]

On August 27, 2009, the company released Now X, the successor to Now Up-to-Date & Contact.[9][10][11] Now X was rated poorly by Macworld, which called it "a program that doesn't rise anywhere near the level of its predecessor".[10]

In March 2010, the company suspended its day-to-day operations.[1][2][12]

In 2011, InformationWeek included Now Up-to-Date & Contact in its list of "Great Lost Software", sixteen great defunct software applications, along with Adobe FreeHand, Adobe GoLive, Ecco Pro, HyperCard, Lotus Improv, Outlook Express, Palm Desktop, Ventura Publisher, WriteNow, and others.[13]

Two of the original programmers of Now Up-to-Date, Dave Riggle and John Chaffee, moved on to found the software company BusyMac,[14] which produces the software applications BusyCal and BusyContacts, filling a similar niche market to the one filled by Now Up-to-Date & Contact.[15][16][17]

Now Utilities edit

Now Utilities was a file utility product for Mac System 7.[18][19] The first version, in 1990,[20] was named one of MacUser's "Top 100 Products for 1990".[21]

As of Version 4 (released in 1993), Now Utilities includes NowSave, an automatic document saving facility (save after a configurable number of keystrokes or mouse-clicks); Super Boomerang (puts most recently used files into a menu); Now Profile (a system information collector); NowMenus (adds subfolders to the Apple menu); WYSIWYG Menus (Font, Size, Style menus render text as they would appear in a document); and Now Scrapbook (a replacement for the Scrapbook desk accessory).[22] Earlier versions contained AlarmsClock, DeskPicture and ScreenLocker utilities, but these were removed in version 4.[22]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Now Software shuts down". tidbits.com. TidBITS. 22 March 2010. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  2. ^ a b c Michaels, Philip (June 2010). "Now Software out of time". Macworld. 27 (6): 15.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Business Registry Number 180722-80". egov.sos.state.or.us. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2018-04-17. Registry date: 11-28-1989
  4. ^ a b c "Qualcomm incorporated announces acquisition of Now Software" (Press release). Qualcomm. 10 November 1997. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
  5. ^ Gardner, Dana (17 November 1997). . InfoWorld. 19 (46): 21. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018.
  6. ^ Cortinas, Marty (2 March 1998). "Qualcomm unifies Now acquisitions". MacWeek. 12 (9): 21.[dead link]
  7. ^ Sellers, Dennis (28 January 2003). "Now (Software) is Power On's future". macworld.com. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  8. ^ "Power On Software acquires rights to contact management and enterprise scheduling products from Qualcomm" (Press release). Power On Software, Inc. 12 July 1999. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  9. ^ Cohen, Peter (28 August 2009). "Now X debuts, successor to Now Up-to-Date and Contact". macworld.com. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  10. ^ a b Battersby, Jeffery (16 February 2010). "Capsule review: Now X". macworld.com. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  11. ^ "Reviews: Now X". Macworld. 27 (5): 58–59. May 2010.[dead link]
  12. ^ Wallace, John (22 March 2010). "Farewell". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-04-17. Farewell letter from John Wallace, president of Now Software.
  13. ^ Widman, Jake (22 February 2011). "Great lost software: 16 gone but not forgotten". informationweek.com. InformationWeek. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  14. ^ "BusyMac". busymac.com. BusyMac. 18 April 2007. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  15. ^ Mello Jr., John P. (20 April 2009). "Now Software and the Mac/PC office: diversity in the workplace". technewsworld.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  16. ^ Sparks, David (13 February 2015). "BusyContacts ships and interview". macsparky.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  17. ^ Kissell, Joe (26 October 2009). "BusyMac BusyCal 1.0". macworld.com. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  18. ^ Colby, Clifford; Aker, Sharon Zardetto; Cortinas, Marty, eds. (2002). The Macintosh bible (8th ed.). Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press. p. 508. ISBN 020170899X. OCLC 47636600. In the heady days of Mac System 7, the most powerful set of system-enhancement utilities around was Now Software's Now Utilities, a bunch of clever modules that took the Mac Finder to new frontiers. However, it fell on hard times, and promised updates for Mac OS 8 and later never seemed to happen. Some of the folks who founded Now Software went off to create a new utility maker, Extensis...
  19. ^ Lee, Lisa (1995). MacWeek upgrading and repairing your Mac. The Don Crabb Macintosh library. Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Books. p. 513. ISBN 1568302495. OCLC 36178387. Now Software's Now Utilities has a reputation not only for cramming the maximum number of features into a reasonably priced package, but also for implementing those features well and thoroughly.
  20. ^ "Predicasts Technology Update, Vol 46". books.google.com. 16 July 1990. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  21. ^ "Computer Age Software Report, Volumes 23-25". books.google.com. 1991. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  22. ^ a b Eckhardt, Robert C. (August 1993). "System utility collection". Macworld. 10 (8): 138.

