Adobe Flash 10 For Mobile In Oct
Adobe plans to ship a beta version of Flash 10 for Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian by October. Both BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone is not on the list. The availability of Flash 10 beta coincides with the Adobe Max conference.
Recently Google claimed that Flash can be replaced by HTML 5 which has the cability to support rich media applications online. Google showed a prototype YouTube created by just using web standards HTML 5. This could be an answer for showing flash like components on Apple’s iPhone.
Acrobat.com Launched
Adobe has moved Acrobat.com out of beta after 5 million people have signed up to use the service since its release in beta a year ago. Adobe will offer two paid subscription services: The basic service costs $14.99 a month or $149 a year, and includes being able to convert up to 10 documents a month to Adobe’s popular PDF format. In addition, subscribers can hold Web meetings of up to five people. The premium service costs $39 a month or $399 a year, and includes an unlimited number of document conversions to PDF and up to 20 Web meeting participants.
Planned features include shared team workspaces and smartphone access, as well as a spreadsheet-like application, Acrobat.com Tables, which joins the recently announced Presentations application on Acrobat.com Labs.
Press Release: Adobe Announces Major Update to Acrobat.com
Adobe Pushes Flash To TV
Adobe is expected to extend Flash and Flash based applications to your TV by the end of 2009. This is a big opportunity for Adobe to get its software out there into living rooms.
Adobe has already extended Flash to the mobile market but Apple iPhone yet to embrace this piece of software due to using too much processing and battery power.
Flash 10 Comes To Mobile Phones But Not iPhone
Adobe has announced that the company will release the full Flash 10 player (not the Flash lite) to mobile phones in 2010. Mobile phones running Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm Pre. The list did not include Apple’s iPhone.
We do know that Apple is working with Adobe in getting flash into iPhones.
iPhone Will Run Flash Soon
Adobe and Apple is working together in getting Flash into iPhone. Adobe CEO as saying that “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating. The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
Source: Adobe, Apple working together on Flash for iPhone
Adobe Reveals CS4
Adobe has officially unveiled its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) to the world which has some key new features including GPU acceleration, InDesign CS4, and much more. The CS4 product family consist of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services.
From press release, Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer at Adobe said “Designers and developers are shaping the way that people consume information, share ideas, sell products, tell stories and create memorable experiences — in print, online and via mobile handsets. Whether you’re creating a rich Internet application, a video or a best-selling magazine, Adobe Creative Suite 4 delivers powerful cross-media technologies that have the ability to elevate products, brands and ideas above the clutter.”
Full press release after the jump.
Adobe Releases Acrobat 9 With Porfolios, Sharing, Flash
Adobe has released the latest version Acrobat for Windows and Mac platforms which support embedding of Flash technology to create rich PDF documents. Another feature is the ability to create Porfolios and also added the ability for collaborators to co-navigate document.
Acrobat 9 has been launched in three flavors, including Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (which includes Adobe Presenter software). Pricing of Acrobat 9 is: Standard for $299 or $99 to upgrade; Pro for $449 or $159 to upgrade; and Pro Extended for $699 or $299 to upgrade.
Full press release after the jump.
Adobe Delivers Acrobat 9 With Flash Support
Adobe has reveaked Adobe Acrobat 9 software, an upgrade to its popular document management technology which has native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to unify a wide range of PDF Portfolios, store video files in PDF, new compression feature and new collaboration feature. All of this can be found on Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro beta.
Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Business Productivity Business Unit said, “The expectations organizations and individuals have for communicating and collaborating in the workplace continues to grow significantly. The ability to break through and communicate a message in a compelling way has never been at a greater premium. Acrobat 9 is a response to this environment and is poised to fundamentally change how professionals communicate and collaborate using electronic documents.”
Source: Adobe Press Release
Adobe Revealed Adobe.com
Adobe is going after Google and Microsoft by launching the most ambitious web 2.0 application: Acrobat.com, a suite of interative tools that combine document creation, sharing, white boarding and A/V communications. Acrobat.com is now released as public beta for free signup.
The features are file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor (not as good as Microsoft), and web conferencing which take advantage of PDF, Flash and Air technologies. The hosted services are Buzzword, ConnectNow, Create PDF, Share and My Files.
Source: Adobe Press Release, Acrobat.com
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uses Graphics Card Acceleration
Adobe Photoshop CS4 will take advantage of your graphics card acceleration to improve speed. The 64 bit only CS4 was demoed and TG Daily saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly. Another impressive feature was the import of a 3D model into Photoshop, adding text and paint on a 3D surface and having that surface directly rendered with the 3D models’ reflection map.
Source: Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration
