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Adobe systems introduced its new eLearning tools to make it easier for educators to create and deliver online learning to students.

New hosted and license options – or Quick Start Bundles – for Acrobat connect pro, and new Curriculum Resources help equip faculty with the tools they need to engage students in online learning, Adobe said in a statement.

Web Innovation 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business opportunities.

This edition of WEB INNOVATION 2007 will focus on the following:

Indian American Shantanu Narayen has been appointed president and CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated from Dec 1.

He is to also to join the board of directors of the software company known for popular products such as Photoshop, Pagemaker and Acrobat Reader.

The Hyderabad-born, Osmania University graduate in electronics engineering is currently president and COO of the San Jose, California based company.

Adobe Systems plans to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft and Google.

Adobe, a major supplier of business publishing software and design tools, is looking to a team of former Lotus application developers to enable the hundreds of millions of users of Adobe Acrobat software to work together publishing shared documents.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Buzzword, one of a new class of rich Internet applications (RIA), was built by an 11-member team in Waltham, Massachusetts, who helped create the 1980s-era Manuscript, Lotus's second program created after its ground-breaking 1-2-3 spreadsheet.

"We were looking for a technology to create a modern word processor," Erik Larson, Adobe's director of marketing and product management. "The problem of collaborating on documents is not solved and we think we can solve it."

Melissa Webster, an analyst with market research firm IDC, said many people's initial reaction to design tools maker Adobe entering the word processing market will be: "What? Adobe?"

"The industry knows Adobe for its creative tools. We don't think of Adobe in the category of enterprise software vendors that might be going after Microsoft Office," Webster said.

The software marks a radical break with document-centric publishing by letting users collaborate on shared documents and allowing individual users to save data or format changes online.

It is an early example of Adobe's AIR software that works both online and offline on computer desktops. Buzzword features high-quality typography, advanced graphic capabilities and page-layout controls that text editors on the Web all lack.

Adobe executives said Buzzword could help raise consumer expectations about what is possible using word-processors, a category of software that has changed little in 20 years.

Word, a main component of Microsoft's Office suite of business productivity applications, has long dominated the market for word processors. Full of features, Word is aimed at desktop computer users. Microsoft is considering making an online word processor available via its Microsoft Works line.

Last year, Google introduced Google Docs, an online word processor that allows people to write and edit shared documents. But so far, the application focuses on basic tasks for small groups of individuals.

ThinkFree, a unit of South Korea's Haansoft offers a word processor as part of a suite of tools that works online and offline. Zimbra, which Yahoo recently acquired, also competes here. IBM recently introduced an online word processor as part of its Lotus Symphony suite of business productivity applications.

"Buzzword looks the same whether it is running in a Web browser or as a desktop application," IDC's Webster said of how Buzzword can work whether or not a user is online or offline, in their office, or disconnected while traveling on an airplane.

"Google doesn't solve this problem. Microsoft doesn't solve this problem. IBM doesn't solve it."

In a related move, Adobe has set up a new file-sharing service to its existing line of online document services. Codenamed "Share," the new Adobe service lets people share, publish and organize documents online.

Users select the documents they want to share, send a message to recipients and determine whether to let their files be publicly accessible or restricted.

Adobe officials declined to spell out how the company plans to distribute Buzzword, but said it will eventually be tied to its document management software used widely in business.

"We have a lot of opportunity to expose a lot of people to Buzzword very quickly," Larson said when asked if Adobe would build the word processor into Adobe Acrobat document control software or its related PDF document management format. "We are definitely going to integrate Buzzword into PDF workflows."

The acquisition is expected to close by the end of November. Adobe said the Virtual Ubiquity deal is not expected to have a material impact on its results in fiscal 2007. The founders of Virtual Ubiquity have agreed to join Adobe.

Users will be able to import or export documents from rival word processor programs into Buzzword. Buzzword allows users of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Apple Safari browser software to simultaneously collaborate on the same document. Document creators can set permissions for those who edit any document.

Adobe Systems Inc has released new software for its popular Flash Player that promises to bring the quality of live video on mobile phones closer to that of video on computers.

