When Adobe launched its Creative Cloud offerings to creative professionals in Singapore, it was clear to observers that the software subscription service would be Adobe’s main focus from then on. However, few expected Adobe to scrap its perpetual license offerings entirely and go all-in with Creative Cloud.

But that is exactly what Adobe has announced on Tuesday: the existing Creative Suite 6 will be the last of its kind, and all production software from Adobe will henceforth be issued under the broad Creative Cloud moniker. …

Hot on the heels of the new Creative Cloud subscription service launched in Singapore last month, Adobe today unveiled the Education Store for the local market, giving students and teachers an easier way to purchase its suite of software at steeply discounted prices.

Just how steep is steep? The CS6 Master Collection, for example, is retailing for S$3,802.50‌, but costs only S$290.63 for teachers and students. …

Adobe officially launched its Creative Cloud service together with CS6 last April, and it has finally made its way over the Pacific Ocean to Singapore.

The subscription-based service will allow members to download and locally install every single application in Adobe’s suite of production software, from Premiere Pro to Photoshop Lightroom. Internet connection is not required except for syncing your files (through 20GB of storage) and a once-a-month license validation check. …

Marketing skills capability scored only 1.4 out of a scale of 10, whilst mindset that digital marketing is important scored 6.7. The result? A talent crunch, according to the CMO Council.

Digital marketing in Asia Pacific is facing a serious talent crunch.

This was one of the key insights drawn from the “APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard”, a research report done by the CMO Council, a worldwide professional association of senior marketeers.

The research, which was conducted over Q2 and Q3 of 2012, spanned both qualitative one-on-one interviews and an online survey that 295 Asia Pacific respondents completed. 23 brand leaders in Asia Pacific from companies like Toyota, CitiGroup and Nokia participated in the interviews.

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If you want to view Flash-based websites on your Android phone, you’ve got hours left to grab the plugin off the Google Play Store.

Some time today, on Wednesday, Adobe will be pulling it off the download store as part of a long goodbye to a multimedia format once popular with hundreds of thousands of websites.

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Those in the late Steve Jobs camp might adamantly discredit the importance of Flash in tomorrow’s Web, but who said the two can’t co-exist?

Definitely not Adobe, for Flash is still one of the creative software company’s most important products. Still, Adobe is not ignoring the iPad phenomenon and it would be silly to brush aside the legion of developers jumping onto the HTML5 bandwagon.

Unveiled yesterday in Singapore, Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 comes jam packed with new features, among them a brand new application called Adobe Muse which enables designers to create and publish HTML5 websites without writing a single line of code.

The good ol’ Flash Professional CS6 now also allows users to easily translate and transition their skills to HTML5. …

With the number of mobile phones and tablets being launched, it is essential to keep up or get left behind.

This is the driving idea behind multimedia software giant Adobe shortening their product update releases for Creative Suites, their flagship bundle of graphic design and web editing tools. Previously, Adobe was on a 18 month cycle between major releases, but now, new “mid-cycle” releases are planned every 12 months, with major releases every 24 months.

At the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 media launch event today in Singapore, Adobe’s regional director for SE Asia Vicky Skipp said that the change in the launch cycle was informed by their customers.

“If we had to wait 18 months for a new release, we might be out of the game in certain markets,” she said.

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