Adobe

Exactly six months ago, we blogged about Adobe Photoshop CS4 Download leak on torrent portals, now the wait seems to be over as Adobe will be officially announcing "Adobe Creative Suite 4" on 23 September 2008, CS4 will be available in both 32 and 64-bit versions on Windows allowing access to more memory, but OS X users will have need to wait for 64 bit version.

Adobe will be webcasting the event at adobe.istreamplanet.com, you can register now to receive a reminder message on the announcement day.

Adobe today announced a major update to their Acrobat product to the next version Adobe Acrobat 9.0, currently in beta the final version of the product is scheduled to be released next month, with exciting new features like embedding of third-party applications like flash, video, slides and even maps. One the most exciting new feature is support for embedded forms allowing PDF creators to track and collect data from the users.

The Acrobat 9 range consists of Acrobat 9 Standard, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended flavours of the software, The most feature-rich of all Acrobat 9 Pro Extended also includes Adobe Presenter software for easy conversion of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into multimedia objects which can be embedded and can be published as PDF files, the expensive version (expected to be $699) will also support mapping features with geospatial coordinates and enable users to mark locations and measure distances.

Adobe also launched their new collaboration portal Acrobat.com, a set of tightly integrated online tools to create, publish and share PDF files, with 1 GB free online storage space and advanced functionalities like online forms with full data analysis and database like control, the portal already seem to be a hit.

Adobe released their brand new web-based version of popular Photoshop image editor, dubbed Photoshop Express the service is currently labeled as public beta, Users are provided with 2 GB free online storage allowing them to store, edit and share images using a simple and easy to use flash based interface.

Photoshop Express users can also upload and download images from popular social networking sites like Facebook, The application provides all the necessary tools for day to day image editing task.

Adobe CS3 users are reporting company's software products silently sending data to a third-party service.

Dan Moren of UneasySilence first posted about the issue on his blog, by using a Mac OS software - Little Snitch, he was able to track Adobe's data snooping.

Adobe software's are being reported to send data to the server at 192.168.112.2O7.net which seem to be a internal network IP, but if you play close attention it is not (notice the .net after the IP), if you try to access the server at 192.168.112.2O7.net a 404 not found page is displayed and the company owning it is Omniture - a web analytic company.