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Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad expected to hit App Store Monday for $9.99

Adobe’s new Photoshop Touch for iPad 2 was briefly and accidentally made available on the App Store this weekend, but the software is expected to officially launch for $9.99 on Monday.

The software was briefly available for purchase on the App Store before it was pulled, but it is expected to have an official, formal launch on Monday. Adobe Photoshop Touch will not be compatible with Apple’s first-generation iPad, leaving access to only iPad 2 owners.

The full list of featured advertised for Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad is:

Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images.

Use your iPad camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique camera fill feature.

Select part of an image to extract by scribbling with the Scribble Selection tool. With Refine Edge, use your fingertip to capture even hard-to-select image elements, like hair, with ease.

Search and acquire images with the integrated Google Image Search.

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Samsung announces Galaxy Note 10.1, comes with Adobe Photoshop Touch

As expected, today Samsung has announced the 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Note at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. While the announcement was expected, the device is not exactly what we had expected. The device comes loaded with a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, which works in concert with 1GB of RAM. Apart from this, the device has the 10.1-inch display with a WXGA resolution of 1280×800. The device also features a 3-megapixel-rear camera and 2-megapixel front facing camera.

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Strong demand for IT services in 2012: Gartner

Technology analyst firm Gartner’s top researcher in India sees strong demand for IT services from the country in 2012, but warned that less than bullish comments from service providers, brokerages and Nasscom could contribute to the overall sentimental weakness and eventually prove counter-productive for growth.

Gartner’s top analyst in the country, Partha Iyengar, said the gap between what it expects and what the industry is projecting has only widened with Nasscom’s lower growth estimates for software exports in the coming fiscal. As compared to a 16% plus growth software exports are likely to clock in FY12, Nasscom, India’s apex software industry body, has projected only 11%-14% growth in FY13. Iyengar said he was puzzled by the widening gap between the two.

Nearly all the top service providers have warned of weakness in demand. “The global economy, driven by slower growth in developed markets coupled with the European crisis, could impact the growth of the IT industry,” said SD Shibulal, CEO and managing director of the country’s second largest software exporter, Infosys. Similarly, TCS CEO and MD, N Chandrasekaran, said the company was seeing delay in closure of discretionary projects.

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Adobe Releases Photograph-Editing Software for Apple’s IPad

Adobe Systems Inc., taking another step toward making its software more compatible with Apple Inc.’s devices, released a pared-down version of Photoshop editing software for the iPad.

Photoshop Touch, a tablet-computer version of Adobe’s Photoshop, includes features for combining images and applying photo effects to create printed pages and websites. The software, which already runs on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, will sell for $9.99 in Apple’s iTunes App Store. Adobe planned an announcement today to mark the start of the Mobile World Congress, scheduled to run through March 1 in Barcelona.

Adobe, the largest maker of graphic-design software, is delivering more tablet- and Web-based versions of programs as it moves beyond personal-computer software. The San Jose, California-based company is also adapting products for the increasingly popular HTML 5 programming language and cloud- computing software.

The changes are intended to accommodate an industry shift away from Adobe’s older Flash technology and ensure that Adobe programs run on devices from Apple, which had barred Flash from iPhones and iPads.

In addition to the iPad version of Photoshop Touch, Adobe released a test version of Air software that lets Flash developers create applications running on Android and on Apple’s iOS operating system.

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Mobile World Congress 2012: Talk That Talk

Tapas and tablets go hand in hand at the Mobile World Congress, the annual gathering of wireless executives, device makers and software peddlers who descend on this beautiful city to show off the latest and hottest developments in mobile technology.

This year’s event, which runs Sunday through Thursday, will feature the newest handsets from most of the major manufacturers and speeches by many industry leaders, including Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, and executives of AT&T, eBay, Visa, HTC, China Mobile and Nokia, among others. An addition to the lineup this year is Bret Taylor, chief technology officer of Facebook.

We’ll be on the ground, reporting and tweeting live from the fairgrounds throughout the week. And we’ll keep an eye on several big themes, including:

Nokia and Microsoft, One Year Later: It has been a year since the announcement that these giants were teaming up to take on Apple and Android. We’ll get a glimpse of the first fruits of this union and provide an update on the duo’s plans for the months ahead.

Souped-Up Smartphones: As phone makers struggle to differentiate their glossy touchscreen devices from the scores of other glossy touchscreen devices on sale, they’re tricking out the innards in an effort to stand out from the masses. As a result, the arms race for the speediest, sleekest smartphone is under way, with several handset makers showing off devices with high-definition displays, powerful quad-core processors and the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich.

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