Adobe Updates Server Software
News Adobe Graphics Server 2.0 replaces AlterCast, released early this year to kick off a broad push into enterprise software. Publishing-software giant Adobe Systems announced on Monday a new version of AlterCast, the server software it developed to...
[September 10, 2002, 10:43]
Adobe Publishes Merged Package
News Adobe Systems is set to announce on Monday the release of new versions of Photoshop and other key publishing and graphics products, but some of the biggest changes won't be in the applications. The software maker plans to combine Photoshop, the...
[September 29, 2003, 10:10]
Adobe Prints Profit For Fourth Quarter
News Software publisher Adobe Systems reported record revenue and income for its fourth quarter, buoyed by a new version of one of its main graphics packages and by strong growth for its publishing products.
[December 12, 2003, 10:50]
Nuggets: Adobe Ups Web Portfolio With GoLive V4.0
News Contrary to reports of Adobe being bought by those cheeky Quark chappies, the graphics giant went on a bit of a spree itself and acquired GoLive Systems Inc.s Web publishing technologies to add to its own portfolio.
[February 23, 1999, 16:31]
Sun Loses Software Head To Adobe
News Adobe is a graphics software powerhouse that sells popular titles such as PhotoShop and that acquired rival Macromedia in 2005. John Loiacono, Sun's executive vice-president for software, is leaving the company to join Adobe Systems as senior vice...
[March 17, 2006, 8:15]
Microsoft Moves Flash Rival Into Spotlight
News Microsoft's answer to Adobe Systems' Flash Player has an official name — Silverlight — and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the web. With the rapid rise of web video, the competition between Microsoft...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Chizen Talks On Major Moves
News Adobe's $3.4bn purchase of Macromedia has been one of the big stories in software this year. With an "intra-quarter business update" forecasting Adobe will once again beat analyst expectations and the merger with Macromedia almost put to bed, you...
[November 10, 2005, 11:20]
Adobe To Launch Beta Test For Flash Player 10
News Developers can also now target code to render through graphics processors, speeding up performance and freeing CPU bandwidth, Adobe says. Adobe is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software.
[May 15, 2008, 8:37]
Sun Builds On JavaFX Script
News But when it comes to "client" devices, such as desktop computers, Adobe's Flash took over where Java started. It seems a lot of this action is happening now with Adobe's Flash and perhaps Microsoft's Silverlight.
[May 14, 2007, 13:43]
Acrobat Reader For Linux Ready
News Adobe doesn't sell Linux versions of its major desktop titles, such as Photoshop and InDesign, though it does for server products that automate publishing tasks and help manage documents. Adobe will restore Linux support for its PDF-viewing...
[April 12, 2005, 9:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If you took away the Adobe and Microsoft stands, you could fit the rest in a large marquee. It's got lots of fab graphics stuff too - online rendering of 3D and rotating text, that sort of thing - which you'd expect seeing as the company comes from...
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News If you took away the Adobe and Microsoft stands, you could fit the rest in a large marquee. It's got lots of fab graphics stuff too - online rendering of 3D and rotating text, that sort of thing - which you'd expect seeing as the company comes from...
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
Engineers Use Microsoft Specs To Pre-empt Avalon
News Developers pay $399 for Xamlon Professional 1.0, which includes a sample application, software to converter Adobe Illustrator graphics into XAML code, and a one-year subscription to updates. Using Xamlon's tool, developers can make use of some of...
[October 5, 2004, 9:30]
HP: Trying To Be Thin Again
News The embedded software includes the Linux operating system and Netscape Navigator browser with Adobe Acrobat and Real Audio player, and Java-Virtual-Machine-compatible client. Launched at the high-end user requiring fast visualisation, the Entria X...
[August 27, 1999, 16:56]
Intel: Hyper-threading To Speed Desktops
News Software applications must be tuned to take full advantage of hyper-threading, and some such programs -- Adobe Photoshop and Windows Media Encoder 9, for example -- are available or coming to market now.
[September 10, 2002, 7:34]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I'm running Linux (OpenSuSE 10.3 in my case) in a VMware virtual machine for development, and Adobe Creative Suite CS3 for print- and Flash-development in Vista (I truly wish this would work on Linux some day)
[October 24, 2007, 9:10]
Microsoft Rival Aims At New Markets
News The company on Wednesday released a new version of its 602PC Suite, adding tools for converting documents into files based on Adobe Systems' widespread Portable Document Format. Besides a word processor, 602PC Suite includes a spreadsheet program...
[September 9, 2004, 10:15]
Sun: Open-sourcing Java Is 'done'
News Sun also hopes that it will increase programmer attention and make it a stronger challenger to rival technologies such as Adobe Flash. Those components deal with rendering graphics and fonts on a screen and with choosing colours.
[May 10, 2007, 11:43]
Adobe And Macromedia: Making Microsoft Sweat?
News In a statement announcing the planned purchase, Chizen talked of cost cutting measures to come; the notable areas of overlap between the companies' products are in graphics, where Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator are the market leaders ahead of...
[April 18, 2005, 14:50]
AMD Hammering At 64-bit Desktops
News Graphics applications, such as Adobe PhotoShop, would see performance improvements from 64-bit memory addressing. The Hammer," as it is known inside AMD, will the company's first server/workstation processor to offer 64-bit addressing.
[June 29, 2000, 17:16]
