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Adobe confirmed earlier this week that work has been progressing on bringing Flash to Apple's iPhone. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen made the comments during the company's second quarter financial conference call, but Apple seems to be moving in a different direction.
Remember when hardly a week went by in the early months of 2008 without some sort of Apple product announcement? The past few weeks, Adobe has been doing its best Apple imitation, with a slew of product news aimed at creative professionals.
Amid concerns that users of its Window XP Service Pack 3 operating system may be vulnerable to online attacks, Microsoft has finally broken its silence and explained which XP users need to upgrade their Adobe Flash Player software.
Adobe has announced Acrobat 9 Pro, an updated version of its PDF-creation software. The software is also available as part of the new Creative Suite 3.3.
Users of Adobe's Creative Suite 3 software are complaining that files saved to network volumes are being corrupted, and have linked the problem to their recent update to Mac OS X 10.5.3 "Leopard."
Adobe has moved to scotch widely-reported rumors claiming Creative Suite 4 will ship in October, with company senior vice president, John Nack, slamming the speculation as being "just made up."
Adobe made a prerelease test version of the Flash 10 Player available for download for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux from the Adobe Labs Web site.
Adobe has postponed a promised update to its Photoshop Express online image-editing product, citing the discovery of a bug just before launching the update.
Adobe on Monday announced that its venerable visual Web site creation tool GoLive has been discontinued. The company has ceased development and sales of GoLive effective Monday, April 28.
For improving the look and feel of browser-based applications, AJAX technologies work wonders, but RIAs (rich Internet applications) take the browser to a whole new level. RIAs deliver a consistently richer user experience, with functionality and data access more closely approximating native desktop apps.
Adobe said that soft skills such as critical thinking, creativity and team collaboration are becoming increasingly important in the 21st Century.
Adobe has used the current NAB 2008 trade show in Las Vegas to add native support for the Sony XDCAM EX camera format in Premiere Pro CS3. The company says that the software a true file-based workflow without transcoding or rewrapping, providing a software-only, tapeless High Definition (HD) workflow—from capture to output. In September 2007, Adobe unveiled native support for the Panasonic P2 camera format in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, underscoring its commitment to integrate file-based camera formats into its line of professional video products. Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM EX are solid-state recording formats for video production that eliminate tape from the workflow, helping to reduce the time it takes editors to find a specific scene and eliminating the need to digitise footage from tape. Because Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 does not transcode or rewrap XDCAM or P2 formats into another file format, editors can deliver higher-quality footage and accelerate the video production process by editing the camera source files directly. The convenience of editing video natively, retaining valuable metadata information that makes it faster and easier to search through content. Editors can mix other file formats within the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline, combining content from multiple sources.
Adobe has announced that it's beginning an initiative to create an industry-wide open file format for digital cinema files, which it says will streamline workflows and help ensure easy archiving and exchange.
Adobe Systems has debuted a new media playing software, Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP).
Adobe Systems has announced the release of an update to ColdFusion 8that brings 64-bit support to Mac OS X v10.5 running on Intel-based Macs.
The next version of Adobe's Creative Suite, will be the first to be available as a 64-bit version - though initially only for Windows Vista. The Mac version will follow later.
Adobe Systems Inc's announcement that it has made available the pre-release alpha version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) to the Linux community will be "a huge benefit" to application developers, said one developer.
Adobe has announced a point-0 upgrade to its digital photography software Photoshop Lightroom, with a freely-downloadable beta version available too.
Adobe has released Flash Media Rights Management Server software, a new, scalable content protection solution that helps safeguard video content created for Adobe Flash technology against misuse. Aimed at broadcasters and media companies who are looking to deliver and protect video that can be viewed both online and offline, the new server integrates into existing and emerging media delivery workflows, including Adobe Media Player and video applications that run on Adobe AIR software.
Kodak has announced the winners of its Student Commercial Awards, which invited student filmmakers to make a 30 second ad off one roll of 400ft Kodak negative stock.