Further reading edit

  • Littman, Dan (March 1992). "Now's new calendar". Macworld. 9 (3): 125.[dead link]
  • Schorr, Joseph (October 1992). . Macworld. 9 (10): 210. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18.
  • Littman, Dan; Moran, Tom (December 1992). . Macworld. 9 (12): 177. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Reviews Now Up-to-Date 2.0.
  • Baran, Nicholas (May 1993). "Personable PIMs". Byte. 18 (6): 194–198.[dead link] Reviews Now Up-to-Date 2.0, among other personal information managers (PIMs).
  • Schorr, Joseph (June 1993). "Calendar software". Macworld. 10 (6): 146–147.[dead link]
  • Taub, Eric (July 1993). "Sharing schedules". MacUser. 9 (7): 154–161.[dead link]
  • Ito, Russell (October 1993). "Now's PIM". MacUser. 9 (10): 38–39.[dead link]
  • Littman, Dan (November 1993). "In Contact with Up-to-Date". Macworld. 10 (11): 139.[dead link] Announces release of Now Contact.
  • Taylor, Dave (27 December 1993). . InfoWorld. 15 (52/1): 81. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018.
  • Tessler, Franklin N. (March 1994). . Macworld. 11 (3): 63–64. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Reviews Now Contact 1.0.
  • Cryan, Shelley (January 1995). "Electric assistants". MacUser. 11 (1): 82–90.[dead link] Reviews Now-Up-To-Date 2.1.1 and Now Contact 1.1 and other PIMs.
  • Littman, Dan (January 1995). . Macworld. 12 (1): 132. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Reviews Now Contact 3.0.
  • Ohlson, Karen J.; Snell, Jason (January 1995). "The personal goes public". MacUser. 11 (1): 36.[dead link] Reports on upgrades to Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact.
  • Schorr, Joseph (April 1995). "Personal information managers". Macworld. 12 (4): 61.[dead link] Reviews Now-Up-To-Date and Now Contact 3.0.
  • Janus, Susan (May 1995). "Now Contact and Up-to-Date". MacUser. 11 (5): 41–42.[dead link]
  • "New Now is noteworthy". MacUser. 11 (8): 28. August 1995.[dead link] Reviews Now-Up-To-Date and Now Contact 3.5.
  • King, Nelson (12 September 1995). "PIMs & contact managers". PC Magazine. 14 (15): 235–237.[dead link] Cover story reviews Now Up-to-Date and other PIMs.
  • Scisco, Peter (October 1995). "Personal information managers: making a date". PC World. 13: 154.[dead link] Reviews Now Up-to-Date for Windows 95 and other PIMs.
  • Swenson, John (16 October 1995). "Sharing scheduling data across platforms". InformationWeek (549): 90.[dead link] Reviews Now Up-to-Date for Windows 95.
  • Janus, Susan (November 1995). "Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.5". MacUser. 11 (11): 59.[dead link]
  • "Two 'personal information managers'". Architectural Record. 184: 48. March 1996.[dead link] Reviews Ascend 5.0 and Now Up-to-Date 1.0 for Windows.
  • "Multiuser manager". InformationWeek (573): 85. 1 April 1996.[dead link] Reviews Now Up-to-Date 1.02 for Windows.
  • Wilkerson, Robert (20 May 1996). . PC Week. 13 (20): N1. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Reviews Now-Up-To-Date Web Publisher and other group scheduling and calendaring software.
  • Schorr, Joseph (June 1996). "Office essentials". Macworld. 13 (6): 106–111.[dead link] Mentions Now-Up-to-Date 3.5.
  • "Hot disks". Entrepreneur. 24 (11): 56. November 1996. Reviews Now Up-to-Date Web Publisher and other software.
  • Topolos, Nick A. (December 1996). "Now Up-to-Date Web Publisher". Macworld. 13 (12): 78.[dead link]
  • Poultney, John (20 January 1997). "Now package to boost e-mail". MacWeek. 11 (3): 4–5.[dead link] Reviews Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact 3.6.5.
  • . Fortune. 137 (1): 205–208. Winter 1998. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Mentions Now Software.
  • Wier, Benson; Hunton, James E. (August 1998). "Software to get you organized". Journal of Accountancy. 186 (2): 50–52.[dead link] Now Up-to-Date 3.6.5.
  • Furchgott, Roy (8 November 1999). "Using the net to soup up your palm top computer". BusinessWeek (3654): 165–166.[dead link] Mentions using a software program called Consultant to sync data from Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact to a Palm Pilot.
  • Negrino, Tom (August 2000). "Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.9". Macworld. 17 (8): 54.[dead link]
  • Negrino, Tom (October 2001). . Macworld. 18 (10): 30. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18.
  • Mainelli, Tom (February 2004). "Now's mixed office PIM". PC World. 22 (2): 58.[dead link]
  • Garcia, Chana; Donaldson, Sonya A. (May 2004). . Black Enterprise. 34 (10): 54. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Reviews Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact.
  • Battersby, Jeffery (28 November 2005). "Capsule review: Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5.0". macworld.com. Macworld. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  • "Calendars and organizers compared". Macworld. 25 (9): 40. September 2008.[dead link] Mentions Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact 5.3.2.

