Web 2.0: Adobe CEO confident against Microsoft, vague on iPhone

Web 2.0: Adobe CEO confident against Microsoft, vague on iPhone

Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, focusing particularly on the company’s Flash platform. His overriding message: When it comes to providing the underlying technology for web video, games, and other applications, this is Adobe’s game to… Continue Reading

Adobe brings Photoshop.com image editing to the iPhone

Adobe brings Photoshop.com image editing to the iPhone

Adobe just released a free iPhone version of its popular Photoshop application, allowing you to do lightweight photo editing on your phone.

Like the free website Photoshop.com, Photoshop.com Mobile is meant for casual users, not the artists who do heavy-duty image manipulation on the desktop version… Continue Reading

The iPhone finally gets Flash apps — but not Flash websites

The iPhone finally gets Flash apps — but not Flash websites

When Adobe announced the latest version of its Flash technology, a bunch of writers (including me) jumped on the fact that Flash 10.1 would eventually work on most major smartphones, except Apple’s iPhone. Looks like we spoke too soon. Sort of.

At its MAX conference in… Continue Reading

Adobe announces new Flash technology for pretty much every smartphone — except iPhones

Adobe announces new Flash technology for pretty much every smartphone — except iPhones

Update: Adobe just released some big news regarding Flash and iPhones.

As speculation continues about when Adobe’s Flash platform is coming Apple’s iPhone, a new announcement suggests Apple is becoming the odd man out. Adobe says its new, more mobile-friendly version, Flash Player 10.1 should soon… Continue Reading

Adobe to help Flash developers distribute their apps

Adobe to help Flash developers distribute their apps

With today’s launch of Flash Platform Services for Distribution (yes, it’s a mouthful), Adobe hopes to become a one-stop shop for web developers. Not only will developers use Adobe technology to build their web applications, they’ll use Adobe services to distribute, promote, monitor, and make… Continue Reading

Team Apart hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00

Team Apart hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00

[Update: The first 100 VentureBeat readers to click this promo link will be admitted to Team Apart's beta automatically.]

Online collaboration spaces, in the past year, have gone from high-concept, low-execution beta sites to a regular workplace tool. Google Docs, Adobe Connect, WebEx and Microsoft Office… Continue Reading

Adobe’s Mobile Flash to get accelerometer, multi-touch support in 2010

Adobe’s Mobile Flash to get accelerometer, multi-touch support in 2010

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One of the big topics at our MobileBeat 2009 conference last week was whether the future of smartphones lies in native mobile applications that we download, or in rich mobile websites that we access through our web browser. Now Adobe may be giving websites a… Continue Reading

Adobe shuts down for a week

Adobe shuts down for a week

The San Jose Mercury News reports that Adobe Systems, maker of the Flash player used for most Web video clips, has shut down its North American operations for the week as a cost-cutting move.

The move is striking because Adobe is, by most metrics, successful. In… Continue Reading

HTC Hero phone will have a Flash player

HTC Hero phone will have a Flash player

If you’ve got an iPhone in your pocket, you know what’s most conspicuously missing from it (besides a keyboard): a Flash player.

Adobe’s Flash technology has evolved in the past four years from being hated for the proliferation of “Skip Intro” website home pages, to being… Continue Reading

Adobe ready to make money from office software at Acrobat.com

Adobe ready to make money from office software at Acrobat.com

For the past year, Adobe’s online office software site Acrobat.com has been completely free, but that’s about to change. Core products like the Buzzword word processor will remain free, but Adobe says it’s now offering paid services too.

Acrobat.com is Adobe’s answer to online collaboration services… Continue Reading

Roundup: Signs surface of new iPhones, Google releases Page Speed, and more

Roundup: Signs surface of new iPhones, Google releases Page Speed, and more

Here’s the latest action:

More signs of new iPhones coming this summer – European mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has added spots for four new iPhone models to its inventory, according to AppleInsider’s sources.

Google introduces Page Speed –
It’s a Firefox add-on that gives suggestions about improving the… Continue Reading

Adobe gives web designers more power with Flash Catalyst

Adobe gives web designers more power with Flash Catalyst

With two new products available in beta testing today — Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 — Adobe is hoping to reinvent the way that websites and applications are built in the Flash format.

Flash sites (which may be most familiar to your average web surfer… Continue Reading

Acrobat.com challenges PowerPoint with collaborative presentations

Acrobat.com challenges PowerPoint with collaborative presentations

Acrobat.com, Adobe’s website of free office software, is unveiling a new tool today that marks the early steps towards competing with PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation-making software in Microsoft Office. As a part of Acrobat.com Labs, Presentations is still in early testing mode, with many features… Continue Reading

Adobe unleashes web video, widgets onto TVs

Adobe unleashes web video, widgets onto TVs

Adobe Flash, a platform for integrating animation and video into web pages, is making the jump to a television near you. Adobe’s newest take on Flash is slated to usher in a new era of enhanced living room gadgets – converting web-enabled TVs, Blu-ray players, and set-top… Continue Reading

Roundup: Aggregated links to newspaper web sites, and more

Roundup: Aggregated links to newspaper web sites, and more

Here’s the latest action:

As an online publication largely comprised of former newspaper journalists — It’s pretty obvious what we here at VentureBeat think about newspaper leaders demanding payment anytime anyone aggregates any of their content. But we’ll stay mum, at this point, out of respect… Continue Reading

Mobile Flash apps get better distribution, more money

Mobile Flash apps get better distribution, more money

In advance of this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe is making several announcements to encourage developers to build applications using its Flash and AIR platforms. The biggest announcements are a new distribution method for Flash Lite (the mobile version of Flash) and a… Continue Reading

Adobe and Apple working to bring Flash to the iPhone? We’ve heard that before.

Adobe and Apple working to bring Flash to the iPhone? We’ve heard that before.

Adobe Flash support has been at the top of everyone’s list of features they want on the iPhone since the device was first released in the summer of 2007. The apparent roadblock had been Apple, which didn’t think Flash would perform well enough on the… Continue Reading

Flash and AIR: Record downloads, winning platform race

Flash and AIR: Record downloads, winning platform race

Adobe Flash, the company’s platform for web applications and video, is already on virtually every computer everywhere, but the latest version is on an even faster track to world domination. Flash Player 10 and AIR have been downloaded a record number of times, the company… Continue Reading

Sony Electronics holds a virtual trade show

Sony Electronics holds a virtual trade show

Sony Electronics staged a virtual trade show today for fans of professional broadcasting equipment. The company said thousands of people registered for the event, which was staged by InXpo in Chicago.

The event marks the first time that Sony Electronics has endorsed the virtual trade show… Continue Reading

Adobe AIR brings web/desktop apps to Linux

Adobe AIR brings web/desktop apps to Linux

Adobe AIR, a platform for creating applications that transcend the barrier between the web and your desktop, is now fully compatible with Linux operating systems. Since AIR applications already work on Windows and Mac computers, this means developers can now build a single application that… Continue Reading