soft Xpansion, the vendor for PDF software, published multi-language versions of its freeware PDF software products – Perfect PDF Master and Perfect PDF Reader in nine languages, and Perfect DocuReader in two languages.

PDFTron Systems Inc., the vendor for PDF, XPS, SVG and other graphic technologies, launched its PDF2XPS solution for high-quality, fast and reliable conversion of PDF to XPS or OpenXPS documents.

AnyBizSoft Studio, the vendor for PDF related software, has announced free AnyBizSoft Studio PDF to Word Converter 2.5.3 for free until 1st March 2010 to all visitors of its website.

Adobe has released emergency security updates for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat to address the critical vulnerability which has been identified in Reader 9.3 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, Acrobat 9.3 for Windows and Macintosh, and Reader 8.2 and Acrobat 8.2 for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe has recommended its users to update their current version of software to 9.3.1 and for the users who cannot update to 9.3.1

Bluebeam Software announced the latest release of their editor for the architecture, engineering and construction industry (AEC), Bluebeam PDF Revu 8.

According to LibraryJournal.com eBook provider ebrary is soon to release a portion of its platform to subscribers of its Academic Complete product.

Security firm Qualys report that Adobe Reader’s software should be a top priority for IT security managers.

KnowledgeLake, Inc., a provider of document imaging and capture technologies, today announced a new version of KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint.

Artifex Software Inc. today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Palm, Inc., based on Palm’s unauthorized copying and distribution of one of Artifex’s registered technologies.

TMCnet.COM report that SLG Mobile have announced the beta release of the BeamReader PDF viewer for the Android platform.

Amazon released the new version of the Kindle which has 85% more battery life than the previous version. The new release also comes with a PDF reader.
With the latest release of Kindle, users can now read their personal or professional documents as PDF natively.

Axway, today announced Data Leak Prevention (DLP) enhancements to the MailGate e-mail security appliance’s Policy Engine, enabling Digital Rights Management (DRM) for attachments. These enhancement now secures the Microsoft Documents from being altered at the recipients end by a 32-byte long password

Foxit Corporation, a provider of e-document technology for mobile, desktop and on demand platforms, announced the release of Firmware 2.0 for its eReader device, eSlick. eSlick customers will now have the ability to view documents in ePub and eReader (PDB) in addition to earlier supported PDF and Text formats. By the end of November, all eSlick devices will come with the Firmware 2.0 pre-installed.

Nitro PDF Software, builders of Nitro PDF — the alternative to Adobe Acrobat, have announced PDF support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Also Nitro has included desktop PDF to Excel functionality in version 6.01

The latest release version 6.0.1 of Nitro PDF Professional and the impending release of Nitro PDF Express v2 are both compatible of Microsoft Windows® 7 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2.