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Developers' Mixed Reaction To Macromedia Takeover
News Adobe's proposed acquisition of Macromedia took software developers by surprise, stirring a mix of apprehension and optimism about the fate of the joined companies and their respective software titles.
[April 19, 2005, 9:50]
Adobe Launches Rich Web-development Tools
News Targeted at both designers and developers, AIR and Flex 3 are described by Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch as technologies intended to "create highly interactive and expressive applications".
[February 25, 2008, 11:03]
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. But Adobe's Flash Player has become the dominant choice for streaming...
[April 17, 2007, 12:26]
Court Order Halts Adobe's InDesign Sales
News Trio has charged that Adobe's use of a database engine called C-Index violates its license with Trio because it allows third-party software developers to use C-Index without a licence. Adobe Systems has been ordered to stop selling its InDesign...
[December 20, 2001, 6:31]
Adobe To Launch Creative Suite 3
News Adobe is hoping to use this feature to attract developers away from its rival Quark. Adobe Systems plans to launch Creative Suite 3 later this month, marking the largest software release in the company's 25-year history.
[March 6, 2007, 9:03]
Adobe, Macromedia Bow Out Of Macworld
News Macromedia and Adobe Systems will be absent from the show floor. Macromedia skipped the San Francisco Macworld show in January; Adobe was in San Francisco but passed up going to last year's New York event, which Macromedia attended.
[June 24, 2002, 9:26]
Adobe To Hand JavaScript Code To Mozilla
News The code will form the basis for a new open-source project called Tamarin, which will be governed and manned by developers from Adobe and Mozilla. Adobe will donate software to run JavaScript programs in the Firefox Web browser, the largest code...
[November 7, 2006, 9:00]
Adobe: OS X's New Best Friend?
News Sales of Apple computers designed for professionals--Power Macs, in particular--have lagged partly because of the slow delivery of OS X-native applications from large Mac developers such as Adobe, analysts and industry insiders say.
[December 18, 2001, 9:45]
Start-ups Make Flash And PDF Simpler
News San Diego-based EHelp on Monday released a new version of RoboPDF, an application intended to allow ordinary office workers and consumers to quickly convert documents into PDF (portable document format), the widespread electronic publishing format...
[June 10, 2003, 10:34]
Adobe Puts Its Muscle Behind Apollo
News The introduction of Apollo, scheduled for a version 1.0 release in the first half of next year, underscores Adobe's expanding developer push, as it seeks to become the provider of choice to web developers and interface designers.
[October 26, 2006, 11:30]
Adobe Quashes Office-rival Rumours
News Adobe's Flash Player is widely used on the web, and AIR lets web developers create desktop applications. Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office.
[August 20, 2007, 15:17]
Adobe's Apollo Platform Goes Beta
News Adobe didn't originally envision a database with AIR, but it was the feature most requested from developers after the alpha release, he added. Adobe Systems on Monday plans to release a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called...
[June 11, 2007, 8:13]
Adobe Plans To Open-source Flex
News The company chose to create an open-source project for the Flex software to garner good ideas and contributions from developers outside Adobe, said Jeff Whatcott, vice president for product marketing at Adobe's enterprise and developer business unit.
[April 26, 2007, 10:12]
Adobe Releases Flash And Flex Upgrades
News Adobe Systems on Wednesday plans to release upgrades to its Flash Player software and Flex development tool for building Web applications. Flash Player 9 for Windows and Macintosh, available as a free download, has been rewritten to improve the...
[June 28, 2006, 10:00]
Adobe Opens Up Flash
News Adobe says its Open Screen Project will bring together prominent device manufacturers, content developers and telecommunications carriers, including Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Cisco, Samsung, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, ARM, Intel...
[May 1, 2008, 15:38]
Meanwhile, PDF Is Already An ISO Document Standard...
Blog Comment Kudos has to go to Adobe for making the PDF spec available to all in the first place -- otherwise us PDF software developers wouldn't be around today! What is called the "PDF Reference" has been available to download from the Adobe website.
[April 1, 2008, 13:42]
John Warnock: Adobe's CEO Talks To ZDNet, Part II
News Warnock isn't a regular visitor to Slashdot.org (popular site for Linux users and open source supporters) but in March Adobe (with Sun) put up a total of $90,000 in bounties for independent developers to come up with specific implementations for...
[July 23, 1999, 14:08]
Sony Ericsson To Bridge Flash And Java
News Next week at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, the company will demonstrate Project Capuchin, which will allow software developers to create applications for mobile phones that can use pieces of both Java ME and Adobe's Flash Lite.
[May 1, 2008, 11:03]
W3C Sees Graphics On Mobile Phones
News In a development that could help Adobe erode some of Macromedia's vector graphics lead, the Web's most influential standards group issued a draft designed to make its vector graphics standard work more easily on cell phones.
[November 18, 2002, 8:47]
Adobe To Open Lightroom To Developers
News But that will change when Adobe opens up its interfaces to outside developers. Adobe released Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 on Tuesday, but bigger changes will come later when the company starts letting outside programmers add their own plug-ins to the...
[June 27, 2007, 11:26]
