According to a New York Times Bits blog report, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen met recently to discuss joint strategies to defeat Apple’s iOS platform. The story said a merger of the two companies was discussed.
Yesterday, Adobe announced Adobe Connect 8, a significant update to the company’s Web conferencing solution for powering effective and engaging Web meetings, online training and webinars. Based on the virtually ubiquitous Flash Player software, the latest version provides enterprises and governments worldwide with broad capabilities for delivering rich experiences across multiple devices, while maintaining easy, reliable meeting entry.
With Flash Catalyst "Panini," designers can leverage their skills with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks to rapidly prototype user interfaces for Flex-based websites and applications, and collaborate intelligently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder software. In addition, static artwork can be transformed into interactive projects for the web or for websites and applications, all without writing code.
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, providing publishers a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimize and sell digital content direct to consumers, through content retailers or leading mobile marketplaces.
Adobe is helping solve the challenges of delivering multiscreen experiences with both Flash and HTML5 acrossareas of content creation that include websites, digital publishing, online video, enterprise applications, and gaming.
Adobe's strategy is to help developers, creative pros, and entire organizations express themselves across the wide variety of devices that we are all using in our daily lives.
Today Adobe announced the new Acrobat X Family of Products which
includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and
Acrobat X Standard. Reader X will be available for download next month.
Yesterday, Adobe announced a major update to Adobe Scene7, the leading hosted cross media publishing platform, providing expanded offerings for optimizing rich mobile experiences and data-driven dynamic banners. In addition, the Adobe Scene7 platform now provides end-to-end video publishing capabilities for mobile devices and multiple screens, enabling non-technical users to deliver video to all customer touch points.
Adobe and Bloom Energy corporation announced that the installation of the largest commercial Bloom Energy fuel cell is complete. It's been designed to supply approximately one-third of the electricity required by Adobe’s downtown San Jose headquarters.
Read MoreAdobe released a preview of its upcoming Flash Player "Square", which enables native 64-bit support on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows operating systems, as well as enhanced support for Internet Explorer 9 Beta.
The Packager for iPhone, which is a feature of Adobe Flash Professional CS5 software and the Adobe AIR SDK 2.0.1, offers Flash developers a fast and efficient method to reuse existing code from ActionScript 3 projects to deliver native applications on iOS devices. It is also available as a standalone technology through this release on Adobe Labs.