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Now Software was the producer of Now Up to Date amp Contact a calendaring software and contact manager for individuals and groups for macOS and Windows 1 2 The company was incorporated in 1989 3 Now SoftwareIndustrySoftware EngineeringFounded1989 34 years ago 1989 DefunctMarch 2010 2010 03 FateDissolvedProductsNow Up to Date amp Contact Now Utilities Now XNow Software then based in Portland Oregon was acquired by Qualcomm in 1997 4 5 6 At the time of acquisition Qualcomm reported based on data from the company and from industry research firm Softletter that Now Software was the 71st largest software company in the U S with close to two million users of its products 4 Qualcomm also noted that Now Software s products had won high praise including Product of the Year multiple Editor s and Reader s Choice honors and seven World Class Awards 4 In 1999 the intellectual properties of the original company including the name were acquired by Power On Software which relaunched the company and name 7 2 8 On August 27 2009 the company released Now X the successor to Now Up to Date amp Contact 9 10 11 Now X was rated poorly by Macworld which called it a program that doesn t rise anywhere near the level of its predecessor 10 In March 2010 the company suspended its day to day operations 1 2 12 In 2011 InformationWeek included Now Up to Date amp Contact in its list of Great Lost Software sixteen great defunct software applications along with Adobe FreeHand Adobe GoLive Ecco Pro HyperCard Lotus Improv Outlook Express Palm Desktop Ventura Publisher WriteNow and others 13 Two of the original programmers of Now Up to Date Dave Riggle and John Chaffee moved on to found the software company BusyMac 14 which produces the software applications BusyCal and BusyContacts filling a similar niche market to the one filled by Now Up to Date amp Contact 15 16 17 Now Utilities editNow Utilities was a file utility product for Mac System 7 18 19 The first version in 1990 20 was named one of MacUser s Top 100 Products for 1990 21 As of Version 4 released in 1993 Now Utilities includes NowSave an automatic document saving facility save after a configurable number of keystrokes or mouse clicks Super Boomerang puts most recently used files into a menu Now Profile a system information collector NowMenus adds subfolders to the Apple menu WYSIWYG Menus Font Size Style menus render text as they would appear in a document and Now Scrapbook a replacement for the Scrapbook desk accessory 22 Earlier versions contained AlarmsClock DeskPicture and ScreenLocker utilities but these were removed in version 4 22 See also editTimeline of computing 1990 99 other developments in computing during the heyday of Now SoftwareReferences edit a b Now Software shuts down tidbits com TidBITS 22 March 2010 Retrieved 2018 04 17 a b c Michaels Philip June 2010 Now Software out of time Macworld 27 6 15 dead link Business Registry Number 180722 80 egov sos state or us Oregon Secretary of State Retrieved 2018 04 17 Registry date 11 28 1989 a b c Qualcomm incorporated announces acquisition of Now Software Press release Qualcomm 10 November 1997 Retrieved 2008 04 22 Gardner Dana 17 November 1997 Qualcomm purchases Now Software InfoWorld 19 46 21 Archived from the original on 18 April 2018 Cortinas Marty 2 March 1998 Qualcomm unifies Now acquisitions MacWeek 12 9 21 dead link Sellers Dennis 28 January 2003 Now Software is