According to Zscaler's most recent "State of the Web" security research report 56.46% of enterprise users running Adobe Reader have outdated version installed.
Adobe Systems has lowered a barrier to using its Digital Negative (DNG) format, releasing an early version of software that makes it possible to see image thumbnails in 64-bit Windows.
Software company Adobe Systems Inc. has acquired e-signature technology company EchoSign, the two parties announced on Monday. EchoSign's technology will be integrated with Adobe's document solutions including SendNow, FormsCentral, and CreatePDF.
Developers can now use the Adobe Flash Builder platform to develop applications for iOS devices, such as Apple's iPad and iPhone, as well as for the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
A so-called "dot upgrade" of a major software product like Adobe After Effects may imply that it's not significant enough for you to jump on board until the next full version is released. If you think that, you are dreadfully wrong. After Effects CS5.5 boasts enough major new features and productivity enhancements to rival any full version software release.
With the new Sony S1 and S2 tablets set to hit the market soon, Sony has now teamed up with Adobe for a couple of things. The first, being the announcement that all Sony tablets will indeed support Adobe Flash when they arrive at retailers. The second, being a new contest for Adobe AIR developers.
A prominent figure in the computing world made headlines last year for his thoughts on Flash. Simply, "Flash is evil." Of course, Flash either ran poorly on his company's products, or was completely unsupported on others. Despite any motivations or biases, he could be right over Flash being evil - if you consider the amount of critical vulnerabilities the thing attracts. In fact, Adobe's products managed to occupy five of the top ten list of PC vulnerabilities, dominating the list and beating out Microsoft which made up the list last year.
Adobe has acquired ownership of Nitobi Software; the company most well known for creating the HTML5 mobile framework applications "PhoneGap" and "PhoneGap Build". The financial terms of the deal were not discussed, and the acquisition deal is expected to close by the end of October 2011.
Audition, the storied professional Windows audio editing application, has finally made its debut on the Mac--both as a separate $349 application and as part of Adobe's $1,699 Production Premium and $2,599 Master Collection Creative Suite 5.5. Adopting an interface similar to Soundbooth's, Audition CS5.5 offers a greater variety of features and better performance. Despite its improvements, however, some audio pros and musicians will find Audition's current implementation unacceptable because of its lack of support for control surfaces and MIDI.
Adobe has confirmed it is slashing 750 jobs across its enterprise licensing biz and focusing on HTML5 work as part of a restructure to pump up its digital media and marketing software.
The biggest Apple-related announcement at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters trade show was the company's revealing of Final Cut Pro X. But the second biggest Apple announcement at the event didn't even come from Apple. Rather, it was Adobe's declaration that it will add support for HTTP Live Streaming to its Flash Media Server.
Adobe Systems has acquired Efficient Frontier in order to boost its abilities to power advertising campaigns that use social networks and search engines to reach consumers, the company said on Wednesday.
There's something appealing about Adobe's tri-partite Carousel photo management service. This easy-to-use image editor combos as a photo shooting, sharing, and syncing tool that lets you automatically back up, store, and share your photo collection via the cloud.
Adobe Senior Product Marketing Manager Chris Quek explains the company's cloud-based Carousel image sharing and editing service. When Adobe Carousel was announced, back in September 2011, the initial responses were that it looked like an expensive cloud storage service. But it's a little more ambitious than that. Quek talked us through what Adobe Carousel offers and where it might go next.
Adobe executives had a lot to be positive about during the company's quarterly earnings conference call with investors on Tuesday. While Adobe has a strong financial outlook for the rest of 2011, it's also thinking about the future of Flash.
The company, meanwhile, grew revenue by 29 percent and doubled its profits in its 2010 fiscal year. Revenue came in at $3.8 billion, up from $2.9 billion in 2009. Net income hit $774.7 million, up from $386.5 million in the prior year.
