NewsFactor - Adobe Systems on Monday announced a major upgrade to its Acrobat software for creating and sharing documents. Adobe Acrobat 9 includes native support for Flash and other rich media plus new features for collaboration and sharing. Concurrent with the new software, Adobe has launched Acrobat.com, a Web site offering a suite of hosted services centered around the software. -- read full article
PC World - Adobe on Monday is set to unveil the next version of its Adobe Acrobat software, which adds support for the company's Flash... -- read full article
AP - Adobe Systems Inc. is launching a new version of its document sharing software Acrobat on Monday, and this time it can package videos. -- read full article
InfoWorld - AmberPoint is announcing on Monday an extension of its SOA runtime governance software to cover transactions flowing across complex heterogeneous systems. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A single unsecured smartphone can jeopardize the security of your entire organization. Here's how to manage the risk by using firm IT policies and mobile device management software. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Valve's Steam Client, which distributes and manages your games for the PC, announced a update called Steam Cloud. It lets users store profiles, key-bindings, and saved games online. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Members of a Brazilian technical committee said the process that led to OOXML's ratification was flawed, in part because not all participants were given enough time to make their views heard. -- read full article
Reuters - DISH Network Corp and
EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit
against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find
that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The syncing software has been overhauled to improve the speed, stability, and features for the latest Mac OS X operating system. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The satellite companies have asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent. -- read full article
AP - Brazil and India have appealed a decision to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents. -- read full article
NewsFactor - In the world of technology, success is linked to perceptions. Microsoft demonstrated its multi-touch technology in a Windows 7 demo at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, and the software giant may have hoped to overcome the perception that Apple owns touchscreen interfaces. Instead, some observers are wondering if Microsoft is making the same mistakes that now plague Windows Vista. -- read full article