Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Photoshop Touch apps – Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav – for Apple iPad in the Apple App Store. These three apps from Adobe were developed using the Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) to demonstrate the potential for new interaction between Photoshop and tablet devices.
Read MoreSeeing Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer take the stage at Research in Motion's Blackberry World conference in Orlando. A new partnership between once fierce rivals, which calls for Microsoft's Bing Search and Bing Maps to be built into the operating system of future RIM devices, would have seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
Read MoreAdobe has just broken the seal on Creative Suite 5.5, the latest instalment of its design and development software. Of course, the new release brings the usual round-up of improvements and tweaks, but the fireworks in CS5.5 lie in the suite’s new HTML5 and mobile app-specific capabilities.
Read MoreNot content with Apple's App Store as a software distribution mechanism, a group of iOS developers is taking matters into its own hands by working on a tool to let iPhone users browse and install applications and system tweaks through Safari.
Read MoreMicrosoft released a developer tool that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones. Microsoft officials described the new API (application programming interface) mapping tool as similar to a translation dictionary.
Read MoreThe company explains in an FAQ, posted on its website,
that it is not stalking its iPhone customers, but is instead trying to
get more accurate location information. It also admits that there is a
bug in the software that is making the iPhone store too much
information.
Sencha's HTML5-centric world has expanded with the arrival of Ext JS 4, the company's biggest upgrade to its flagship JavaScript framework in two years. The cross browser framework's new features include plug-in-free charting, customizable theming, as well as upgraded components.
Read MoreAdobe has released special out-of-cycle security updates to patch critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Mac. The vulnerabilities, referenced in a security advisory issued on 11 April, could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. The announcement was Adobe's second in four weeks concerning a zero-day vulnerability.
Read MoreApple was accused of invasion of privacy and computer fraud by two customers who claim in a lawsuit that the company is secretly recording movements of iPhone and iPad users. Vikram Ajjampur, an iPhone user in Florida, and William Devito, a New York iPad customer, sued April 22 in federal court in Tampa, Florida, seeking a judge’s order barring the alleged data collection.
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