SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe Systems Inc. has released Macromedia Flash Lite 2 and Macromedia Flash Player SDK 7, software tools that enable developers to incorporate embedded software based on Flash animation into mobile phones and other handheld devices.

According to Adobe, which finalized the acquisition of Macromedia last month, Flash Player SDK

Adobe on Monday will announce the public beta release of Lightroom, the company’s answer to Apple’s recently release Aperture. Adobe will release Lightroom as a public beta for the Macinstosh to get feedback from professional photographers before releasing the full version later this year, the company said.
 
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The first draft of GNU General Public License Version 3 will be unveiled next week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., but that milestone is likely to be more of a beginning than an ending.
 
The release of the draft will kick off months of debate over

SAN JOSE, Calif. - TiVo Inc., the digital video recorder pioneer, made headlines a year ago in vowing to take TV to the next level with support for high-definition video, software that can sling shows outside the box and a plan to pipe movies over the Internet.
 
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SanDisk Corp. unveiled a fingernail-sized microSD card with 1GB of memory Friday at CES.

SanDisk, which said the device is the smallest flash memory card in the world, added that the card can store up to 32 hours of WMA-compressed music, equal to about 480 songs. The card will initially be offered

LAS VEGAS — Long known as a chip supplier for the PC world, Intel Corp. is trying to make its mark in the world of entertainment.

Although the keynote speech by Intel CEO Paul Otellini at the Consumer Electronics Show here Thursday (Jan. 5) touted several hardware developments, it also emphasized the company’s

For the Mac faithful this time of year is a special one: The always lively annual Macworld conference that Apple Computer Inc. and co-founder Steve Jobs host in San Francisco.
 
Web sites concerning all things Apple abound with rumors and speculation that swirl weeks before the event and Jobs' keynote,

LAS VEGAS-- With some help from Hollywood stars Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Cruise, Yahoo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel launched a new service Friday that connects users to all of their Yahoo Internet-based services through multiple devices.
 
The service, comprised of the Yahoo Go Desktop, Yahoo Go Mobile, and

The Sober virus was not the only worm to make its run on Friday. FaceTime Communications reported the discovery of a new worm transmitted via instant messaging.

The new worm targets PCs that have been infected with the lockx.exe or palsp.exe viruses and uses Internet Relay Chat-enabled malware to connect the host

D-Link rolled out a new network security product and Buffalo Technology unveiled additions to its home wireless networking line and upgrades to its storage product line at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Designed to protect home and small business networks, D-Link's SecureSpot Internet Security Device installs between the