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Location / Home / About Us / News theKompany.com has much to shout about. Here's where you can keep an eye on what's going on with us and our software. If you're looking for press releases, head on over to the Press section. 21 October 2007 - Many of you are familiar with our sister company Mindawn, which is a 26 September 2007 - These incredible little machines support not only MP3, but our native OGG and FLAC formats as well. They can most closely be compared to an iPod Nano, but with more features and at a lower price. Audio only at 4GB is just $119.95 and 8GB with video is just $174.95. That is from 70 to 140 hours of music in OGG or MP3 format. 01 May 2007 - We are very pleased to announce that version 4.0 of DataArchitect is now available. You can read all the details in our press release here. 19 March 2007 - We are pleased to let you know about the new 4.0 version of DataArchitect that is currently in beta. Notable in this release is direct support for Oracle now. 15 March 2006 - We are very pleased to announce the availability of DataArchitect Version 3.5, our pre-eminent tool for database structure management and ERD work on Linux, Windows, Mac, HP-UX and Solaris. 01 March 2006 - Our first application for the Nokia 770 is now available, it is a port of our tkcPanels game. This is really a fascinating device, you should check it out. 23 February 2006 - We are very pleased to announce that Mandriva is bundling the client software for our Mindawn digital media distribution service in their Linux distribution. You can read all the details in the press release here. 05 December 2005 - While it might look like not much is going on, we've been working very hard on lots of things. First of all we're working to port a bunch of applications to this really cool Nokia 770 internet tablet. I got to tell you, the screen on this thing is just amazing. 20 July 2005 - And the good news just keeps on flowing. Today we are releasing "Kode", a multi-language, multi-platform IDE for developing with all sorts of different languages, you can read our press release here and check out the product details and screenshots here. 19 July 2005 - Boy are we excited about this one. The University of California system selected Mindawn as a legal download service for the campuses, you can read the details of the press release here. 15 July 2005 - There are some nice reviews of our embedded apps address book and video player applications for the Sharp Zaurus here and here. 13 July 2005 - We are pleased to announce a new partnership with Soft Maker out of Germany, to provide their exceptional multi-platform word processing software TextMaker for the Sharp Zaurus as part of our line of embedded software. The price is normally $49.95, but for a limited time we'll be making it available for only $24.95. 26 May 2005 - We are very pleased to announce version 3.1 of DataArchitect, our popular ERD tool for relational databases. There are lots of great things in this release, a coupld highlights are support for the Solaris operating system, and the Gupta SQLBase RDBMS. Read the whole press release here. 25 May 2005 - Earlier this year Archos released the Embedded Linux/Qtopia based PMA400portable media device. This amazing unit is designed primarily for video on the go, but is also a very full featured PDA with many extras, so it only made sense for theKompany to start porting their popular software for the Sharp Zaurus to this new device. Of the several dozen applications to choose from, the first 3 to be ported are: 13 May 2005 - Due to popular demand, we've ported our embedded tkcBackup product to the Linux desktop, where there is a real shortage of inexpensive and easy to use solutions. Find out all about tkBackup and then get yourself a copy and protect that sensitive data. 01 April 2005 - We are happy to announce the 1.2.1 release of Aethera, the full press release can be read here, but there are lots of great new things and updates to our tkJabber plug in. Get yourself a copy of this powerful, multi-platform and free application. 02 February 2005 - We've been burning the midnight oil lately to get updates of a lot of our products out, the latest update is for our popular DataBase Monitoring and Administration Tool for Linux, Windows and now for Mac OSX, dbRadar. This new release has a lot of useful updates, check out the press release here. 27 January 2005 - The developers are on fire this month, we've just released version 3.7 of our wildly popular web development tool QuantaGold, which is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. This new release has a lot of optimizations for OS X in particular, as well as updates for PHP 5. You get all platforms for one low price so you can use Quanta wherever you go. The full press release can be read here. 18 January 2005 - We are very pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of our popular graphing and flowcharting tool Kivio. Kivio is meant to replace Visio from Microsoft and is available on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, you get all platforms for one low price. The full press release is here. 05 January 2005 - We've just released version 1.2 of our popular multi-platform email/pim/groupware/communications client Aethera. Lots of good things in this release, including even more Groupware support, check out the details on our Press Release. 18 December 2004 - This is the sort of super secret project we've been working on for a while now. We've converged all our interest in to a new electronic music distribution system called Mindawn. We've gone one or two or three better than all the other services available. We're available on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (look out Apple). We provide for actual CD quality lossless audio using FLAC, as well as lossy using Ogg Vorbis. Any musician or label can sign up, as an artist you can be live just as quick as you can rip and upload, there is no approval process. You can read the press release here. There are FAQ's on the site that should answer any questions. 10 December 2004 - We've just made an important new release of BlackAdder, our popular Python development tool for Qt and PyQt. Check out a free demo and discover how quickly you can develop multi-platform applications using BlackAdder. 18 October 2004 - We've made some major upgrades to our popular tkcExplorer application for embedded Linux devices, like recoverable trash, file associations for launching applications and more. Check here for all the features and a free demo. 25 August 2004 - We are pleased to announce our entry in to the Symbian Smart Phone arena with 3 new products that are available exclusively at Handango for the moment. They are ports of our our tkcLines and tkcBlocks as well as a new game called tkcCollapse. The applications are available for just $3.95 each and will work on any version 2 series 60 Nokia phone. 