Power On s future macworld com Macworld Retrieved 2017 04 17 Power On Software acquires rights to contact management and enterprise scheduling products from Qualcomm Press release Power On Software Inc 12 July 1999 Retrieved 2015 11 16 Cohen Peter 28 August 2009 Now X debuts successor to Now Up to Date and Contact macworld com Macworld Retrieved 2017 04 17 a b Battersby Jeffery 16 February 2010 Capsule review Now X macworld com Macworld Retrieved 2017 04 17 Reviews Now X Macworld 27 5 58 59 May 2010 dead link Wallace John 22 March 2010 Farewell sites google com Retrieved 2018 04 17 Farewell letter from John Wallace president of Now Software Widman Jake 22 February 2011 Great lost software 16 gone but not forgotten informationweek com InformationWeek Retrieved 2017 04 17 BusyMac busymac com BusyMac 18 April 2007 Retrieved 2022 09 05 Mello Jr John P 20 April 2009 Now Software and the Mac PC office diversity in the workplace technewsworld com Retrieved 17 April 2018 Sparks David 13 February 2015 BusyContacts ships and interview macsparky com Retrieved 17 April 2018 Kissell Joe 26 October 2009 BusyMac BusyCal 1 0 macworld com Retrieved 5 September 2022 Colby Clifford Aker Sharon Zardetto Cortinas Marty eds 2002 The Macintosh bible 8th ed Berkeley CA Peachpit Press p 508 ISBN 020170899X OCLC 47636600 In the heady days of Mac System 7 the most powerful set of system enhancement utilities around was Now Software s Now Utilities a bunch of clever modules that took the Mac Finder to new frontiers However it fell on hard times and promised updates for Mac OS 8 and later never seemed to happen Some of the folks who founded Now Software went off to create a new utility maker Extensis Lee Lisa 1995 MacWeek upgrading and repairing your Mac The Don Crabb Macintosh library Indianapolis IN Hayden Books p 513 ISBN 1568302495 OCLC 36178387 Now Software s Now Utilities has a reputation not only for cramming the maximum number of features into a reasonably priced package but also for implementing those features well and thoroughly Predicasts Technology Update Vol 46 books google com 16 July 1990 Retrieved 2017 04 17 Computer Age Software Report Volumes 23 25 books google com 1991 Retrieved 2017 04 17 a b Eckhardt Robert C August 1993 System utility collection Macworld 10 8 138 Further reading editLittman Dan March 1992 Now s new calendar Macworld 9 3 125 dead link Schorr Joseph October 1992 Now Up to Date 1 0 1 Macworld 9 10 210 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Littman Dan Moran Tom December 1992 Up to date again Macworld 9 12 177 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Reviews Now Up to Date 2 0 Baran Nicholas May 1993 Personable PIMs Byte 18 6 194 198 dead link Reviews Now Up to Date 2 0 among other personal information managers PIMs Schorr Joseph June 1993 Calendar software Macworld 10 6 146 147 dead link Taub Eric July 1993 Sharing schedules MacUser 9 7 154 161 dead link Ito Russell October 1993 Now s PIM MacUser 9 10 38 39 dead link Littman Dan November 1993 In Contact with Up to Date Macworld 10 11 139 dead link Announces release of Now Contact Taylor Dave 27 December 1993 Now Up to Date Now Contact need to improve integration InfoWorld 15 52 1 81 Archived from the original on 18 April 2018 Tessler Franklin N March 1994 Contact manager Macworld 11 3 63 64 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Reviews Now Contact 1 0 Cryan Shelley January 1995 Electric assistants MacUser 11 