Adobe has released a public beta of a program called Muse, which helps users design websites without mucking about in piles of code. 9to5Mac reports that it will cost $15 a month and should be officially released early in 2012. The official Adobe site calls Muse a “code name,” but it’s available for download right now and looks pretty beautiful.

Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) is launching new software called Adobe Edge. Edge will allow designers to create web content using web standards such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Flash is not built in to this software. This software is expected to co-exist with Adobe Flash and not to replace it.

Since Apple released OS X Lion to the general public yesterday, it’s already gotten more than 7,000 five-star ratings in the App Store. In contrast to this positive response, Adobe has released a list of issues with Adobe products on machines running Lion. One such issue is that Apple may have disabled Flash hardware acceleration. In some cases Adobe offers suggestions of how to change Lion settings to better work with Adobe devotees’ expectations of product performance, but in other cases Adobe simply recommends that users do not update to OS X Lion. Many of the issues are small but obnoxiously annoying for anyone who uses the affected feature frequently, such as droplets not working in Photoshop CS3-CS5.

EchoSign, a company that provides signature automation and electronic signatures, has been acquired by Adobe. EchoSign already has more than 3 million users. The tech will be integrated into Adobe’s online document exchange platform, which includes SendNow, FormsCentral and CreatePDF. The monetary terms of the acquisition have not been released, but EchoSign’s team, including the founders and all full-time employees, will be working with Adobe. [Business Wire]

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that Adobe Flash 10.2 will be available on Android devices running on Froyo, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb. Adobe 10.2 has increased performance from the previous version. The beta release of Adobe 10.2 does not utilize full hardware acceleration as that feature has been turned off. Hardware rending and compositing will be added in a later release. That release “will bring 720p playback to a really smooth, enjoyable level.” [Engadget]

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has attempted to get Adobe Flash to run on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod, but Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) did not relent. Now Adobe has created software called Wallaby that takes basic Flash files such as banner ads and converts it into HTML5, a language that works on Apple’s products.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that they have launched the Flash Player 10.2 application for download on the Android Market on March 18th. The GA (General Availability) production of the Flash Player 10.2 application will initially be released as a beta for Android Honeycomb 3.0 tablets.

In 1987, Thomas Knoll began writing graphic subroutines on a Mac Plus. He teamed with his brother John to combine the subroutines into an application called “Display.” Display was refined into software called ImagePro. About a year later, the two brothers displayed their software at the MacWorld tradeshow. The two brothers approached Nikon and offered them the rights to the image editing program. Nikon U.S. and Europe liked the idea, but Nikon Japan decided against the idea because they believed there wouldn’t be much demand. Kodak and a few other big photography companies also turned down the software made by the Knoll brothers. In 1989, Adobe struck a deal with the two brothers to license their image editing program. It would be called “Photoshop.” Today Adobe Photoshop is one of the company’s best selling software. [PetaPixel]