05 August 2004 - It has been a while since our President Shawn Gordon has done an interview, but there is a new one that just went up over at Orangecrate today that you can read here. 17 July 2004 - We're pleased to announce another entry in our list of games for the Sharp Zaurus, tkcPanels. This is a variation on the classic thumb puzzle game where you mix up a picture and have to put it back together, but ours has some twists such as the ability to load your own images and to "fuzz" the reference image to make it even more challenging. 15 July 2004 - We are very please to announce that our tkcMail email client for Embedded Linux devices now has full IMAP support in addition to POP. You can read more about the product as well as purchase it here. 01 July 2004 - We are really excited to tell you that version 1.1 of Aethera is now available. This is our email/PIM/groupware client that runs on Linux, Windows and with this release Mac OS X (Panther and later). Aethera has extensive support for the plugins include Jabber instant messenger (with p2p file transfer), Whiteboarding and Voice over IP clients. Aethera is totally GPL and free, so no reason not to check it out. The press release is here 22 June 2004 - We've released a couple new games for the Sharp Zaurus line of embedded linux based PDA's. They are tkcLines and tkcBlocks. Both are priced at just $4.95 each and offer a nice diversion and challenge. Free demo's are available here. 13 May 2004 - One of the biggest requests we've gotten for our popular Zaurus shopping list application tkcShopper, has been a companion desktop application where it is easier and more convenient to set up stores and lists and various things, so that is exactly what we've done. Introducing tkShopper, the most advanced shopping list management program available, even includes alarms. For just $14.95 you can get this convenient and easy to use application 20 April 2004 - There has been more and more demand to create complimentary desktop versions of our popular Embedded Linux applications. The latest to get this treatment is our expense tracking program tkcExpense in the guise of tkExpense. With the pair of applications you can easily exchange data between the desktop and device with the touch of a button. Even as a stand alone app tkExpense is useful with it's sophisticated expense management capability and you can easily export to CSV to import to other applications. 15 April 2004 - We've created a new section of Kivio mp stencils called "Process Engineering", they are priced at just $6 each, they are: 02 April 2004 - Wow, we're having major new updates of this popular application virtually every month lately. What is most significant in version 1.3 of dbRadar is the support for Oracle 10g client libraries on Linux. You can read the whole press release here. 03 March 2004 - These guys are on a roll, the dbRadar team has release version 1.2 of our popular database monitoring package for Linux and Windows right on the heels of 1.1. This isn't just a bug fix release, this is a set of major new functionality, you can read all about it in the press release here, and check out more about dbRadar and try a free demo here. 01 March 2004 - Our engineers have been working like crazy putting out new applications for the Sharp Zaurus PDA and massive updates to existing ones. Our tkcLoadRunner game now comes with versions for Linux, Windows and Sharp Zaurus all for one very low price. This includes tools for editing levels of the game as well. 27 February 2004 - The fine folks at OSNews have just put up a very nice review of our development tool BlackAdder for Python GUI development on Linux and Windows. 10 February 2004 - We are happy to let you know about a pretty significant update to our popular database monitoring product dbRadar. dbRadar runs on Linux and Windows and supports a variety of popular databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and DB2. You can read the full press release here. dbRadar can be purchased for as little as $39.95. 02 February 2004 - We are very pleased to tell you about our latest release of Aethera. This new release adds to our growing list of plug ins to add Voice over IP to the Jabber and Whiteboarding already available. In addition Aethera is now groupware capable via Kolab groupware server. You can read the press release here and download a demo from here, just make sure to read the readme file. Remember, Aethera is GPL and free, so use it, share it, love it. 12 January 2004 - We've just made a new release of our popular BlackAdder development environment for Python. The details and press release can be read here. 27 December 2003 - We are pleased to announce the release of tkCard personal data management system. tkCard is a port to the desktop of our popular tkcCard light weight data management system. All the details and screenshots can be found here. Essentially you have all the features of the embedded version as well as an integrated file transfer that allows you to dock your Zaurus and easily transfer the file to the desktop for manipulation and send it back to the Zaurus. 22 December 2003 - Today we've released a significant update to our popular embedded personal finance manager tkcKapital. With tkcKapital you are able to track and perform all your personal finance needs and exchange data with our desktop versions, Kapital. 18 December 2003 - We are pleased to announce the 3.0 release of tkcPlayer. This new version is notable for its support of AAC file types, this is what is produced when you rip from iTunes, the very popular media program from Apple that was also recently ported to Windows. This makes the Zaurus about the only non-iPod device that will play AAC files, but there are two important caveats: 27 November 2003 - OSNews has just posted a short, but fair review of our new dbRadar product. 19 November 2003 - OSNews has just posted a nice review of version 3.0 of our multi-platform ERD toold, DataArchitect. You can read it here. 17 November 2003 - Rekall is our multi-platform, multi-database, MS Access like product. We have now decided to release it as dual licensed with a GPL version available as of today. You can read all the details about it here. 31 October 2003 - After many months of hard work we are happy to let you know about the release of DataArchitect 3.0 for Windows, Linux and OS X (Mac will be up in another day). There is a huge number of enhancements and improvements, your comments and reports to our Mantis tracking system have been been taken in to account in much of the work that was done. You can read the details on the new release here. You can also try out a demo from here. 07 October 2003 - Our developers have been in overdrive lately bringing you new applications for the Sharp Zaurus line of Linux based PDAs. Now we have our latest application, tkcBackup. tkcBackup is a robust backup/restore application that allows you to select specific files for backing up or restoring, saved profiles, browse the contents of a backup, and many other convenience features. You just can't do these kinds of functions with anything currently available, so if you're serious about wanting to store your data, tkcBackup is the way to go. 18 September 2003 - We have now released tkcZip as the latest member of our Embedded Software family. tkcZip is basically WinZip for the Sharp Zaurus, providing all the functions and features you would expect to get for zipping and unzipping files with a high level interface. 