Adobe takes Photoshop online

Adobe Systems will release a hosted version of its Photoshop image-editing application within six months, CNET News reports.

This forms part of a larger move to introduce ad-supported online services to complement its existing products and broaden the company's reach into the consumer market, says Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen.

The hosted version of Photoshop is part of a bigger company strategy to introduce Internet-delivered services that complement its shrink-wrapped applications and head off likely competition from Google.

Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices promised to build a "processing powerhouse" when it bought Canada's largest computer chip player last year, reports Globe and Mail.

This week, it unveiled the first product from its acquisition of graphics chip designer ATI Technologies, saying it represents the initial step toward fulfilling the goal of the $5.4 billion deal.

The product is an AMD chipset that includes a graphics chip from the company's new ATI division. Intel already sells chipsets that integrate its own graphics. Although they are not the most powerful graphics in the industry, they have the advantage of being part of a complete and stable platform of Intel technology.

Within a decade, the Internet will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, reports BBC News.

The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies. It also predicted that by 2012, batteries in mobile phones would last two months between recharges.

The experts taking part in the survey said by 2018, robots would routinely carry out surgery. The long-range predictions in the survey were as a result of interviews with about 3 500 technology experts in South Korea.

MySpace is set to introduce the biggest innovation to its site since it was first unveiled, reports The Register.

Orb Networks, which allows users to listen to or view media stored on home PCs or mobiles via its MyCasting service, has added MySpace integration to the list of features.

Using the Orb client, MySpace users can upload songs to their MySpace page - and stream them. A drag-and-drop client makes the operation simple.