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Adobe Systems said Wednesday that it has acquired Day Software, which makes enterprise content management software, for $240 million. The acquisition of Day, based in Switzerland, is designed to bolster Adobe’s enterprise lineup, according to Adobe. Adobe will combine Day’s software–its flagship suite is called CQ5–with its Web content, digital asset management, and social collaboration tools
A new Adobe AIR demo is making the rounds today; it shows how Android phones can be used for user-to-user video calls. Built using an upcoming release of AIR 2.5, this app is the Android and Adobe developer communities’ answer to FaceTime. The more generous in spirit would call this move “cheeky.” At any rate, it throws yet another log on the bonfire that is the Adobe-Apple public dialog .
Adobe is working on a new kind of creative software specifically intended to help you publish digital magazines for tablet devices such as the iPad , the company revealed today. This new software, which will soon take its place in the Creative Suite pantheon, will be downloadable from Adobe Labs and will include tools that bridge the gap between print-oriented InDesign and software for interactive formats. The company’s goal is to make it simpler for more publishers to create and profit from tablet magazines like Wired’s hugely successful iPad offering
Adobe has picked itself up from Steve Jobs’ tongue-lashing and has announced it will be adding a 3D API to “a future version” of Flash. This will be good news to many who were wondering how the web would embrace 3D and it seems that Adobe wants to be at the forefront of this.
In a move that could keep ties with online games programmers strong, Adobe Systems is adding 3D graphics support to a coming version of its widely used browser plug-in. The move is an important advancement for Flash, a software foundation that eases programmers’ difficulties with incompatibilities among various operating systems and browsers
Are you still scratching your head wondering when Apple will finally allow Flash on its iOS devices? The person behind the Spirit jailbreak has now come up with Frash, which is basically a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android, allowing it to run on the iPad using a compatibility layer.
Security firm Sophos has urged Adobe to disable Javascript by default in its PDF products, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Sophos believes that Adobe needs to ‘overhaul its approach to building security in its products’ and could start by ensuring that users decide if Javascript is enabled. “The common thread in most, if not all, Adobe exploits is the requirement for JavaScript – as exploits will work correctly only if JavaScript is enabled,” said Vanja Svajcer principal virus researcher at Sophos
Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 has been finalised and is available now, bringing the latest fixes and upgrades to the public – and an Android final version will be released ‘later this month’. Although the beta of 10.1 has been around for a while, the latest version of Flash is now finalised, with Adobe’s latest software update bringing GPU acceleration for H.264 content – at least for Windows PCs.
Do you remember the critical Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat security issues that we highlighted to you a few days back? Well, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that the fix for Flash Player will be available by Thursday, June 10th, which is just a few hours away.
Adobe Systems said it will issue a patch for a critical hole being exploited in the wild by delivering an update for Flash Player by Thursday, and for Adobe Reader and Acrobat by June 29. The update of Flash Player 10.x will support Windows, Macintosh, and Linux, while the date for the release of a Solaris version is still to be determined, Adobe said late Monday