A Tablet With Office

Walt answers a reader’s question on finding a tablet that can run Outlook and all the Microsoft Office programs.

Adobe Recasts the iPad as High-Tech Palette for Photoshop (Video)

Adobe is planning a trio of iPad apps that allow Apple’s tablet to act as an additional input device when used in conjunction with a Mac or PC running Photoshop. The new apps come as Adobe is prepping an interim update of its flagship Creative Suite 5 line of software.

Adobe Releases Major Upgrade of Creative Suite: It Can Bend Elephants, but Will It Make the "SoftWar" With Apple Worse?

Although caught in an ever-noisier squabble with Apple over the banishment of its popular Flash technology from the iPhone, iPod and iPad and over other issues, Adobe Systems is pressing forward with the release of one of its most important products in many years–an upgrade of its popular and highly profitable Creative Suite software. And while CS5 is the most significant update in several years and can do all kinds of cool things–like bend an elephant, as you will see in the video–it is also at the heart of Adobe’s issues with Apple.

Google to Yahoo: Excuse Us While We Buy Your Photo Editor

It’s a Monday, which must mean that Google has a new purchase to announce, its ninth since August. Today’s buy is Picnik, which runs a Web-based photo0editing service best known for its integration with Yahoo’s Flickr.

A New Picasa Puts a Name To All Those Faces

An updated Picasa tries to take some of the work out of identifying people in shared photos by using “facial recognition.”