Imaja today releases Perspectiva 2.0, an iPad and iPhone calendar app upgrade providing new event mapping, extensive graphic customization, time usage charts, calculations, sharing, export, and much more. Perspectiva provides filtering and search, time calculations for analysis and billing, and many other features. This upgrade provides iOS 7 compatibility, event location mapping (an In-App Purchase), improved calendar navigation animations, and many other improvements.

AssistiveWare and Acapela Group announced today the release of Infovox iVox 4.0, which brings to Mac OS X a total of 31 new Text to Speech voices. These include the first ever genuine, natural-sounding bilingual American Spanish-English children’s voices, a male bilingual American Spanish-English voice, 16 expressive voices to speak with more emotion, four new specialty voices, a new Polish voice and our first Japanese, Korean and Chinese voices.

AssistiveWare and Acapela Group are proud to unveil the first ever genuine, natural-sounding bilingual American Spanish-English children’s Text to Speech voices, which are now available in AssistiveWare’s Proloquo4Text 1.1 text-based communication iOS app that gives a voice to people who cannot speak, AssistiveWare’s Pictello 2.1 visual story-telling iOS app, and in Infovox iVox 4 for Mac. With Infovox iVox, these new voices can be used with any Mac app that supports Text to Speech.

Paddle have today launched the latest Pick a Bundle promotion. This is a 3 week long bundle sale on 30 premium Mac applications and games. Visit the Pick a Bundle site and browse a selection of 30 titles that you are able to choose from. Curate a personalised bundle of 10 products that take your fancy, and pay one low price, no matter which products you choose. The promotion ends on February 18th, so head over to the site and take your pick while you still can.

MOSO has announced the release of Version 1.4.0 of the Xmplify XML Editor for Mac OS X. Xmplify is a powerful XML editor built specifically for Mac OS X 10.6 , and provides a fully XML-aware editing environment with DTD and XML Schema-based auto-completion, automatic document validation, XSLT and XPath support, live HTML preview and much more. Version 1.4.0 adds support for external XSLT processors, plus fixes and other improvements.

Ming Fu Design Inc. announces its Chinese New Year promotion. For a limited time, its iPhone app ManManLai Chinese is available for free from the Apple App Store. Available for all iOS devices, ManManLai’s integrated mobile learning environment helps Chinese language students master vocabulary and practice drawing Chinese characters. ManManLai includes the Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency exam vocabulary organized into four lists, from Beginner to Advanced levels.

KnowledgeMiner Software today announces Insights 3.0, an update to their outstanding self-organizing, predictive modeling application for Mac OS X. With Similar Patterns technology Insights 3.0 adds innovative forecasting to its adaptively learning modeling methods. Users in nearly any field can analyze data sets and build powerful models, which help to gain new insights into complex phenomena, predict future behavior, simulate “what if” questions, and identify methods of controlling processes.

Moondrop Entertainment launches the Drawp For School iPad app, an intuitive workflow management tool that saves teachers valuable classroom time while incorporating all the creativity tools of the original Drawp Unlimited app. Its innovative whiteboard interface is a collage tool with the enhanced features of audio, painting and photos. Drawp’s SimpleShare technology allows students and teachers to share work with each other via a simple swipe.

DistributorX announces new EasyCatalog Power Bundle that saves users over GBP700/$1000 on powerful database publishing solutions from 65bit Software. Modules included in this bundle are the Scripting Module, Pagination Module, ODBC Data Provider Module, Relational Module and the XML Module. Ideal for time-critical publications, EasyCatalog has quickly established itself as one of the most powerful and flexible database publishing solutions for Adobe InDesign.

Hong Kong based Cross Culture announces today Mergemill Pro 4.6.1, an update to their versatile data processing and static website generation tool. Easily extract data from many sources, transform them into desired formats, integrate them into a centralized data store, then analyze and summarize them into useful information. In addition to bug fixes and improvements, version 4.6.1 aims to bring users quickly up to speed with Mergemill Pro, by providing easy access to new training videos online.