Nvidia has announced a range of Quadro professional graphics solutions, which are certified by Adobe for Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) software. As a result Adobe Premiere Pro can leverage the parallel processing architecture of Nvidia GPUs and their hundreds of cores to allow film and video professionals to work unconstrained. Users can now create compelling, multi-layer projects with a virtually limitless number of HD or higher resolution video clips, then apply sophisticated visual effects and color correction, while still being able to view the output instantly.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, which includes Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe After Effects and more, and Adobe Premiere Pro with the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine that taps into the parallel processing capabilities of Nvidia GPUs, is fully supported by a range of Nvidia Quadro professional graphics solutions. Products certified by Adobe for professional use include the Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 4800 for Mac, Quadro FX 3800 and Quadro CX.

iPad and Steve Jobs apparently can’t keep out of the news.With the release of the iPad, and the updated license agreement for iPhone development, new debates are brewing up. Just take a look at section 3.3.1 of the new iPhone Developer License Agreement:

3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and  objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

Doesn’t this sound rather restrictive?Jobs does come out creative-restrictive solutions for the competition.With the launch of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone compiler, this is a rather odd move and it certainly puts a damper on Adobe’s Flash Professional CS5 release.

Certainly, Apple has the right to control the quality and secure nature of its products, and nobody wants to see poorly written or compiled programs allowing viruses and bugs to run rampant on their handheld devices. But just how far is too far?

Adobe’s new partnership with Google will keep Internet users safer because Chrome will automatically update Flash Player without first asking users.

Google will include Adobe’s Flash Player in downloads of Chrome, starting with the rough-around-the-edges builds of the browser’s “dev” channel. Google will also employ Chrome’s auto-updater to push Flash fixes to users without notifying them or asking them to approve the download.The integration, particularly the automatic updating of Adobe’s plug-in, is a first for a browser maker.

Unlike other browsers, Chrome updates itself automatically in the background without asking for permission or prompting users when security fixes or new features are available. The practice, which Google debuted alongside Chrome in September 2008, riled some users initially, but the criticism soon faded.

Other browsers, however, did not follow suit.

Adobe will build customized binaries of Flash Player for Google to include with Chrome downloads; the browser will install the plug-ins as part of its own installation process. Adobe will also hand binaries of Flash updates — major upgrades as well as the more frequent security updates to patch vulnerabilities — to Google, which will feed them into its update mechanism.

Keeping plug-ins, especially Flash, up to date is not only a problem for many users, but also important in warding off attackers. Adobe issued Flash patch updates five times in 2009 and has done so twice so far this year.

In fact, when Mozilla introduced a tool last year that checks for outdated Firefox plug-ins, it started with Flash Player, citing statistics that said eight out of 10 users were running a vulnerable version.

Obopay, a mobile banking and payment provider, was recently chosen by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the top 50 innovative companies in the world across sectors such as energy, computing, the Web, biomedicine, and materials. Obopay was conferred this honor under ‘Private Web Company’ category for bringing innovation in mobile payment services through its pioneering mobile payment service which is ubiquitous and highly secure.

With technology developed at its Bangalore based R&D centre, Obopay products are platform agnostic and global in nature. Other companies in ‘the Web’ category included names like Google, Twitter, IBM, Adobe amongst others.

The companies on MIT’s Technology Review list have been assessed on basis of their business model, deployment strategies, scalability of technologies as well as success rate. The editors of Technology Review analyzed companies over the last year that has demonstrated their superiority at inventing technology and using it for business growth as well as for transforming the lives of people. The companies identified were the ones with most promising technologies, whether they were giant corporations or fledgling startups with initial venture capital investments.