Photoshop users can now put their iPad to use as a palette to interactively blend colors as if they were paint and save them to swatches to use in Photoshop. Adobe Color Lava could be more responsive, but still it's a good companion to the leading digital art software package.
Adobe on Tuesday issued a critical security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A vulnerability was detected and confirmed in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh.
There are plenty of PDF viewer apps available for iOS devices, so it's a little surprising that it's taken this long for Adobe - deviser of the Portable Document Format - to release this CreatePDF app.
Adobe has revealed more details of its Creative Cloud mix of software and services for professional creatives, launched yesterday at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.
If you use the most recent versions of Adobe Creative Suite, exercise caution in installing Apple's latest version of OS X, Lion, which was released on Wednesday.
In this great giveaway we have a copy of the great Adobe Creative Suite Student and Teacher Edition 5.5 for one lucky reader and also chance for you to enter the Adobe Imagination Challenge where you can win a staggering £10,000.
Adobe AIR applications haven't exactly been renowned for their great performance to date, but that could begin to change with AIR 2.6, released today, which comes packed with major new features.
In a move that appears to be another step away from its Flash platform, Adobe has submitted the code for its Flash-based Flex framework to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to be managed as an independent project.
In a new phase of its attempt to grow beyond Flash, Adobe Systems has begun showing off a design tool called Edge that lets designers animate Web page elements using standard Web technology.
Adobe rolled out its latest software program designed for HTML5 on Monday. Although the platform is still in preview mode, Adobe reports on its official blog that the download count already exceeds 50,000 copies.
Adobe Systems and Apple may not see eye to eye over the Flash Player plug-in, but they've come to an understanding with the new app store era of software distribution.
Adobe plans to release six applications designed to be used exclusively on touch-based devices, including apps to execute creative tasks such as photo editing and Web page design, the company announced Monday.
While you might not have heard the term freemium, if you use any Web product that costs you nothing, then you have direct contact with the freemium strategy. That’s what happens when a tech company gives away a basic version of its product at no charge with the hope of attracting millions of people to use it.
Adobe has launched an official version of its Reader PDF app on iTunes, bringing full support for document reading, searching and printing to most iOS devices. This must mean Adobe and Apple are friends again?
Adobe today released a fix for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat and which reportedly has been exploited in attacks via Flash files embedded in Excel files distributed via e-mail.
Researcher documents a variation of the clickjacking technique that could be used to turn on a webcam and microphone direct from a web site without the user's knowledge or consent.
Adobe has published a security advisory in response to a critical flaw found in Flash Player. The vulnerability affects Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android, and also impacts the authplay.dll component included in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X.
Adobe has release the 10.3.185.23 update to Flash in the Android Market this afternoon. This update directly addresses two known security issues discovered recently (see security bulletins APSB11-12 and APSB11-13 for details), and brings the following bug fixes and enhancements:
Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web.
Adobe is to hand over its Flex SDK, which lets you develop applications for the Flash runtime using XML and ActionScript code, to an open source foundation. The company is committing to HTML 5 as the "best technology for enterprise application development".
Sometimes if you can't beat 'em, it's better to join 'em. Take what Adobe is doing in the HTML5 space, even though momentum behind standards-based HTML5 presents a serious challenge to Adobe's own Flash rich Internet plug-in technology.
The upcoming version 6.4 of Adobe's DNG Converter will be the last to run on the older Macs, said Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty in a blog post over the weekend. The software is used to convert digital cameras' proprietary raw-format images into Adobe's Digital Negative format. It's useful in part because older versions of Photoshop aren't updated to support newer cameras, but using the DNG Converter can bridge the gap.
Adobe has released 'Release Candidates' of its Camera Raw 6.6 and Lightroom 3.6 raw processing software. The updates cover 5 additional cameras, namely the Canon Powershot S100, Nikon 1 J1, Nikon 1 V1, Panasonic Lumix DMX-GX1 and Samsung NX5. Also included are lens profiles for a number of recent Sigma and Nikon lenses, along with several medium format optics and the Sigma DP2x. Both updates are available from the Adobe Labs site. The company uses the term 'Release Candidate' to denote software that is well tested but not yet the final version.