Adobe, whose software made possible the rapid rise of pioneering online video site YouTube, said Nokia and NTT DoCoMo Inc would use its new Flash Lite 3 in their new mobile phones.

Adobe said more than 300 million mobile devices equipped with previous versions of Flash had already been shipped and it expected more than a billion Flash-enabled devices to be available by 2010.

Adobe's Flash software is installed on about 98 percent of all personal computers and is used by virtually all popular online video sites, mainly thanks to the fact it works independently of the device that the video is displayed upon.

Gary Kovacs, in charge of marketing at Adobe's mobile unit, called Flash Lite 3 "the most significant advance we've made in mobile" and said it brought Adobe closer to being able to release software versions for mobile and desktop simultaneously.

"It's probably a few years away. We'll do it over the next couple to three years," he told Reuters.

Nokia's 3.4 million-strong mobile software development group, Forum Nokia, said it would launch a new development community on Monday to help Flash developers and designers.

Nokia, the world's biggest mobile telephone maker, announced a major new push into multimedia, including video, music and gaming last month, seeking to challenge Apple Inc's dominance in portable entertainment.

The head of Forum Nokia, Lee Epting, said in a statement: "Flash Lite 3 will enable us to deliver richer content to our customers, such as videos and animated ringtones."

Adobe, also known for its Acrobat document management and Photoshop software, said earlier this month that its profit more than doubled last quarter on strong sales of new products and as it makes inroads into mobile, video and office worker markets.

Adobe Systems Inc's Photoshop, Illustrator and other Creative Suite 3 programs have not been fully tested with the latest version of Apple's operating system due for release next month, which could lead to incompatibility issues.

A substantial proportion of Adobe users are also Apple Mac users, with many waiting for the new Mac OS X operating system, code-named "Leopard."

"CS3 hasn't fully been tested under Leopard," Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen said. "If it doesn't work, we will make the necessary adjustments."

He said Adobe had not received a final copy of Leopard with which the software could be tested.

"What I think Chizen is saying is that they want more time than what Apple is giving them to make sure everything works," said Chris Swenson, an analyst with market research firm NPD. "They just don't want any hiccups that could hurt sales," he added.

However, no comments have been received from Apple officials.

Apple has said it will introduce the highly anticipated new operating system in October. The release was delayed so Apple could deploy engineers to work on software for the iPhone.

It may be recalled that Microsoft's Vista operating system, which went on sale in November of last year, also has had some incompatibility issues with other types of software.



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Adobe has announced that it's Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 software is now available for pre-order, and is expected to ship in mid-February 2007.

After completing the beta test of over 12 months, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 now includes innovative features that streamline digital photography workflows.

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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.

The software is one ingredient needed to make Linux computers competitive with Windows and Mac OS X systems, for which Adobe released version 9 of the Flash Player in November. The new version will be distributed along with the software from the two major commercial Linux powers, Red Hat and Novell, Adobe said Wednesday.

Web users are being urged to upgrade their Adobe reader software as a security flaw is found in older versions of the program.

Millions of people use the reader software to view documents prepared in the popular PDF format.

Security researchers said malicious hackers exploiting the flaw could view victim's hard drives or use it to make phishing scams look more plausible.

So far there is no evidence that the bug is being exploited in the wild.

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the availability of Adobe Reader 8 software as a free download.

Adobe Reader 8 enables trusted information exchange between enterprises, government agencies, constituents and consumers who view, print, search, digitally sign and collaborate with PDF files.

It also features a new "Start Meeting" button that launches Adobe Acrobat Connect, an Adobe-hosted software service that provides real-time online collaboration through Adobe Flash Player.

Adobe Systems has released the public beta of Adobe Soundbooth software, an innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio, and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools.

Soundbooth, designed to deliver high-quality sound to Web and video workflows, enables creative professionals to quickly record, edit, and create pristine audio without any training in sound production. It has been tightly integrated with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Premiere Pro that enables users to easily remove noise from recordings, as also polish voiceovers, plus customize music to fit a production.

Hi Friend,

You may have heard some buzz recently about Adobe's release of Flex 2. Flex is a collection of technologies that combine to give developers a strong framework for building Rich Internet Applications. You may already be familiar with one of those technologies: Flash.

Please check http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flex-2-internet-applications

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