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Major Apps Vendors Partner to Make Flash Searchable Adobe enlists Google, Yahoo in effort to make Flash animations and applications searchable by more than just file name. Microsoft Buys Maker of Mobile-Data Backup Apps MobiComp will give Microsoft open-source, cloud-based backup, storage and restoration of mobile data. OpenXML Debate Intensifies as Critical Vote Looms Partisans raise barricades for pitched battles over whether Microsoft's OpenXML has changed enough for ratification. Eisner Headlines Aquent Conference Ex-Disney CEO probably won't be delving into creative, off-label applications of deep Acrobat features, but will no doubt provide an entertaining kickoff to the festivities. eCopy release scans paper directly into business apps Connecting with a range of third-party multifunction printers, eCopy's scanning software can route documents as PDFs or other formats directly into content management or other applications. Google Adds PDF Presentations to Google Docs Google has added a Save as PDF feature to the presentation tool in its web-based office automation and collaboration suite. ISO Approves PDF as International Standard After 15 years of making PDF a privately owned but public standard on which almost anyone could develop, Adobe now makes it an open standard by fast-tracking PDF 1.7 through ISO, approved last week after Adobe addressed comments and the lone committee dissenter changed his vote to yes. Reigning in File Transfers E-mail systems are not designed to manage large file transfers, but other means could expose your enterprise to security risks. Taher Elgamal, chief technology officer of Tumbleweed, explains the situation and offers some answers in this IT Link po Panel Suggests Ways to Index Government Documents Government databases are a treasure trove of random data, but locating much of their content via search engines like Google is often a fruitless endeavor because of a failure to link this data to commonly used search engines, experts told a Senate panel T Microsoft Office Live Workspace Goes to Public Beta However, users who do not have Office installed will not be able to edit documents. Iron Mountain Acquires Digital Conversion Company Second acquisition in a month 'locks down' company's film and sound archive services portfolio. Bluebeam's Vertical Leap Analysis: Third-party PDF software developer vaults out of the engineering world and into the office world. Merger Puts Adobe on Its Toes News Analysis: Esko and Artwork is a big story for its customers, but the whole printing industry benefits from Enfocus' bigger test bed and should be good news for PDF users as Adobe feels some competitive heat. PDF2Office: Sweet Relief for the Office Dweller Review: Recosoft's Vista upgrade takes some of the most useful Acrobat tools for the Microsoft Office user and bundles them for less than $100. Adobe Makes Enterprise Push with Forms Software Two new additions to Adobe's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite find the company trying to get beyond its Photoshop and Flash rep. Adobe Aims for iTunes-like Accessibility with E-Book App Digital Editions 1.0 merges Flash and PDF to bring free and rights-managed content to the desktop in an iTunes-like environment. PDF Too Slow for Google? Reporter's Notebook: A top Google engineer gives a rare sneak peek into how the search site perceives and uses PDF documents. How to Smuggle Porn with PDF Opinion: When my client's porn spam detector erroneously blocked my invoices, I turned to Acrobat to save the day. Enfocus Neo for Prepress Comes at a Price The robust, stand-alone PDF editor offers many fine controls that the PitStop Pro Acrobat plug-in don't, but it comes with a hefty price tag. Callas Updates Its PDF Correction Tool Callas Software has updated its pdfCorrect software, a tool that enables businesses to correct PDF files before they are sent out to printers. |
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