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  • Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda

    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.

  • Microsoft to license Adobe's Flash Lite

    Even though it has plans to release a competing technology, Microsoft has agreed to license Adobe's Flash Lite technology for its Windows Mobile operating system and browser.

  • Adobe opens up tech warchest in fight with Microsoft

    Adobe Systems detailed a number of technology projects and products at its Max 2007 developer conference on Monday and gave glimpse of how it intends to make more money from online services.

  • Architect pays $90k for unlicensed software

    The Business Software Alliance announced today that Perth-based architecture firm Peter Hunt Pty Ltd had settled a legal claim that it was allegedly using unlicensed software via the sum of $90,000.

  • IBM bags $70m NSW wireless deal

    IBM has won the contract to build and supply the NSW Department of Education and Training's wireless network for 463 state schools.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Moonlight 1.0 hamstrung in Catch-22

    Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Adobe's rich JavaScript bankrupts security

    In the past week, the security environment around Adobe's Reader and Acrobat products has imploded, with yet more JavaScript vulnerabilities appearing. Adobe needs to look no further than Microsoft for a lesson in how to deal with these situations.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Acrobat-ic nightmares

    It's the message I always dread seeing on my computer screen: "the Adobe Update Manager requires your attention".

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    When keeping it real isn't enough

    Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.

  • Confessions of a naked Mac user

    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

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  • Q&A: Adobe on taking on services and Microsoft

    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.

  • NSW missed Linux opportunity

    By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.

  • Olympics are a boon for Silverlight

    Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.

  • Adobe CEO Chizen finds the right moment to leave

    With digital information exploding, Adobe's outgoing CEO sees room for innovation on the desktop and the Web.

  • Lights out for Silverlight

    It's been a couple of weeks since the full announcement of Silverlight took place -- now that other players have shown some of their cards and the dust has begun to settle, what can we take from it?

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Reviews (168)

  • Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

    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 to take Photoshop online

    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 Acrobat 8 Professional

    For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3

    With its streamlined tools, enhanced nondestructive editing capabilities, and better performance, Adobe Photoshop CS3 will look very attractive to almost any user.

  • Make your own PDF: Nitro PDF vs. Adobe Acrobat 7.0

    To offer print-ready forms, brochures, and booklets on a Web site, you must create documents in the portable document format (PDF).

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