Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The influence of its US$3.4 billion Macromedia acquisition nine months ago shining through, graphics software company Adobe has given its ubiquitous Acrobat reader a makeover to include video web conferencing.
In addition, Acrobat 8, to be announced today,
is said to be significantly faster loading, one of the main complaints
with previous versions.
Acrobat is widely used by corporations to transform paper-based
documents and documents that would normally be stored on paper into a
non-editable digital format called PDF (portable document format) that
is a true representation of the original.
Acrobat is used widely by businesses to produce web-based corporate
information collateral, such as whitepapers, manuals, company
announcements and marketing materials.
The Acrobat reader can be freely downloaded but Adobe charges for the document creation software.
Since PDF has become a defacto standard for document storage,
wordprocessor developers, such as Microsoft and the Open Source
software community have moved to include features that will enable
users to save their documents in PDF format.
The Open Source product Open Office.org 2.0 already has a save as PDF
function for documents created with its word processor. Microsoft is
also moving to have a save to PDF feature included in its upcoming
Office 2007 product, despite opposition from Adobe.
Adobe believes its will retain its corporate customers, despite the
entry of Microsoft into the PDF creation market, because of the
superior functionality of its document creation software. Lending
weight to that argument is the fact that the free PDF creation feature
of Open Office.org has failed to make a dent in Adobe's market.
However, Microsoft is a different proposition.
David Bass
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