Adobe Unleashes Acrobat.com, Takes on Google and Microsoft

«About one year ago, Adobe created tools for building documents collaboratively online: Acrobat.com. Not to be confused with the desktop version, Acrobat.com is meant for business collaboration, similar to Google Docs.
Now a full year later, Adobe is turning up the heat on its competitors with a series of big announcements. First, Acrobat.com is coming out of beta. Second, business subscriptions are going live. And third, it’s releasing an advanced tool to build spreadsheets, on top of the Presentations program it released last month.»
Mashable
Adobe Acrobat.com

Adobe Makes P2P Flash Video Available to Developers

«Adobe officially unveiled the P2P video streaming capabilities of Flash 10 to developers this week. The technology itself is still in its infancy, but the mere fact that Adobe decided to embrace P2P for Flash 10 made a lot of headlines earlier this year.Many people wondered whether Adobe was taking aim at the CDN market with this technology and whether we will soon all watch our YouTube videos in a P2P fashion.»
NY Times | GigaOm

Photoshop Lightroom 2 lançado pela Adobe

«A Adobe Systems lançou o Photoshop Lightroom 2, programa informático para gerir, adaptar e apresentar grandes volumes de fotografias digitais, com novas funcionalidades desde as versões mais antigas do Photoshop.»
Portal das Artes Gráficas

Photoshop vs Fireworks

«I recently had the opportunity to talk to eight talented web designers about the applications that are crucial to their work. Half use Photoshop, while the other four prefer Fireworks. In the past, such questioning might have been akin to debating PC vs Mac but, since the Adobe acquisition of Macromedia, it is now less about brand loyalty and more about efficiency. »
Digital Web

Adobe Makes Flash Searchable - The Holy Grail of Website Usability?

«Adobe announced today that it is teaming up with major search engines - notably Google and Yahoo - to "dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs)." In a press statement, Adobe said that it is "providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines." »
ReadWriteWeb

Adobe apresenta Acrobat 9 e acrobat.com

«Para a Internet, seguindo o lançamento do Photoshop Express, um programa de edição de fotografia online gratuito, a Adobe lançou o acrobat.com. Esta suite inclui vários serviços que, na fase beta ainda são gratuitos (...) Paralelamente, também foi apresentado o Acrobat 9. Entre outras novidades, estão a possibilidade de criar porta-fólios: um único documento, em .pdf, que pode integrar ficheiros em .flv, .swf, folhas de cálculos e apresentações.»
Portal das Artes Gráficas

Photoshop CS4 vai aproveitar capacidades do GPU

« A Creative Suite Next da Adobe (CS4) vai utilizar capacidades do processador gráfico e de aceleração física para melhorar o desempenho dos programas utilizados. »

Portal das Artes Gráficas

Adobe Launches Online Office Suite and New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9

«Acrobat.com is the new entry point to Adobe's suite of online services. Available now as a public beta, from here you can utilize the Adobe web office tools all from one cohesive and integrated suite that allows for anywhere access and online collaboration. At Acrobat.com, you have access to the following web office tools: Buzzword, ConnectNow, Share, My Files, and Create PDF.»
ReadWriteWeb
www.acrobat.com

Adobe disponibiliza três novas versões Beta

«A Adobe colocou disponíveis três aplicações que farão parte da próxima versão do Adobe Creative Suite. A empresa disponibiliza as novas versões beta do Adobe Dreamweaver, do Adobe Fireworks e do Adobe Soundbooth como downloads gratuitos no site Adobe Labs.»
Diário Digital

Flash 10 suportará 3D

"A Adobe disponibiliza a nova versão do Flash Player. A versão 10 já está em versão beta e pode ser descarregada da página da Adobe para utilizadores do Windows, Mac OS X e Linux."

Source: Exame Informática

Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere

«Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier to develop applications across devices—using Flash, of course. »
Tech Crunch
Open Screen Project