Today Adobe announced that Photoshop Touch is now available for iPad 2, via the iTunes App Store. Adobe Photoshop Touch offers core Photoshop features, as well as new capabilities for creating and sharing in an app custom-built for tablets. The app is a central component of Adobe Touch Apps, a family of six intuitive touch screen applications, inspired by Adobe Creative Suite software. iPad versions of the other Adobe Touch Apps are expected later this year.
Mozilla Marketplace will open its doors to developers at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona next week according to a statement made by the company. The news was announced along with details regarding the Mozilla Web Apps platform, which is supposed to level the playing field for building apps. At the event is expected also to be unveiled the upcoming mobile operating system of Mozilla, called Boot to Gecko.
Google Chrome joins the other popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and Firefox that was the first to implement the Do Not Track technology developed by Mozilla and will finally allow users to choose if their behavior on the web is used for advertizing targeting. The plans of the company are to enable this privacy feature by the end of the year.
Read MoreGoogle updated its Google Docs app for Android devices and enabled real-time document collaboration and editing without having to launch a browser. The app also got some overall improvements that enhance the user experience while creating, editing, uploading and sharing documents on Android phone or tablet.
Adobe announced its plans for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR development in the next one to two years. According to the company Flash is still better for the gaming and premium video markets, and with some architectural and language changes to the runtimes they will become well placed to enable the richest experiences on the web for another decade. At the same time Adobe AIR will focus on incorporating features from the core Flash Player runtime. Also in the future Adobe AIR and Flash Player browser plug-in releases will be increasingly synchronized and released simultaneously.
Read MoreLinux brings a full Ubuntu desktop on high-end Android smartphones. The two operating systems will run simultaneously on the same device and share contacts, messages and other common services so that you'll have Android for the phone experience, Ubuntu for the desktop at the same time. According to the company this is the best solution that will allow you to use the full potential of your dual-core phone.
In an interview Chrome leader Sundar Pichai promises that the Android version of the browser will be updated at a pretty healthy pace. After the release of the Chrome for Android beta which is available only for Ice Cream Sandwich OS at the moment, it has been downloaded between 100 000 and 500 00 times and Google expects that it will soon make money directly from the browser itself.
Google and some of the biggest advertising networks like he Media Innovation Group, Gannet’s PointRoll, and Vibrant were accused by the Wall Street Journal of exploiting the Apple's Safari security settings in order to allow a site set tracking cookies. The trick was used in the Google’s DoubleClick adverts that were found on major websites, including AOL.com, Match.com, TMZ.com and YellowPages.com.
Read MoreGoogle has released another Chrome update to improve the security of the browser. The latest version of Chrome 17.0.963.56 is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. It fixes a number of stability and security issues in Chrome like vulnerability to remote hacker attacks, and also includes a new version of Flash.
Read MoreIn a new sneak preview of the Photoshop CS6 Adobe showed a content-aware move tool that enables users to easily move complicated objects around an image without having to fill the pixels in the original place of the object. The new technology automatically fills in the hole left when a portion of the image was excised and will be further improved in the upcoming version of the software.