15 September 2003 - We are very happy to be able to announce the immediate availability of version 1.0 of our BlackAdder IDE for Python and PyQt development on Windows and Linux. While BlackAdder has been available for some time in beta form, the final release is now here. If you are looking to develop applications quickly and easily, well then BlackAdder is for you. Combining the power and ease of use of Python with the cross platform windowing toolkit Qt available via the PyQt bindings. 09 September 2003 - We have just released an update to our popular charting and graphing application, Kivio mp, for Linux, Windows and OS X. Kivio mp compares very favoriably with Visio from Microsoft and offers a multi-platform alternative, all platforms for one price. You can read more, see screenshots and order from here. 28 August 2003 - We are very happy to announce the latest in our suite of database oriented, multi-platform tools dbRadar, which joins our other popular database tools in briding between the end user database access with Rekall, and the design, documentation and management of databases with DataArchitect. 21 August 2003 - With the recent decision by Sharp Japan to not release the very popular C750/C760 Zaurus PDA's in the US and Europe, we have secured a deal to import and convert these devices to English at a price lower than anyone else currently performing this function. In addition, there are some other incentives to buy from us. You can read all the details here. 14 August 2003 - How would you like to be able to make cheap or even free phone calls from your Linux desktop with excellent quality? Well our tkPhone application is for you then. tkPhone is our advanced Voice over IP client for the Linux desktop. This new release has even better optimizations than before. We also proudly use the Speex codec from the Xiph project (makers of the popular Ogg Vorbis audio format). 13 August 2003 - We are happy to announce the latest release in our family of Embedded Linux applications called tkcVox, a super optimized voice recorded for devices like the Sharp Zaurus. tkcVox uses next generation compression technology to be able to store up to an hour of continuous speech in as little as 2 Megabytes with excellent sound quality. Now verbal note taking is a realistic function on your PDA. 09 August 2003 - After a long wait, we are very please to announce the 1.0 release of Aethera, our email/PIM/communication client for Linux and Windows. Aethera breaks the stagnate paradigm that is used by virtually every other PIM out there with it's multi-platform component technology. Currently there are plug ins for Jabber Instant Messaging and Whiteboarding with Voice over IP, PDA synchronization and CRM coming in the next couple months. Check out details and screenshots here. 31 July 2003 - We get asked all the time to make a custom ROM for the Sharp Zaurus PDA, but the logistics of the idea really don't make it feasible, however we did come up with a solution. There was a talented coder working on a ROM already that was doing all the things we wanted to see in a ROM, so we donated some artwork and themes, and gave it a name and helped to promote it on our pages here. This ROM currently runs on the 5000 and 5500, but a 5600 version should be available in a week. 26 July 2003 - Quanta Gold version 3.6 is now available. This new release adds a number of significant improvements to the text editor, including much improved performance and word wrap capability. If you don't know about Quanta Gold, it's our web developers dream tool for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. If you do any work on the web, you'll want to make sure to try out one of our free demos. 08 July 2003 - Our own President just wrote an article for About Legacy Coding on the topic of using COBOL in modern environments, with some focus on our own COBOL compiler, Kobol. 30 June 2003 - We have just released version 2.0 of our popular database-centric RAD tool for Linux and Windows (ala` MS Access), Rekall. This is a major new release and provides drammatically more control over your application as well as the ability to create custom widgets. The 2.0 release also marks the availabity of our Rekall Run Time module. This allows you to pay just $149.95 and get an unlimited run time license for your Rekall applications. 26 June 2003 - Kobol is our popular multi-platform compiler and IDE for the COBOL language that we've been selling since early 2002. We've now expanded the scope of Kobol by making the compiler available for the popular open source IDE Eclipse. You can read details, see screenshots and purchase our plug in from here. 24 June 2003 - PDAGeek has just posted a very positive review of our popular tkcMail email application for the Sharp Zaurus line of embedded Linux based PDA's. 30 May 2003 - Well what a pleasant way to start the day, there's not one, but two reviews of our products that showed up today quite by surprise. First there is a review of our tkcCard end user database system for the Sharp Zaurus line of embedded Linux based PDA's. 10 May 2003 - We have a lot of software for the Sharp Zaurus 5000/5500 series, but we get asked a lot if our software also runs on the newer 5600/B500. There is a fundamental differenece in the new device that required we test all, and modify some, of these applications. At this point we appear to have everything working properly with the new 5600/B500 units. We also get asked about the C700, which we are working on, every app must be modified to work properly on the device. If you see an order option for the C700, then there is a version available. 21 April 2003 - We have a new release of our popular web development tool QuantaGold. This release is mostly a bug fix release, and a lot of that was to enhance the Mac OS X support. If you do web development and haven't tried QuantaGold, do yourself a favor and try out a free demo for any of our supported platforms, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. 