Adobe rolled out the Creative Suite 5.5 family of products on Tuesday, which focuses on development and content creation for the mobile and tablet realm, and introduces a new subscription-based pricing model for the software suite.
Adobe and Apple used to be partners, with the maker of Photoshop being one of the biggest third-party Mac developers. Then Apple started releasing digital products that competed with its partner, and CEO Steve Jobs came out against Adobe Flash.
Adobe may dominate the PDF market on computer desktops, but it has largely left mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad to a range of competitors like the much-lauded GoodReader and Apple's own iBooks. No more.
Keeping its tradition of releasing a free public beta of its professional photo management software in advance of a major new version, Adobe has announced Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta. It's now available for download on Adobe Labs. The company seeks feedback from the community on how to improve the program before the final release of version 4, which will be sometime in the early part of the year.
Adobe, best known for its Flash animation tool used in a ton of web videos, games and other web animations, has announced that it has released a preview version of an all new product, Adobe Edge.
Adobe this morning confirmed a ZDNet report that Flash Player would be going the way of the dinosaurs, marking a fairly major shift in the company's mobile strategy. Instead, Adobe will focus on AIR for cross-platform mobile applications, and to ramp up its contributions to HTML5 -- with which it also had been working all along.
There's some potentially good news on the horizon for creative professionals who've clung to the CS3 and CS4 versions of Adobe's suite of photo-editing, illustration, and design applications, but who might want to upgrade to the company's forthcoming Creative Suite 6 (CS6) or subscribe to its new Creative Cloud.
Adobe Systems today announced a service it hopes will give TV companies a way to let people watch their video where they want--for example, cable TV subscribers who'd like to see a show on their computer, tablet, or mobile phone.
Adobe Systems has released Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.4.7 in order to patch two vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in attacks against companies from the defense industry.
According to a warning from Adobe, the attacks have been observed in the wild against Windows users running Adobe Reader version 9.4.6. An emergency fix is coming next week.
Adobe has updated Photoshop Elements to version 10, and there are a huge range of features to enable you to view, organize, manage and edit your digital photos. For many people, using a photo editing package is all about adding special effects to images, and there are dozens of new effects to choose from here.
Adobe's Photoshop companion apps for Apple's iPad are now available in the App Store. The three apps, Color Lava, Eazel and Nav, were first announced last month and follow an update for Adobe Photoshop CS5, which is required in order to use the companion apps. The apps work with Photoshop for PCs and Macs.
Adobe has released an update for Photoshop Lightroom, bringing it to version 3.5 and adding support for an increased range of digital cameras. The update supports more high-end cameras' RAW output.
Adobe plans a mid-cycle release of its Creative Suite 5 that will give the application some mobile heft including the ability to code once and push a mobile app to Android, Apple's iOS and Research in Motion's Tablet OS.
Adobe on Tuesday patched six vulnerabilities in the newest version of its popular Reader PDF viewer, making good on a late-2011 promise when it shipped an emergency update for an older edition.
Adobe will join Microsoft's Patch Tuesday train this month with plans to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the Adobe PDF Reader and Adobe Acrobat software products.
Adobe may have a few high-profile detractors, the most public being Steve Jobs, but as a company it's no fool. Flash has been the web animation solution since 1996, but lately it has been coming under increasing pressure to be replaced by HTML5. First Apple blocked Flash on its mobile platforms, now due to widespread browser support, HTML5 video is replacing Flash video on sites like YouTube.
Adobe Flash is a platform that is loved and hated in equal measure. Whether used to deliver video content or interactive games, Flash can be used to deliver a uniform experience across a range of platforms, providing it's not iOS. The Flash player is a browser plugin that allows for the deployment of this content online and the move to version 11 has a strong focus on performance.
