Adobe is announcing the Lightroom 3 beta, an overhaul of the famous photo processing application, here is a sampling of the features that you will preview in the beta:

Redesigned import handling for streamlined and easier file management
Extensible online publishing on favorite sharing sites from directly within the Lightroom Library
Sharpening, noise reduction, and film-grain simulation to help you extract incredible detail and quality from your images
Portable sharable slideshows with audio designed to …

Adobe is moving its Flash on the iPhone frustration to a new strategy, it started to tell iPhone users that Flash is not possible on the iPhone because Apple has blocked or rejected it and Adobe is not far from the true, but this true has its roots in Adobe’s behavior on the mac, something that Apple doesn’t want to suffer on the iPhone.

Adobe has been the premier supplier of graphic …

Yesterday Google launched a free GPS Navigation App for their Android Mobile OS and while We all were expecting a simultaneous introduction on the iPhone, it didn’t happen and this is and will be normal from now on, Google will always favor its own Android Os and later decide if a launch for the iPhone or any other platform is worth. This situation made people to believe that Google can make Apple begs for this or any other Application …

At Adobe MAX, the company’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to create rich, interactive applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 is expected to be available later this year. In a sneak peek, during the MAX keynote presentation, Adobe demonstrated how developers can utilize Flash Professional CS5 to export applications for the iPhone, leveraging the same …

Adobe today unveiled Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are. A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Public betas for Google Android and Symbian OS are expected …

At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Palm is joining the Open Screen Project – a broad industry initiative dedicated to enabling standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices taking advantage of Adobe Flash Platform capabilities. The work of the Open Screen Project will help deliver Adobe® Flash® Player for smartphones on the new Palm® webOS™ platform. The unique capabilities of …

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. announces the availability of an updated version of Advanced PDF Password Recovery 5.0, a product to unlock password-protected PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat and compatible products. The new version supports the new Adobe Acrobat 9 format, offering a hundred times increase in password recovery speed for the new format thanks to a security weakness discovered by the company in Adobe Acrobat 9.

ElcomSoft, the company that discovered a …

Adobe poor dedication to the mac could really force Apple to add new programming features to Quicktime or to Keynote, if those features rival Flash on the iPhone or make Keynote a more iPhone oriented application then the future of Flash Mobile for the iPhone is in real problems, Apple has been tweaking Keynote with new interativity features that in next upgrades could easily be transform to meet the …

A new series of benchmarks from Arstechnica.com applied to the new Flash Player 10 on Mac and Windows show that while Adobe claims that Flash on Macs is up to the Windows version, there is a large gap in performance that puts in disadvantage the Macintosh.

Flash Player performance has been the Achille’s Heel for Adobe and we all expect a final solution to this problem in the most recent version, …

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver the most compelling Web applications, interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple browsers and
all major operating systems.

“Designers and developers know if they deliver video, online games, rich Internet applications …

Adobe today announced the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family, a milestone release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers — and packed with hundreds of feature innovations—the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production. With new levels of integration …

Apple has the chance of Steve Jobs’ entire life to take on Adobe and Microsoft in just one shot, how? Easy, if Apple merges itself with Corel, which market value is US$231,552,240, polishes Corel applications to meet the Mac guidelines, drop those applications that don’t represent a good chance to dominate any market segment, puts some resources in Corel Wordperfect, which the last time I used it in the ancient …

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Forbes’ Brian Caulfield took some time and examined the iphone from a different perspective, looking for what could make the iPhone a total dissapoinment. Caulfield named 7 of what he considers the bigger drawbacks of the little and cute iphone:

Here they are:
The Cost
No Flash
No Replaceable Batteries
Video Recording
No Cut-And-Paste
No Multimedia Messaging Service
No Voice Dialing

Cost
Apple wants to reach a bigger audience, AT&T can help, but in the …

Today the WWDC is almost reaching its end and we haven’t seen any news announcement from Adobe regarding Flash development for the iphone. Whatever happened is very strange because this is the event where Adobe could get more buzz if anything from them was shown. Adobe and Apple are having a matrimonial rupture, when they are not fighting, they are collaborating killing bugs on their applications.

Maybe Adobe is holding off the announcement for a more Adobe Centric …

Adobe Systems today introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a Web browser. Much like Adobe® Acrobat® software enabled the publishing of high-quality electronic documents that anyone can read, Acrobat.com enables individuals to truly work collaboratively on electronic documents. Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and Web conferencing — …

Qualcomm and Adobe today announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, …

Adobe Systems today announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders, including ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Also supporting the Open Screen Project are leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to …

Today at the NAB Show 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced significant momentum for Microsoft Silverlight resulting from new customers adopting Silverlight to deliver richer, more interactive media experiences on the Web. Building on recent support from major content providers such as AOL and NBC Olympics.com on MSN, Microsoft announced new adoption of Silverlight by media and content companies worldwide, including Madison Square Garden (MSG) Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, MNet and Yahoo! JAPAN.

“It’s exciting to …

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the alignment of the company’s mobile and platform operations as it moves toward an integrated technology platform and runtime environment for personal computers (PCs), mobile handsets and consumer devices. In support of this strategy, the Mobile and Devices Business Unit (MDBU) is joining Adobe’s Experience and Technology group, led by Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch.

“As the proliferation of digital content continues to accelerate, customers worldwide are looking to Adobe for a platform …