Quark plans big announcement on February 23

Quark announced that on February 23, will host a special event, worldwide online in order to make "a significant announcement, for the product".

This event is open to all interested parties and can be accessed online through a short registration process. Once registered, participants will receive instructions on how to access the event.

To the North and South America, registration is at this link.

In this region, the event starts from 8: 00 pm Pacific time; 9: 00 a.m. Mountain time; 10: 00 a.m. Central time; and 11: 00 a.m. Eastern time.

For Asia, Australia and New Zealand, registration is at this link.

For this region, the event starts at 4: 00 pm Eastern Daylight Time and 10: 30 a.m. standard time of India.

For Europe and Africa, registration is at this link.

For this region, the event starts at 11: 00 central European time; and 10: 00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time.

There has been a whirlwind of activity recently from Denver Headquarters of Quark. Less than a month ago, Quark announced its new Studio App, a module for the Quark Publishing System that makes it easy to publish iPad for medium and large enterprises. That same day, Quark made a variation of that software--called iPad publishing service for QuarkXPress--available for smaller operations that do not use the enterprise publishing system.

Quark's flagship product, QuarkXPress is currently at version 8.5, and runs on Mac OS X 10.4 or higher on PC or Mac PowerPC or Intel.

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Motorola Xoom pre-sale ' confirmed ' for the 20 February, Atrix 4 G on February 22,

Yesterday Motorola, come clean with the $ 799 price tag for 3 G/4 G Xoom tablet. Today, we might have a pre-sale date.

There were a lot of rumours about when the Xoom, unveiled at CES 2011 to January, it would actually go on sale-up to the point where this is just getting plain annoying.

First, a Facebook page for the Best Buy in South of Grand Rapids, Michigan listed the date in the shop as the 24th February. Last week, reports came in that would actually 17 February (which now is today). Since the price has been fixed with the last entry, you would think that would be valid.

Unless Verizon and Motorola are going to a real surprise and Xoom suddenly opens on their respective shops online later today, it is not true. But according to the Droid-life, today was to be the day of launch of presale, which has now been postponed to February 20, after "to comply with a sort of Motorola request." This seems pretty fair and Droid-life claims that this statement was "confirmed." We'll see for sure pretty soon.

In other news, Motorola, Engadget reports (based on an alleged leaked internal memo) that Atrix 4 G smartphone may show up at least a week ahead of schedule on 6 March. The note says that will now be 22 February. This seems a bit strange, since AT&T made an official announcement, so maybe that refers to a launch date pre-order.

In both cases, it is shaping up to be a great couple of weeks for Motorola!

[Image via Droid-life]

Rachel King is a freelance journalist based in New York and San Francisco.