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By Flex News Desk  Adobe today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Jan. 29, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 12,935 | By Flex News Desk Making accessing a personal meeting room easy and instant, Adobe Acrobat Connect, which Adobe describes as 'the first hosted web conferencing service to offer 'always-on' personal meeting rooms,' became commercially available today. Jan. 15, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,461 | By Flex News Desk  It's not often that I wish I was in America,'' writes one (UK-based) developer, 'but this week sees the MAX 2006 show in Las Vegas.' He was not alone in wishing he'd been able to make it: around the Web world, bloggers both outside the US and inside have been discussing the many announ... Dec. 26, 2006 03:30 PM EST Reads: 15,001 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'As people increasingly communicate and collaborate across the Internet, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Connect enable an effective workflow around documents,' said Kevin Lynch, Adobe's visionary SVP and chief software architect, as it was announced this morning that Adobe Reader 8 sof... Dec. 6, 2006 10:45 AM EST Reads: 12,521 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'With Adobe Document Center, we're putting the control and protection of sensitive information within the reach of individuals in businesses of all sizes,' said Tom Hale, SVP of Adobe's Knowledge Worker Business Unit, as Adobe yesterday introduced Adobe Document Center - a new hosted s... Nov. 17, 2006 02:30 AM EST Reads: 12,783 | By Flex News Desk 'It's not often that I wish I was in America,' writes one (UK-based) developer, 'but this week sees the MAX 2006 show in Las Vegas.' He is not alone: around the Web world, bloggers both outside the US and inside have been discussing the many announcements made at this year's MAX and th... Nov. 6, 2006 04:15 AM EST Reads: 12,334 | By Flex News Desk Adobe today announced that Adobe Flash Video technology has won a Technical and Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, in recognition of the technology's pivotal role in bringing television content to the Internet. TV like Lost, Desperate Hous... Nov. 2, 2006 03:30 PM EST Reads: 14,258 | By Flex News Desk Dreamweaver Tools for Google, a free extension to Adobe Dreamweaver, is being released today by WebAssist, bringing advanced Google functionality to small business owners and Web professionals alike. Nov. 1, 2006 08:00 AM EST Reads: 18,000 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'The innovation we are most excited about,' said Bruce Chizen, Adobe's CEO, 'is Apollo, which we believe will revolutionize the way the world will interact with the Web in the future.' He was speaking at MAX 2006, the biggest ever Adobe developer conference, in Las Vegas. Oct. 25, 2006 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 19,316 Replies: 5 | By Flex News Desk At its first MAX developer and customer event since joining forces with Macromedia, Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) today will demonstrate technologies and future product workflows that make it possible to create and deliver new kinds of high-impact, rich applications and eng... Oct. 24, 2006 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 12,084 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'MAX 2006 is both a milestone in the integration of Adobe and Macromedia, and a reflection of what's possible when all these creative forces come together,' said Kevin Lynch, Adobe SVP & Chief Software Architect today here in Las Vegas, where Adobe is staging its first MAX developer an... Oct. 24, 2006 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,336 Replies: 3 | By Flex News Desk 'By creating a specialized, consumer-friendly application like Digital Editions, Adobe is ensuring publishers can securely deliver high-impact content to the widest possible audience, across hardware platforms, operating systems and devices,' said Shantanu Narayen, president and COO at... Oct. 24, 2006 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,016 Replies: 3 | By Flex News Desk 'With the acquisition of Actimagine's vector graphics technology, we will be able to further enhance the most popular, high-volume mobile and consumer devices as well as broaden our reach into emerging markets,' said Al Ramadan, SVP of Adobe's Mobile and Device Solutions Business Unit,... Oct. 11, 2006 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,481 Replies: 4 | By Flex News Desk We are about to enter a new era, when plain looking Web applications will gradually be replaced with RIA delivered over the Web that can actually land on the PC and work in a disconnected mode as well. How this will affect the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) applications? Oct. 5, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 20,772 | By Search News Desk; Flex News Desk Specializing in 'Total Solutions Hosting' Apollo Hosting provides everything their customers need to build, sell and market their websites. Their web servers were processing over half a million unsolicited spam emails on a daily basis. Apollo's Vice President of Operations, Don McLeman... Oct. 4, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,232 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk  I gotta say, I had a lot of fun at the Real-World Flex Seminar SYS-CON put together. Things went, for me, really smoothly. Registration, getting Internet at the booth, and hooking up with my team. Free coffee was readily available, so I was set. Sep. 27, 2006 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,914 Replies: 2 | By Flex News Desk While currently used by four million people, Dreamweaver has no e-commerce functionality. Which is why WebAssist today is launching a new e-commerce solution that will add value to Dreamweaver for small businesses and web professionals. Sep. 27, 2006 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 12,437 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'We decided it was the right time to deliver Dreamweaver with Creative Suite 2.3, so customers can make the transition to the industry's leading Web design and development tool,' said Mark Hilton, Adobe's vice president of product management, as Adobe announced today that Acrobat 8 Pro... Sep. 19, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 11,211 Replies: 2 | By Flex News Desk 'Since nearly everyone already has the Flash Player installed, Acrobat Connect makes it extremely easy to go from looking at your computer screen to sharing it with others, regardless of their platform or version of software,' said Tom Hale, Adobe's senior vice president, Knowledge Wor... Sep. 19, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,497 Replies: 2 | By Flex News Desk Adobe boost its fiscal third-quarter sales by a massive 24%, it reported yesterday; it also reported a 35% drop in its Q3 profit due to having booked charges related to its acquisition of Macromedia Inc. Sep. 15, 2006 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,133 | By Flex News Desk Christophe Coenraets chairs and Mike Nimer, James Ward, Luis Polanco, Andrew Oliver, Mansour Raad, Boris Kabisher and Manish Jiandani will all be giving sessions when the one-day Flex Track kicks off next month at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 in the Santa Clara Convention Center, S... Sep. 