Adobe News & Articles

Following Adobe's enormous acquisition of Omniture, in a deal roughly one-eighth the size, the company has snatched-up Switzerland-based Day Software, a well known (to us) maker of Java-based content repositories and enterprise-focused Web Content Management software, via an all-cash bid of about US$ 240 million.

 This week, Adobe (news, site) announced the addition of some interesting social media features to their Online Marketing Suite. Among them: advanced bid strategies for Facebook ads, and image ad support for the Google Content Network. 

Introduced when EMC (news, site) upgraded Documentum to v6.5, Media WorkSpace, the primary interface at the front of its Brand Management Solution, has just been upgraded to improve users’ abilities to manage their digital assets.

In what SDL (news, site) is describing as a “significant” deal, the information management vendor has bought Dutch XML editor developer Xopus in a deal that will initially cost €1.6 million (US$ 1.97 million), but could cost in the region of € 2 million (US$ 2.46 million) when it is finally closed.

Apple might not be a big Flash fan, but Google is. The Internet giant's browser, Google Chrome, now directly incorporates the Adobe Flash plug-in. 

With the release of Alfresco Enterprise 3.3, open source Enterprise Content Management vendor Alfresco Software (news, site) has jumped headlong into integration that allows for a much more flexible document infrastructure.

Document specialists ADAM (news, site) brings a redesigned user interface and other new features to its rich media document creation tool.

While document management, and more generally enterprise content management, have made strides in the past year, many companies are still fighting to management their content. Oracle has improved its document management capabilities by upgrading Documaker for insurance.

Microsoft vs IBM; Atari vs Commodore; Firefox vs Internet Explorer -- the biggest battles in computing pale into insignificance compared to the spat between Apple (news, site) and Adobe over Flash.

Everyone loves a winner and this year's batch of top CODiEs (news, site) have been announced, did your favorite company reach top?

This week, we bring you two mobile apps designed to improve life for creatives and people who like to get paid, as well as a report that sheds light on the security of your employee's mobile information.

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice are looking into the prospect of launching an antitrust inquiry against Apple (news, site) following the company’s ban of developers using non-Apple-sanctioned development tools, according to a story in the New York Post. Filing an inquiry doesn’t necessarily mean that charges would follow, the NYP reports.

When Adobe released its Creativity Suite 4, it was designed to make it easier to design websites that combine different types of media. With the recent launch of Adobe’s Creativity Suite 5, the aim is to improve creative editorial workflows and analytics; while offering some cool new design, video and photography tools.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

This week the outcry over the demise of Office 2010 mobile beta was so great that Microsoft had to apologize. It looks like it will also be having problems with Google Docs. And Xerox is down but far from out.

The latest release from companies looking to dominate the document space is Workspaces from Adobe (news, site) which aims to take email out of collaboration and enable enterprises to coordinate work on projects with teams that span multiple organizations.