Adobe Systems recently released a list of problems with Apple's Mac OS X 10.7 release, a k a Lion. Many products are also incompatible with the new 5.1 version of Safari and its handling of Java.
Adobe Systems today released the Enterprise Edition of its Digital Publishing Suite, a tool for creating interactive publications on tablets--and for making Adobe more relevant in an age of new computing devices.
Last week, Adobe stunned the tech world when it announced it was no longer going to develop Flash Player for Google's Android operating system. Adobe's official announcement didn't provide much information about why the decision was made.
Earlier today, Adobe made waves with a statement in a tech note outlining issues with Adobe products running on OS X Lion by claiming that Lion may have dropped support for hardware acceleration of Flash Player content.
Adobe has revealed tools for creating interactive elements directly inside InDesign that will most likely appear in the next version of the desktop printing application. They appear in a video on Adobe's site by Colin Fleming from Adobe's InDesign team.
On Wednesday, the company released a beta version of Flash Player 11 for the desktop, and this included a 64-bit Linux beta. In June of last year, Adobe murdered an experimental version of Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux, but it promised the penguin population it would revive the 64-bit Linux player in a future Flash release.
Concluding that its priorities should be on iOS and Android, Adobe Systems has stopped releasing its own version of its AIR programming foundation for Linux.
Adobe Photoshop could soon help salvage all those photographs you keep thinking would be "perfect if they weren't so blurry." Adobe recently demoed an early prototype for a one-click "deblurring" feature, tentatively called "restore sharp image," that turns a blurry image into a clearer and more usable photograph.
The day after acquiring EchoSign for its electronic signature technology, Adobe Systems and EchoSign are being sued by a company that claims EchoSign's technology infringes on five of its patents.
Adobe Systems last night updated Lightroom, its software for editing and cataloging photos, with support for the latest batch of small, high-end cameras.
Omniture says the next release of its flagship SiteCatalyst product will include data from about 45 social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google's Buzz and YouTube properties. The product should enable people to find out when a product is mentioned, whether it was in a positive context, and roughly how many followers the people involved had.
The company today announced its Switcher Program, which will allow people who have purchased any version of Apple's Final Cut Pro (or Avid Media Composer) to receive a 50 percent discount on Creative Suite CS 5.
Adobe is once again releasing software updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash. Adobe already unleashed an updated version of Adobe Flash itself, but today it is also releasing updated versions of Acrobat and Reader which both rely on a vulnerable component of Flash.
Adobe Systems has released its first update to Edge, a tool designed to help the company capitalize on the growing array of Web standards useful for bringing publishing and applications to the Web.
Japan represents Adobe's second largest country based on revenue and the company is cutting its second quarter outlook due to the earthquake, tsunami and its aftermath.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system would not support plug-in programs. That caused many in the industry to speculate that web sites that were made to be run on Adobe's popular Flash tools might soon be a thing of the past, to be replaced by sites that use HTML5. Now Adobe has issued its own statement about Windows 8 and its support of Flash in a post on its official blog.
Zend Technologies and Adobe Systems on Monday announced Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP, which enables developers to use PHP and Flash development skills to build rich Internet applications for mobile, Web, and desktop platforms.
Next-generation applications will be location-specific, offering users information and features related to where they are at any given moment, Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch said at the Open Mobile Summit conference on Thursday.
Adobe's decision to stop developing mobile Flash shouldn't surprise: Adobe can see there's more money in preventing people watching stuff than enabling them to do so.
Today, the first bit of Adobe-written code landed in the WebKit browser engine project, an early step to try to bring magazine-style layouts to Web pages using an extension to today's CSS technology.
DivX Plus Web Player is the first alternative to Adobe's Flash Player. It promises better performance, battery life, and video quality, all in one shot. If Flash content brings your computer to its knees, read on to find out if DivX is the answer.
Adobe is working on a patch for a newly discovered Adobe Reader vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild to infect computers with malware.