13, 2006 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 20,182 Replies: 2 | By Flex News Desk Mansour Raad, from 'the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to mapping,' ESRI, is the senior software architect behind ArcWeb Services, the next-generation mapping unit of ESRI that creates and serves up 6 million maps a day on the fly in real time (www.arcwebservices.com): a real-world pr... Sep. 13, 2006 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,651 | By Flex News Desk  There are cool software tools and there are practical tools. People who make their living by development of the enterprise Web applications, are very careful in selecting the language or technology for their needs. There is a huge difference in requirements for developing an applicatio... Aug. 21, 2006 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 37,420 Replies: 4 | By Flex News Desk 'If we can imagine it, we can now build it.' That, in a single sentence, is what - according to Dave Wolf, VP of Consulting at Cynergy Systems - characterizes the disruptive moment of opportunity that Flex has arrived right in the middle of. In his session, intriguingly titled 'Front t... Aug. 17, 2006 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,270 | By Flex News Desk The irrepressible Mansour Raad opened the eyes of the 'Real-World Flex' audience wide on Monday, as he demonstrated the extraordinary power of Adobe's Flex by demo'ing a mouth-watering sequence of 'mapping mashups' drawing on the full power of ESRI's astonishing GIS data combined with ... Aug. 16, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 27,881 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk Adobe's next-generation client, codenamed 'Apollo,' will extend the reach and capabilities of today's rich Internet applications (RIAs), freeing them to run outside the browser, on desktops. Luis Polanco, product manager for Apollo told the audience at 'Real-World Flex' in New York Cit... Aug. 15, 2006 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 19,798 | By Flex News Desk Registration opened yesterday - at the 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar being held by SYS-CON Events - for the New York Flex User Group. The group will serve as a central meeting place to exchange ideas, solutions and network with other Flex developers. Aug. 15, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,704 | By Flex News Desk Fumi Matsumoto, CTO of Flex ISV Allurent, outlined today at 'Real-World Flex' in New York City the technical and design challenges related to the development of a new platform for building RIA consumer shopping experiences, built on Flex and Flash technology. Aug. 14, 2006 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,798 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits.' That, according to 'Real-World Flex' speaker Jesse Randall Warden, was what greeted him when he arrived in New York City's Roosevelt Hotel this morning ready to give his own session at the event, a session called 'Flash and Flex -... Aug. 14, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 15,077 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk With its free features, such as the Flex SDK, Flex 2 uses Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player as its runtime, which is why Adobe can confidently predict millions of users and 1,000,000 developers. That, according to Flex Product Manager Eric Anderson, is the key to understanding the potent... Aug. 14, 2006 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 13,629 | By Flex News Desk Working, as he does uniquely well at conference after conference, with live demos and no offline safety-net, Adobe's senior technology evangelist Christophe Coenraets delivered his session 'How Flex Can Transform the User Experience on the Web' to an audience of completely enraptured d... Aug. 14, 2006 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,782 | By Flex News Desk 'The browser is not really a good model for applications,' said David Mendels this morning at SYS-CON Events' inaugural 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar. Rich Internet Applications are the future of the Web, and cross-platform, powerful Flex 2 is right in the eye of the storm. 'Flex m... Aug. 14, 2006 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 15,243 | By Flex News Desk On August 4, after 4 years, Justin Everett-Church finished his final day at Yahoo! before joining Adobe in an exciting new position as Senior Product Manager for Flash Designer/Developer relations. For the former Rich Media Evangelist (as he was known at Yahoo!), it is the beginning of... Aug. 12, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,477 Replies: 3 | By Flex News Desk On Monday, August 14, IT Professionals from all over the world are set to converge in NYC at the first Real-World Flex Seminar. Focused on Flex, the revolutionary new application development platform from Adobe Systems, Real-World Flex promises to deliver an outstanding educational lin... Aug. 11, 2006 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,553 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk In his presentation at the SYS-CON Events 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar on Monday, August 14th, in The Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Jesse Warden - a Senior Consultant with Universal Mind, who specializes in Flex, Flash, & Flash Lite development - will cover ho... Aug. 11, 2006 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,698 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk We need more developers on the Flash Platform and Flex 2 is just the framework and toolset to entice these people.' Aral Balkan, founder and director of UK-based Ariaware. Aug. 10, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 16,177 Replies: 9 | By Flex News Desk Dave Wolf, VP of Consulting at Cynergy Systems, is giving one of the more intriguingly titled presentations at SYS-CON's upcoming 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar next Monday, August 14. It is called 'Front to Back Development - Designing and Building Better Flex Apps.' Aug. 9, 2006 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,491 Replies: 1 | By Flex News Desk 'Apollo,' the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop, will be the focus o... Aug. 4, 2006 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 9,698 Replies: 2 | By Flex News Desk WebAssist - whose partners include Adobe, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, and Affinity - today released the latest version, v3.0, of its best-selling SiteAssist program. SiteAssist 3.0 includes new professional-level designs that the company added, according to its President Eric Ott, in direc... Aug. 4, 2006 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 14,050 | By Flex News Desk Adobe's new 'Apollo' product and strategy will be the focus of a session to be presented by Luis Polanco at the Real-World Flex Seminar, to be produced by SYS-CON Events at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 14. The Apollo session is just one of a diverse, comprehensive Flex pro... Aug. 2, 2006 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,566 Replies: 1 |
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Flex News Desk provides the very latest news on the cross-platform Flex development framework for creating rich Internet applications, and on Adobe's AIR/Flex/Flash product combination.