17 April 2003 - Kivio mp is our popular multi-platform charting, drawing and diagramming tool (like a combination of Visio and Corel Draw). Kivio mp comes with a huge collection of stencils too. Here is a list of the updates: 15 April 2003 - We've just released version 3.3.5 of our popular tool for C/C++ and Java development, KDE Studio Gold. This new release has the following updates and changes: 15 April 2003 - tkJabber is a free version of our tkJabberPro Instant Messaging plugin for our Aethera PIM system. If you don't know, Jabber is an open source, XML based Instant Messaging (IM) protocol that not only has its own server protocol, but will interface with all the popular IM protocols such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo Chat, ICQ and even IRC. 11 April 2003 - We have a very exciting new application for you astronomy buffs available for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. It is tkcSky, and is the most complete and comprehensive astronomy application available. Did you know Mars is going to be closer to the Earth than it has been in 50,000 years starting this summer? It will be 85 times brighter in the sky. This is a great time to get in to astronomy. 20 March 2003 - Now you can make cheap or free phone calls anywhere in the world with our new tkPhone application for the Linux desktop. tkPhone is a SIP based Voice over IP (VoIP) application that supports a variety of high quality codecs, including Speex from Xiph. Your PC to PC calls are complete free of charge anywhere in the world, and if you want to make PC to Phone calls, then just get a super inexpensive phone card from iConnectHere. This is also the perfect companion to our tkcPhone VoIP application for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. 16 March 2003 - are pleased to announce the availability of PyQtDoc 1.0, a Windows/Linux application for providing rapid access to documentation for the popular PyQt set of Python bindings for Qt. 06 March 2003 - We are very happy to announce the availability of DataArchitect version 2.1.5, our database diagramming tool. This release adds OS X support to the existing Linux and Windows support (all platforms, just one price for them all). DataArchitect continues to evolve in this release with a variety of enhancements and updates. 04 March 2003 - In our never ending quest to turn the Sharp Zaurus into the ultimate PDA, we've just released 2 new products for it. They are tkcCard, a lite weight, easy to use, flexible data management system. You can create any type of arbitrary table with arbitrary fields, a very handy app and only $14.95. If you found tkcRekall was just too much horse for you, give tkcCard a try. 22 February 2003 - Our multi-platform answer to Visio, Kivio MP has seen the release of version 2.7.1. This new release has a variety of improvements to the 'smart' connector as well as a 20% speed improvement on Mac OS X. That's right, for just $89.95 you get a collection of almost 40 stencil sets, and Kivio MP for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Protect your investment and your training time with Kivio MP. 19 February 2003 - We've just released version 3.5.1 of QuantaGold for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. QuantaGold is a web developers dream tool with support for almost every scripting language you can imagine as well as HTML wizards for forms, widgets, javascript and CSS. Price is just $39.95. 16 February 2003 - We have just made available the 1.1.1 release of Rekall, our answer to MS Access on Linux and Windows. This new release provides a lot of usability improvements as well as support for our new drivers for DB2 and ODBC, which will come available in the next few weeks. If you need to develop database centric applications, then Rekall is your best answer. For only $69.95, how can you go wrong. 11 February 2003 - We are happy to announce the release of version 1.3 of our Kobol product for Linux and Windows. Kobol is a multi-platform IDE and compiler for the popular COBOL language. This new release add's support for our new optional debugger as well as a number of enhancements and fixes to the IDE and compiler. Make sure to check out our free demo. The compiler, for all platforms is just $59.95 and the debugger is only $24.95. 15 January 2003 - Our CEO Shawn Gordon was interviewed today in the Sydney Morning Herald as part of the Technology Section. He discusses some of the issues around RedHat 8 and the splintering of Linux and its affect on commercial software developers. 14 January 2003 - While we swore we'd never do this, we had a lot of requests, so we decided to work with CafePress and make some merchandise available. You can either go direct, or from our site. 12 January 2003 - There is a very nice and thorough review of Rekall, our RAD database centric development tool (similar to MS Access) over at LinuxMuse. Check it out. 20 December 2002 - We are very excited to tell you about our latest product for the Sharp Zaurus Linux based PDA. We have now released tkcPhone a Voice over IP (VoIP) application that allows you to use your Zaurus as a phone, either to make free calls between computers, or to make PC to phone calls through an exchange like Net2Phone which we have formed a partnership with and we will be offering direct reselling of Net2Phone for you. Prices are as low as $.02 per minute in the US and $.03 per minute internationally, but calling to another PC is free. This will be available about the end of December 2002. 13 December 2002 - We'd like to tell you about a pet project of ours that has been developing for some time now called ProgRock.com. It is an internet radio station that plays a lot of hard to find progressive music. Classic stuff like Rush, Yes, ELP, Genesis, etc., as well as new stuff like Dream Theater, Spocks Beard, Ayreon, Pain of Salvation and much more. It is free to tune in, and you can request whatever you want to hear, see what what is currently playing, was played and what is coming up. Just click on the Listen Now link on the page. 03 December 2002 - Kivio mp is our multi-platform charting and diagramming tool for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Kivio is meant to be similar to Visio from Microsoft, but we take it a bit further, we also include a variety of free form vector drawing tools, like a light weight Corel Draw. 29 November 2002 - Our President and founder, Shawn Gordon, just did an interview with Linux and Main that is mostly centered on our Embedded applications for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. 27 November 2002 - We have now released Rekall version 1.1. Rekall is our RAD DBMS centric tool for Linux and Windows. Think of it as similar to MS Access but supporting more databases and using Python instead of Basic for scripting. This release is notable for having Windows support, and lots of enhancements and improvements. We will be releasing our first commercial database plug in for DB2 shortly. 18 November 2002 - We have just released version 3.3 of our popular IDE for C/C++ development on KDE, KDE Studio Gold. This new release is notable for supporting Java in addition to C/C++. Prices start at just $24.95. 