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Adobe today announced that it has licensed Sonic’s DVD authoring technology, which it will use as the basis for a new DVD authoring title. “With products like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop, Adobe is already a leader in the digital video and digital imaging markets,” said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Adobe Systems’ Graphics Business Unit in a statement.

The American Institute of Architects’ Louis B. Smith, writing for the >Architectural Record, has published an in-depth, six-page article on the continuing presence of Macs in architectural firms around the U.S.

ScanSoft is currently developing OmniPage Pro X, a Mac OS X version of its optical character recognition (OCR) software and the first Mac product from the company in nearly three years. MacCentral offers a rather lengthy look at the product, which allows users to scan a document and convert it to editable text, and its history in today’s edition.

Intego has released DiskGuard 2.1, a new version of its software for securing hard disks, and FileGuard 4.1, a more robust version of DiskGuard that adds file- and folder-specific access privileges. Both updates add Mac OS 9.2.2 compatibility, CD volume protection, compatibility between Mac OS X and specific disk drivers on protected disks and several important bug fixes.

In a surprise announcement today, RealNetworks said it will support MPEG-4, the emerging open standard for digital video, in upcoming versions of its RealSystem iQ and RealOne media player products, according to c|net. The MPEG-4 file format is based on Apple’s QuickTime file format, as Apple has been a key supporter of the technology since its early development, and is widely considered to be the standard for solutions such as wireless streaming video and Internet distribution of full-length movies.