Flex News Desk

TechCrunch is reporting that 9% of Adobe's workforce is to be axed, according to an 8-K filed by Adobe with the SEC today. "Adobe is restructuring its business to align costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and budget, the company’s three-year strategic priorities and the rea... (more)

Akamai Technologies has announced the Akamai HD Network, its next-generation video delivery offering and a platform to deliver HD video online to viewers using Adobe Flash technology, Microsoft Silverlight, and to the iPhone, at broadcast-level audience scale. The Akamai HD Netwo... (more)

Brightcove has announced that it has rolled out broad support for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media Server 3.5 through content delivery services provided by Limelight Networks, providing more than 700 customers in 28 countries with turn-key access to enhanced dynamic delivery capabilities ... (more)

Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Platform Services for Distribution, a new service that enables advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize applications across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. Adobe Flash Platform Service... (more)

Jaspersoft has announced the immediate availability of JasperReports Professional, now with Flash-based geo-visualization and advanced charting capabilities. Jaspersoft is also introducing a new low-cost JasperReports Professional Developer Edition, which will make it even easier... (more)

Broadcom  and Adobe Systems announced an engineering collaboration to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe Flash technology based video content on platforms powered by Intel Atom processors. This collaboration paves the way for rich, seamless enterta... (more)

NVIDIA, and Adobe Systems announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and enable Adobe Flash Player, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, to leverage GPU video and graphics acceleration on a wide range of mobile Internet devices, i... (more)

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Aj... (more)

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced further advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform with the beta availability of Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly named Adobe Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework. Adobe Flash Builder is a profess... (more)

Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform. Despit... (more)

Today, the New York Times Company and Adobe launched a new version of the Times Reader—the electronic version of the newspaper with online/offline capabilities, powered by Adobe AIR. The enhanced version of Times Reader 2.0 resembles the printed paper even more closely, and conte... (more)

O'Reilly has published an excerpt from the upcoming book on enterprise development with Flex.This advanced book covers variety of practical topics  such as comparing Flex frameworks, unleashing the power of BlazeDS, designing your own library of reusable components, Flex portal, ... (more)

Anark Corporation has announced that it has been accepted as an Adobe Systems Incorporated Solution Partner. Adobe's Solution Partner Program is designed for companies that provide solution-based sales, system integration, services, or extended products based on Adobe technology.... (more)

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Facebook® today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript® 3 Client ... (more)

This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report  in the RIA space. · With Adobe Fl... (more)

ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated bu... (more)

Yakov Fain, one of the top 3 Ulitzer bloggers, launched a new magazine on Ulitzer as a one stop shop for all Flex/AIR/Java developers who decided to use open source Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise rich Internet applications. Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of... (more)

Farata Systems, a world leader in the RIA space  has open sourced their Clear Toolkit framework for developing enterprise Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java.  The latest builds and the  source code of Clear Toolkit 3.1 are located at  http://sourceforge.net/proje... (more)

Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player, a new, over-the-air mobile runtime. The new player enables developers and content providers to create Flash technology-based applications that target the latest version of the runtime, ... (more)

Today, Adobe launched a new version of the Adobe AIR Marketplace—a user-friendly, online destination showcasing developer applications powered by Adobe AIR. Based on community feedback, the Adobe AIR Marketplace has been revamped to offer an enhanced user experience and more serv... (more)