06 November 2002 - QuantaGold version 3.5.0 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X is now available. Quanta Gold is a the Web developer's dream tool. Use its simple point-and-click interface to quickly and easily create powerful websites, even using the latest scripting languages like PHP, Python, DTML, and many more. Keep an eye on the growth and structure of your site with its special tree view. Take advantage of its syntax highlighting to easily read your code. All this and more is possible in Quanta Gold -- the professional-level tool for creating dynamic websites. 01 November 2002 - We're happy to announce a partnership with ThinSoft Inc. where we are offering a bundle of our tkcJabber product with their WinConnectZ that allows you to remotely access and control a desktop Windows PC (its pretty wild). The list price for WinConnectZ is $49.95 and the list price of tkcJabber is $19.95. The price of the bundle is just $59.95, so it's a great value. 29 October 2002 - Adding to our growing list of applications for the Sharp Zaurus PDA is our new shopping list program, tkcShopper. This is really a hard core shopping list management program with store profiles, and all sorts of handy tools. Make sure to check it out. 27 October 2002 - If you aren't already aware, tkcRekall is a version of our Rekall product for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. You can think of it as kind of like MS Access, but way cooler of course :). People have asked for a less feature filled version that cost less money, so we decided that the easiest way to do this was to actually just make a 'Lite' version that has only support for xBase and no other databases. We have now made this available for just $24.95. We will also be making available some real beginners guides to help you get started even more. 22 October 2002 - We are happy to announce the release of tkcRadio for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. tkcRadio is a great companion to our tkcPlayer product which plays MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files on the Sharp Zaurus. tkcRadio plays streaming audio from the Internet allowing you to sample a wide variety of webcasters music, much more varied than what is available on terristrial radio. We are offering a free version of tkcRadio that plays just streaming Ogg Vorbis, see the tkcRadio web page for details. 21 October 2002 - A review of tkcCalendar has recently been posted over at PDA Tweaks. tkcCalendar is part of our PIM suite for the Sharp Zaurus PDA running Embedded Linux and Qtopia. 18 October 2002 - We have just released tkcWhiteboard for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. This is a collaborative drawing tool that allows you to interactively work on drawings with other people over the internet. What is especially interesting is that we use the Jabber protocol (and you thought it was only for Instant Messaging) as the transport. It is very fast and doesn't require any changes to the Jabber server, so it can be used pretty much anywhere. 14 October 2002 - We are pleased to announce the availability of version 2.5 of Kivio mp our Visio(tm) like tool for Linux and Windows. This new version includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes. When you buy Kivio mp, you are getting the entire library of 30+ stencil sets as well, almost a $300 value all on it's on, for prices starting at just $89.95. Try out a free demo and see what you think. 06 October 2002 - More reviews have surfaced on our software for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. You can read this review on our new tkcExpense applications, and this review of our popular tkcVideo application as well. 30 September 2002 - After over 2 years of development, our personal finance package Kapital for Linux and KDE, is now at a 1.0 release. Kapital is available for both KDE2 and KDE3 and works with the new gcc3.2 based distributions. 25 September 2002 - Being huge fans of Ogg Vorbis audio format (instead of MP3) and not able to find a really simple and easy to use ripper for Linux and Windows, we decided to write one, the results being tkcOggRipper. This program is freely available in binary form, the reason is that it uses some of our proprietary libraries, but we are interested in feedback if you have it, just use our reporting system. 19 September 2002 - There is a delightful review of our Jabber instant messaging client for the Sharp Zaurus, tkcJabber that you can read at Open For Business here. 18 September 2002 - We've release two new games for the Sharp Zaurus, they are tkcRotator and tkcLoadRunner. Both are great additions to our growing family of apps for the Sharp Zaurus and are priced at just $4.95 each. 15 September 2002 - A short but fair review of tkcPlayer has shown up over at Linuxlinks, you can read it here. 12 September 2002 - A couple months ago we announced tkcExpense for the Sharp Zaurus PDA and after discussions with the initial beta group and internally we decided to shelve that project and go for a real hard core featured expense app and so today you see the fruits of that labor as the revived tkcExpense. Currently priced for just $14.95 on our web site, you are going to love this app, check it out here. 22 August 2002 - There is a nice and short interview with our CEO Shawn Gordon over at OSNews. If you really like to get into the talkbacks, it's been linked to by Slashdot, DesktopLinux, LinuxToday and PCLinuxOnline 21 August 2002 - We are very happy to release version 1.2.0 of Kobol our integrated IDE and compiler for the COBOL language on Linux and Windows. This new release has some fantastic new updates to the compiler such as support for the SCREEN-SECTION and DISPLAY AT coordinates, as well as accessing command line run options. Free demo's are available and the prices start at just $39.95. 05 August 2002 - we are very pleased to announce the availability of tkcToDo for the Sharp Zaurus. This baby is far beyond what you would expect from a ToDo app and is more mini-project management. We're told it is so powerful that it will grow hair where you want it and impede growth where you don't want it :). All this power for only $14.95. Remember what we always say (if you ask), "If you don't buy our software then we both lose money" :) 03 August 2002 - You didn't even know you wanted it, but now you won't be able to live without it. tkcRace is a classic race car game for the Sharp Zaurus, it's fun to play and a great way to kill time or act like you are busy :). It's priced at just $9.95, get yours today. 01 August 2002 - Adding to our ever growing list of embedded applications for the Sharp Zaurus PDA is tkcMemo. Strangly there is no memo pad application on the Zaurus, so tkcMemo fills the gap and adds other features as well for just $4.95. 30 July 2002 - tkcVideo for the Sharp Zaurus is now available for just $19.95. 