Adobe is laying off 600 employees and will restructure its business, the company announced Wednesday after the stock market closed.
The SF Chronicle is reporting that the layoffs are in progress and represent 8 percent of Adobe’s global workforce. They will affect all regions and business units. Adobe plans to offer more details Dec. 16 during its regular earnings conference call.
“The global economic crisis significantly impacted our revenue during the fourth quarter,” Adobe’s president and chief executive officer, Shantanu Narayen, said in a statement. “We have taken action to reduce our operating costs and More»

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Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available. The company announced today that the latest version provides new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. It also provides more text layout options and better creative control. Developers can now use these filters, blend modes and fills to animate effects or change the effect on rich media content at runtime. Flash Player 10 also enables new capabilities and performance improvements in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. This includes easy-to-use 3D More»

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Adobe today announced its Creative Suite (CS) 4 software package. CS 4 includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services. CS4 is supposed to provide the design and development tools for cross-media technologies.
“Designers and developers are shaping the way that people consume information, share ideas, sell products, tell stories and create memorable experiences — in print, online and via mobile handsets” according to Shantanu Narayen, President More»

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Adobe announced today the launch of Acrobat 9 which includes native support for Flash and new collaboration capabilities. Users can now include Flash Player compatible video and application files into PDF documents.
Acrobat 9 also includes the ability to unify a wide range of content into a single document with the new concept of PDF Portfolios. PDF Portfolios enable users to assemble multiple media types into one, compressed PDF file that can be customized with several professional layouts and specific branding.
In addition, Acrobat 9 provides access to capabilities for collaborating live within a PDF document, enabled by working with More»

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Adobe has announced the beta launch of Acrobat.com, a suite of online services hosted by Adobe that allows you to create documents together and share them. It’s a software as a service (SaaS) solution intended to increase productivity and collaboration. The idea is that people can create documents faster without email attachments or version control issues.
They are starting with three apps:1. Adobe Buzzword for creating and reviewing documents together.2. Adobe ConnectNow for holding full-fledged online web conferences with up to three people.3. The Acrobat.com organizer for sharing 5GB of files with others online, including the More»

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TIBCO (The Information Bus Company) which sells business process management and business integration software is reportedly verbally committing to use Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The company plans to use Silverlight for their product development to create rich internet applications (RIAs) in cases where AJAX might not meet their needs.
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for creating RIAs on the .NET platform. In an interview with InfoWorld, Rourke McNamara, Director of Product Marketing for SOA at Tibco said that “Tibco likes Silverlight over alternatives, such as Adobe’s Flash platform, because developers can leverage existing skill sets More»

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I know I’m dating myself, but Bill Cosby had a pretty funny routine where a PE Teacher explains that the purpose of air is to pump up basketballs and volleyballs.
Now Adobe has launched their Air product (with a matching Kevin Lynch NY Times article, and GigaOm fan dance) to allow platform to allow browser apps to escape from their little Firefox and IE prisons and flit gaily across the desktop like “real” apps.
Now what exactly are the More»

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When it comes to Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies, application development professionals must choose between two paths: AJAX or Adobe Flex.
AJAX is the best bet for experienced web development shops looking to incrementally evolve existing web applications. AJAX is considered the fast lane to a better user experience. Selecting AJAX also raises the question of whether to go with a homegrown, open source, or commercial AJAX framework.
In contrast, Adobe is best for shops looking to completely transform their Web experiences. But to do so, firms must acquire the skills necessary to use Flex, which is the development framework for the More»

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Adobe announced plans to release an online beta version of its popular photochopping software. Photoshop, traditionally a slave to the desktop, will now have an online version dubbed Photoshop Express and is expected to be available by the end of this year followed by a full feature set version of the software we’ve all come to know in ‘08. The flash based beta will have basic photo editting capabilities such as red-eye removal, cropping, color adjustment, and touch-ups.
There are reports that Photoshop Express will be freely available online as well as licensed by photo More»

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When builders first started using steel, they built brick buildings that had steel supports. While this incremental approach made sense for existing builders, it came nowhere near utilizing steel to its fullest potential.
In a similar way, all the folks from the fat-client world (Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe AIR, Eclipse RAP) are trying to make a rich web interface look just like a PC client interface. Ajaxian had a good analysis of the recent Eclipse Rich Application Programming announcement here.
RAP, from More»

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