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The software, which was written with the company’s offline web apps platform Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), plays Flash-only web videos on Macs or PCs and works as an online and offline application.
Adobe said it has inked deals with a number of players in the entertainment industry including CBS, PBS, MTV Networks and Universal Music Group. [...]

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When Adobe Systems launched Photoshop Lightroom, it presented users with an all-or-nothing photo editing philosophy. But with version 2, which goes into public beta testing Wednesday, the company is changing course.
Lightroom 2 offers local editing abilities that permit photographers to edit just a patch of an image–whitening a person’s teeth, deepening the blue of a [...]

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Adobe’s Photoshop is the premier photo software offline. Now the company is hoping to make a splash online as well.
But the effort may be too little, too late.
Adobe plans to unveil today a slimmed-down, online version of its marquee image-editing software. Targeted at mainstream consumers, the free service, dubbed Photoshop Express, will allow [...]

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Was Steve Jobs trying to send an unofficial message to Adobe Systems? Something on the order of “get it in gear, guys, if you want to stay on my VIP list”?
As my colleague Tom Krazit reported Tuesday afternoon, Jobs used the Apple shareholders’ meeting to publicly dismiss the the full-blown PC Flash version as “too [...]

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There’s something in the air, and this time, it’s not from Apple. Adobe announced today the official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, its technology for merging web and desktop application development, along with Flex 3, its open source application development framework. With AIR and Flex, the company says that it is staying on top of [...]

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