SmartNews – IT news and product updates for business

Adobe® Acrobat® now with an additional CLP discount of up to 45%.
Receive additional discounts of up to 45% when purchasing the leading PDF document creation and collaboration solution for your organisation. Acrobat CLP Packs are available in six quantities, starting at 250 seats and ranging up to 2,000 seats, for full-seat purchases of Acrobat X Standard [...]

QuarkXPress 9 is built to help designers create content that can be published to digital devices — e-readers, smartphones, and tablets — with one tool, and without coding. Whether a designer needs to publish directly from QuarkXPress to the iPad, create content for an e-book, or reach an expansive audience through the Blio eReader, QuarkXPress [...]

This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes the latest security updates.
The update is available for:

Mac OS X v10.5.8,
Mac OS X Server v10.5.8,
Mac OS X v10.6.5 or later,
Mac OS X Server v10.6.5 or later,
Windows 7,
Vista,
XP SP2 or later

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Apple  introduced Final Cut Pro X, a new version of their professional video editing software at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas. This latest version of Final Cut was completely rewritten from the ground up, with a new user interface and a slew of new features that take advantage of core Mac OS X features like [...]

Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1.
This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

Security is improved: this update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2011 that an attacker can use to [...]