11 July 2002 - tkcRekall is a port of our desktop Rekall application for Linux and Windows to the Sharp Zaurus PDA. This is a serious application, with serious capability, you can design or deploy on the desktop or on the Zaurus (you have to own both products). 10 July 2002 - We were quite surprised to open up the current issue of Infoworld to see they had done a write up of our exciting new Kobol multi-platform IDE and compiler for COBOL. The author admits he knows nothing about COBOL, but doesn't waste the chance to say how bad COBOL must be, however he liked our Kobol product. Go figure. 03 July 2002 - We have release the first commercial plug in for our Aethera eMail/PIM suite, namely a Jabber Instant Messanger client called tkJabber which integrates seemlessly with Aethera. You get the advantage of SSL support, free updates and soon more integration with Aethera where chat logs can be filed into Aethera folders, IM connection information on the profile, click on a user in an email or contact folder and start an IM conversation. tkJabber is just $9.95 and available now. 03 July 2002 - Holy smokes are we excited about this one. We've expended a massive amount of resources on Aethera for the last couple years and we are closing in on the final release now. This 0.9.9 release has lots of neat improvements, you can get it at www.sf.net/projects/aethera. Make sure to use our new online bug/feature tracking system at https://www.thekompany.com/mantis/login_page.php to send us your comment. We've got SSL and IMAP going real good in this release, you'll like it. 02 July 2002 - We are pleased to announce version 3.4.3 of QuantaGold is now available. QuantaGold is a powerful tool for creating and maintaining sophistacted web sites using PHP, Perl, Python, ColdFusion, Zope and other popular tools. This new release adds both Java and JSP to an already powerful product. 24 June 2002 - Due to popular demand we are please to announce bulk discounting available to the public. The discounts start at 5% for 3 products and scale up to 30% for 10 or more products. This can be any combination of desktop or embedded products. You can see the exact grid that breaks it down here and here. This also marks the discontinuation of our tkcBundle embedded product, which was a bundle of most of the embedded applications. 21 June 2002 - Kobol has been reviewed over at Newsforge. 20 June 2002 - DesktopLinux.com has come up with a cool idea that they are calling wIndependance Day. Follow the link to check it out, but it's a pretty cool idea, and we even dontated a prize for it :). 11 June 2002 - It was announced today that theKompany.com has won the Trolltech Developer Contest for the Sharp Zaurus for our tkcJabber application. 06 June 2002 - There is a nice very nice write up of our new Kobol product over at Linux and Main, make sure to check it out. There is also a sidebar on Kobol over at Slashdot. 04 June 2002 - We've just release some major enhancements to our tkcCalendar product for the Sharp Zaurus. If you own a Zaurus and don't have tkcCalendar, you're really missing out. 30 May 2002 - We are pleased to announce the release of TeamDiagram version 1.0.0 in cooperation with CodebyDesign. 24 May 2002 - We are please to announce that Fry's Electronics (also on the web as www.outpost.com, but we aren't listed yet) and Microcenter, 2 popular chain stores in the U.S. are now carrying our full range of products. I stopped by my local Microcenter and they have very good prices as well. 20 May 2002 - We just keep adding to our growing list of applications for the Sharp Zaurus. Our latest is tkcAddressBook. If you're a Zaurus owner, you owe it to yourself to get it. 17 May 2002 - KOBOL is we hope an obvious play on words for COBOL, which stands for COmmon Business Oriented Language, so we refer to KOBOL as KOmpany Business Oriented Language. KOBOL is fully ANSI COBOL compliant and has even implemented the full Object Oriented extensions to COBOL that were just recently finalized by the ANSI committee, and not successfully or fully implemented by any other COBOL that we are aware of. 14 May 2002 - We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of SQL Project for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. SQL Project is a; multi-platform multi-database, integrated development environment for people who create and maintain SQL scripts. The Advanced SQL Editor (ASE) is built into SQL Project and all of its features are available. Both of which are built into DataArchitect versions 2.1 and later. Look here to see what features SQL Project has in addition to those found in ASE. 13 May 2002 - We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Advanced SQL Editor (ASE) for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. This is a standalone version of the new Advanced SQL Editor, which is also included in Data Architect v2.1.0. The idea is simple: not everyone necessarily needs all the features of Data Architect, so we've decided to break them out as separate programs for those that are interested. For use on Mac OS X you will also need to install our new macODBC, which is included with your purchase. 07 May 2002 - There is a new and short interview with our President, Shawn Gordon that you can read here. 06 May 2002 - For those of you that don't know, Rekall is our answer to MS Access/Paradox/Foxpro on Linux (Windows availability should be out next month). This release is mostly notable for the following: 29 April 2002 - We've just released updates of just about all our embedded applications for the Sharp Zaurus. All the software benefits from improved memory management, but in particular we've added shape and text tools to tkcPainter, and the ability to launch applications for associated file types in tkcExplorer. Updates were also done to tkcCalendar, tkcPlayer and tkcEditor. If you don't have a Sharp Zaurus you should check them out, they are really cool. 24 April 2002 - We've got a couple of maintenance releases today. First is Rekall version 1.0.3, this is primarily a bug fix release to our RAD tool for databases. Next we have version 3.4.2 of Quanta Gold where we've beefed up the FTP interface, fixed the KDE 3 interoperability issue and some PHP highlighting problems. 22 April 2002 - We are very pleased to announce yet another application in our growing stable of software for the Sharp Zaurus PDA. tkcCalendar is an enhanced Calendar for the Zaurus providing features and usability not found in the default application. It is now available for just $5.95 and you can read all about it here. 21 April 2002 - We've just made some updates to several of our embedded applications, namely tkcFTP, tkcPlayer and tkcEditor. You can check out all our embedded applications here. 17 April 2002 - We keep telling you that Mac support is coming and now it is finally starting to arrive with some infrastructure pieces. With that we are please to announce the availability of macODBC, a generic ODBC interface and manager for Mac OS X. You've probable heard about Microsoft support of OS X, but they aren't even talking about ODBC till a later service pack of Office for the Mac, and not at all as a stand alone. macODBC is available today for just $9.95. 