1 82 90 dead link Reviews Now Up To Date 2 1 1 and Now Contact 1 1 and other PIMs Littman Dan January 1995 Now Contact goes multiuser Macworld 12 1 132 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Reviews Now Contact 3 0 Ohlson Karen J Snell Jason January 1995 The personal goes public MacUser 11 1 36 dead link Reports on upgrades to Now Up to Date and Now Contact Schorr Joseph April 1995 Personal information managers Macworld 12 4 61 dead link Reviews Now Up To Date and Now Contact 3 0 Janus Susan May 1995 Now Contact and Up to Date MacUser 11 5 41 42 dead link New Now is noteworthy MacUser 11 8 28 August 1995 dead link Reviews Now Up To Date and Now Contact 3 5 King Nelson 12 September 1995 PIMs amp contact managers PC Magazine 14 15 235 237 dead link Cover story reviews Now Up to Date and other PIMs Scisco Peter October 1995 Personal information managers making a date PC World 13 154 dead link Reviews Now Up to Date for Windows 95 and other PIMs Swenson John 16 October 1995 Sharing scheduling data across platforms InformationWeek 549 90 dead link Reviews Now Up to Date for Windows 95 Janus Susan November 1995 Now Up to Date amp Contact 3 5 MacUser 11 11 59 dead link Two personal information managers Architectural Record 184 48 March 1996 dead link Reviews Ascend 5 0 and Now Up to Date 1 0 for Windows Multiuser manager InformationWeek 573 85 1 April 1996 dead link Reviews Now Up to Date 1 02 for Windows Wilkerson Robert 20 May 1996 Finding a date on the Internet PC Week 13 20 N1 Archived from the original on 18 April 2018 Reviews Now Up To Date Web Publisher and other group scheduling and calendaring software Schorr Joseph June 1996 Office essentials Macworld 13 6 106 111 dead link Mentions Now Up to Date 3 5 Hot disks Entrepreneur 24 11 56 November 1996 Reviews Now Up to Date Web Publisher and other software Topolos Nick A December 1996 Now Up to Date Web Publisher Macworld 13 12 78 dead link Poultney John 20 January 1997 Now package to boost e mail MacWeek 11 3 4 5 dead link Reviews Now Up to Date and Now Contact 3 6 5 What s new in small business software Fortune 137 1 205 208 Winter 1998 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Mentions Now Software Wier Benson Hunton James E August 1998 Software to get you organized Journal of Accountancy 186 2 50 52 dead link Now Up to Date 3 6 5 Furchgott Roy 8 November 1999 Using the net to soup up your palm top computer BusinessWeek 3654 165 166 dead link Mentions using a software program called Consultant to sync data from Now Up to Date and Now Contact to a Palm Pilot Negrino Tom August 2000 Now Up to Date amp Contact 3 9 Macworld 17 8 54 dead link Negrino Tom October 2001 Now Up to Date and Contact 4 0 Macworld 18 10 30 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Mainelli Tom February 2004 Now s mixed office PIM PC World 22 2 58 dead link Garcia Chana Donaldson Sonya A May 2004 Get it together Black Enterprise 34 10 54 Archived from the original on 2018 04 18 Reviews Now Up to Date and Now Contact Battersby Jeffery 28 November 2005 Capsule review Now Up to Date amp Contact 5 0 macworld com Macworld Retrieved 2017 04 17 Calendars and organizers compared Macworld 25 9 40 September 2008 dead link Mentions Now Up to Date and Now Contact 5 3 2 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Now Software amp oldid 1132004125, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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