Cyberlink has unveiled the final release of PhotoDirector 2011, a photo-editing tool aimed at photo enthusiasts and semi-professional users. It takes a workflow-based approach to organizing and editing images, steering the user through the process of importing, managing, correcting and finally exporting and sharing photos.
Adobe kicked off its conference on Monday with a keynote speech by chief technology officer Kevin Lynch, in which he announced the company's acquisitions of Typekit -- which provides high-quality fonts for use on websites -- and also Nitobi Software, the creator of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. PhoneGap is a popular open source platform for building cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript.
Controversial "Flash cookies" can now be deleted from within web browsers like more traditional cookies, the software company behind Flash technology has said.
The Flash-versus-HTML war is mostly hype. HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript can't accomplish everything Flash can do today, and at their current rate of development, they'll take a long time to catch up (while Flash remains a moving target). Still, HTML5's capabilities are rich enough that many developers have wondered aloud whether Web standards will soon be able to replace Flash for some multimedia applications--particularly in light of Apple's refusal to allow Flash on iOS.
Adobe has revealed the first public beta of a new WYSIWYG web design tool, code-named Muse, which allows you to build entire sites without worrying about HTML, scripting or other low-level complexities.
Many applications let you create websites with little or no coding, but Adobe is betting print professionals are ready for one more. Adobe's new Web design program, code-named Muse, lets users take advantage of their familiarity with InDesign to build entire sites as easily as they might create brochures. But while Muse transports the page-layout paradigm to the Web intact, it offers features that establish it as an exciting new tool for making sophisticated, interactive sites.
Adobe has released public beta versions of Flash Player 11 and AIR 3. The desktop beta of Flash Player 11 offers new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich Internet applications, content, and videos across devices. Some of the features from the Flash Player Incubator, such as Stage 3D and 64-bit support, have been moved into this beta release.
Surf the web and it's ubiquitous. Ask most web developers building media content what runtime stack tools set they should -- or do -- target. The answer is simple: Flash.
Adobe patched 13 critical bugs in its nearly-ubiquitous Flash Player on Tuesday, but came under quick criticism from a security engineer who works for Google, a close partner of Adobe.
The CEO of Animus Solutions, Inc., a management consulting firm helping organizations solve the toughest enterprise issues, gives some tips on dealing with an Adobe audit and some gotchas regarding licensing.
While Adobe previously said it would support Google's WebM video format within their Flash Player software, it doesn't look like this support will be arriving soon.
A few weeks ago Intego discovered a new Trojan horse for OS X that poses as an installer for Adobe Flash. The Trojan attempts a somewhat complex attack that involves disabling security features and inserting into existing applications code that attempts to send personal information to remote servers.
LRPAD is an iPad app that will let you control Lightroom on your Mac or PC. Install the application, and then grab a free Lightroom plugin that acts as a go-between, and you can adjust most aspects of your photographs using slider controls on the iPad's touch screen.
Six out of every 10 users of Adobe Reader are running vulnerable versions of the ubiquitous PDF reader package, according to stats from freebie anti-virus scanner firm Avast.
Apple might have forced Adobe to kill Flash mobile, but Occupy Flash wants to unite the world in eradicating Flash from the desktop as well. The goal is simple: get everyone to uninstall Flash Player and you can join the fight now.
Adobe is stopping development of its Flash Player for mobile browsers, according to an exclusive report from ZDNet. The company will continue to support existing Android and BlackBerry Playbook configurations of the player, but future development will be focused on developing HTML5 and apps.
Research in Motion will continue to use Adobe Flash Player, at least for the BlackBerry Playbook tablet, even after Adobe announced it will discontinue Flash for the mobile Web.
A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
AlienVault Labs researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that takes advantage of the recently discovered zero-day Adobe Reader flaw used for attacking defense contractors.
Here it is, folks, the last version of Adobe Flash Player for mobile. Final. Kaput. Only, not really. While Adobe has halted work on future versions, we're still likely -- very likely -- to see the odd bugfix here and there.