12 April 2002 - What can we say but, WOW! The response to our embedded products has been fantastic. A new website dedicated to the Sharp Zaurus is zaurus.loveslinux.com and they have just put up a very thorough review of our entire product line for the Sharp Zaurus. Make sure to read it here. There has also been stories at ZDnet and almost the same story at Yahoo as well as an original piece at Linux and Main, make sure to check them out. 11 April 2002 - We're excited about this one. As you've noticed we have been releasing a lot of software for the Sharp Zaurus lately, and our newest is tkcPlayer. This application brings a real slick interface to playing MP3 files on the Sharp Zaurus as well as the ability to play Ogg Vorbis files, which makes the Zaurus the worlds first portable Ogg player. If you've got a Zaurus, you gotta have this. tkcPlayer has been added to tkcBundle so for only $74.95 you get all of our embedded apps for the Zaurus, a savings of about $30. 09 April 2002 - You've been looking for something to replace MS Access on Linux? Well Rekall is it. We're using Python as the scripting language, not some half baked version of Basic that has been hacked to pieces. Rekall is currently running on Linux, but the Windows release is coming soon (you get it for free with your purchase) and we are also working on a Mac release (also free with your purchase). 06 April 2002 - Now that the Zaurus Linux based PDA from Sharp is shipping, we’ve added to our growing stable of applications for the device with two new offerings: 05 April 2002 - Today we make version 3.4.1 of Quanta Gold available. Quanta Gold is our premier web development and maintence tool for Linux and Windows. This is a maintenance release that adds several bug fixes, improvements to the FTP interface and the addition of syntax highlighting for 'tex'. 03 April 2002 - You've all been waiting so long for it and now we are in the home stretch. Beta 8 of Aethera is now available. This has numerous bug fixes and usability enhancements, I think you'll like it. We've got our first commercial plug in done, a Jabber Instant Messaging client that has been nicely integrated and will go on sale in the next few days. We're expecting the 1.0 release now in May. 20 March 2002 - Today we released version 3.4.0 of Quanta Gold. QuantaGold is our premiere web development and maintenance tool with support for PHP, Zope, Perl, Python, Cold Fusion and more. This new release sees dramatic improvements in the reliability of the FTP client as well as enhancements to the CSS editor and an updated user interface. Prices start at just $39.95 and free demos are available. 17 March 2002 - Our President, Shawn Gordon, has a essay on running a commercial company in an open source world over at Linux and Main. Make sure to check it out. 14 March 2002 - We've released version 0.9.7 of our PIM application Aethera. This new release has a number of bug fixes, usability improvements, speed improvements and KOrganizer 3.0 now fully integrated. Download a copy and check it out. 09 March 2002 - Kivio mp 2.4 is now available. This release is primarily a bug fix release, but it does add one very important feature, and that is the ability to save a drawing out as a .png graphic file for easy sharing or embedding in various types of documents. 22 February 2002 - PDATweaks has posted reviews of both tkcMahjongg and tkcPlayer for the Sharp Zaurus PDA that you might like to read. They also have a nice review of the Sharp Zaurus itself. 20 February 2002 - You've been begging for it, and now it's here, the latest Aethera beta. 18 February 2002 - We have made KDE Studio Gold version 3.1 available today, this mostly consists of a bug fix release, but if you haven't tried KSG for your C++ development yet, you really should. 14 February 2002 - Hot on the heels of our 1.0 release comes Rekall 1.0.1. Rekall is our RAD tool for database development on Linux/KDE. This release addresses some minor bug fixes and various usability issues to make it easier to use. 13 February 2002 - We have now released version 0.9.7b of Kapital, our personal finance manager for Linux. This new release has much improved QIF support as well as a number of bug fixes and notably it has been localized for German and Italian. If you don't already own it, check out the demo. 09 February 2002 - Interest in our new Embedded applications for the new Sharp Zaurus 5x series is very high it seems. Linuxdevices.com has written a mini review of them that is very favorable. Check it out. 07 February 2002 - We have released version 3.3.3 of QuantaGold, our web development system for Linux and Windows. This release is primarily a bug fix release, but if you haven't tried it yet, check out the free demo. 04 February 2002 - Sharp Electronics has been getting a lot of interest on their new Zaurus 5x Linux based PDA and we jumped in with both feet. Today we are premiering the "embedded" section of our web site and a whole suite of applications for the new Zaurus as well as a special bundle price of only $49.95 for everything we have for it, a savings of over 30%. Read the press release here. 27 January 2002 - Rekall 1.0 is now available. Rekall is our programmable DBMS system for Linux (and soon Windows). It is in the spirit of MS Access, but can work with MySQL, PostgreSQL and others and uses Python as its scripting language, which also has an integrated debugger. 25 January 2002 - We've decided to blow our our inventory of Erics Ultimate Solitaire, so for a limited time you can pick up this great card game for Linux for just $5 plus shipping & handling. 10 January 2002 - We've released a new Kivio mp, our premier flowcharting, graphing and vector graphics package for Linux and Windows now has a new release with more features and bug fixes. 08 January 2002 - Quanta Gold is our web development software for Linux and Windows. Quanta Gold is designed for the professional web developer that needs sophisticated project management abilities as well as all the features and hooks that a modern web site needs. 07 January 2002 - Well this new year has brought even more renewed interest from the media it seems. Dekstoplinux is running an interview with our CEO, Shawn Gordon. 04 January 2002 - Tina Gasperson of Newsforge has written an interesting piece that we are part of, check it out here. 02 January 2002 - theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 0.7 release of Rekall, a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The objective of this release is to be feature complete and we now build Qt and KDE versions of the application, the point of the Qt version is for MS Windows support which will be available in February 2002.. We have also added an integrated debugger to the Python scripting, as well as fixing bugs. Our current timeline has a 1.0 release available in late January 2002. 