Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.
The software company is to open source its tool for connecting data sources to flash-based rich internet application.
When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations.
Adobe will release Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 Tuesday and has begun working to open the software to third-party programmers.
Adobe has reportedly confirmed that its Flash technology is coming to Apple's iPhone.
Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.
With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.
Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?
At the 6sight conference in Monterey, California, John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, demonstrates developing technology that constructs a 3D view of a subject from images collected on the Internet.
Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within its own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007.
Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.
Adobe recently released a beta of their on-line version of Photoshop based on flash Photoshop Express. Despite terms of use that gives Adobe the rights to your photos, we think the beta version shows promise.
Adobe CS3 Production Premium is ideal if you handle a mix of design, animation and editing tasks for video, the Web, and mobile gadgets.
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
Adobe Systems on Tuesday made good on a promise to release a Linux version of the latest Flash Player, software that lets Web browsers view multimedia information such as YouTube videos or animated advertisements.
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