30 December 2001 - Well we had a nice surprise today when reading the yearly roundup at LinuxPlanet. Seems Dennis Powell thought we were one of the more interesting things going on this year. Thanks Dennis, you can read the section here, we also recommend reading the whole story as it was a good read. 21 December 2001 - As a thank you to all of our customers, and what we hope will be customers :), we've discounted all of our software by $10 from now until the end of 2001. If you've been waiting to buy, it's never going to get better than this. Remember, with most of our software you get free lifetime updates, so there is no advantage in waiting. Check it all out here. 19 December 2001 - You know you've been wanting it, and now it's here - Beta5 of Aethera can now be downloaded here. For those of you that don't know, Aethera is our email/PIM/general purpose information management tool. This release has the application upgraded to Qt3.0, email with IMAP, sticky notes, contact management and infrastructure to support plugins such as KOrganizer, Palm sync and Jabber IM. Grab it, try it, let us know what you think at aethera@thekompany.com 10 December 2001 - It's been a long road, but we are now basically on a fast track for a 1.0 release of Kapital by the end of January. In this release we've made the source available under our restricted source license and we also have a version for FreeBSD. We have greatly improved QIF import and merged, added scheduled transactions and a number of bug fixes. 26 November 2001 - Well our engineers have been working over time recently and we've got some good updates for you. DataArchitect is now at version 2.0 and has a totally new UI. QuantaGold is now at version 3.2.0 and has some great new features in the editor and advanced HTML preview capability. Kivio mp has some great new tools in it like undo/redo, grouping, non-standard alignment lines (such as diagonal) just to name a few. If you don't already own one of these great products, check out a demo. 09 November 2001 - We are very excited to announce the availability of Quanta Gold 3.0 for Linux and Windows. This is our premiere tool for creating and maintaining professional websites using PHP, HTML, ASP or virtually anything you want. See the press release here. 06 November 2001 - We are pleased to announce the avaliability of KDE Studio Gold 3.0 final, and DocBrowser 3.1 (which is included in KSG Pro). You can read the meaty details about the release here. 19 October 2001 - theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 0.6 release of Rekall, a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The objective of this release is to be feature complete prior to the conversion to Qt from KDE. We have also added an integrated debugger to the Python scripting, as well as fixing bugs. Our current timeline has a 1.0 release available in late November 2001. 12 October 2001 - Major news on the Kivio front. We have now released "Kivio mp" for Multi Platform. This application is our flowcharting and diagramming tool, but it now runs on Linux and Windows (soon Mac OS X) all for the same low price of $99.95. As part of your purchase you get all of the currently available stencils, currently over 30. 10 October 2001 - We are pleased to now offer HancomOffice 1.5 for sale through our web site. As you know, some products from theKompany will be featured in HancomOffice 2.0 Professional, and now you can buy 1.5 from us as well for only $45 plus S&H. You get a free upgraded to 2.0 Pro edition with your purchase. This is a great office suite with excellent MS file format support. 20 September 2001 - Good news, release candidate 2 for KDE Studio Gold 3.0 is now available. We believe this will be the last release before we press the CD's. The other good news is that we now have a demo available as well, due to popular demand. 12 September 2001 - Words cannot express our feelings over what happened on September 11. I was roused at 6am by one of my Romanian programmers telling me what happened. My wife and I spent the day stunned as the news unfolded. We've received many notes from people around the world expressing their sympathy and support. Our hearts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this horrific tragedy, everything else seems to loose meaning right now. Shawn M.Gordon/President 28 August 2001 - We have very exciting news today. We have now partnered with HancomLinux of Korea to provide a full office suite that will run on Linux/Windows and Mac using the features of Qt3 from TrollTech, which is what KDE is built on. This will involve us putting versions of our Kivio, Rekall, Quanta Gold and Aethera products into the suite. At the same time our very own founder and CEO Shawn Gordon has now taken on the dual role of CEO for HancomLinux U.S. You can read the details here. 27 August 2001 - Today we have made version 1.3.0 available of DataArchitect. We have dramatically improved the interface to PostgreSQL and generic ODBC. For reverse engineering we now bypass ODBC and get the information direct from the PostgreSQL catalog tables. Reverse engineering foreign keys is also now supported. General improvements including a new syntax highlighting SQL editor. 13 August 2001 - On Tuesday August 13, The Linux Show will be interviewing our President Shawn Gordon, and DataArchitect engineer Peter Harvey at 8pm Central time, which I think is GMT-5. Make sure to check it out, should be interesting. [update] If you missed it they have archives of the audio stream and there is a summary at Linux Weekly News. 12 August 2001 - Through Phil Thompsons tireless efforts, we've received the following information. 11 August 2001 - We are please to announce the release of DataArchitect version 1.2.0. This update has much improved support for direct database integration as well as ODBC support. Check it out here. 10 August 2001 - We are very please to announce the latest release of Rekall, our personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE and Linux. You can get the full press release here. We hope you enjoy it! 30 July 2001 - Bogdan has done three new sets of Kivio stencils, two are for the network, they are Wan 1 and Wan 2 and then there are Weather mapping symbols. Check out the whole library here. 26 July 2001 - The fine folks at Gui Lords have written up a very favorable review of our new DocBrowser product. 20 July 2001 - A nice in depth interview with our President/CEO Shawn Gordon is up on Slashdot. Check it out and find out more about us. 16 July 2001 - To celebrate the release of all our new products we are reducing the price on PowerPlant to just $14.95 plus S&H till the end of July. Get it at this reduced price while you can. |
