Flex News Desk

OAKLAND, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- (Photoshop World, Booth 105) -- Paravue(R) Inc., today announced Turbo Mask(TM), an image masking tool designed for graphic and web designers, photographers, and motion graphic artists that work with Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS Ext... (more)

Ted Patrick, a noted Flex Evangelist from Adobe has published a list of top dozen of consulting firms that offer application development using Adobe Flex. Ted writes, "The list is based on the consulting firms that I have worked with directly and who have delivered multiple succ... (more)

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, New York City - Farata Systems, a leading provider of Flex and Java services and components has announced availability of the alpha version of the first community site www.myflex.org that will become a repository for commercial Flex components and Ecl... (more)

AJAX and Flash Together By Mike Potter from www.riapedia.com Many people are confused about the relationship between Flash, Flex and AJAX. It's a bit tricky, because in many cases the three technologies are similar to each other: all three allow web developers to add dynamic eleme... (more)

Another 'Flex Developer Bootcamp' is in full swing here today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, as SYS-CON Events presents the latest in the 2007 series of this sellout one-day program of hands-on learning about Flex...not by talking about it as much as by ... (more)

"By releasing the full PDF specification for ISO standardization, we are reinforcing our commitment to openness," said Kevin Lynch (pictured talking to Jeremy Geelan on SYS-CON.TV), SVP and chief software architect at Adobe, as Adobe today announced that it intends to release the... (more)

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. "The feedback from users during our Acrobat Co... (more)

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 ... (more)

'As people increasingly communicate and collaborate across the Internet, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Connect enable an effective workflow around documents,' said Kevin Lynch (pictured speaking on SYS-CON.TV), Adobe's visionary SVP and chief software architect, as it was announ... (more)

"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 (pictured), SVP of Adobe's Knowledge Worker Business Unit, as Adobe yesterday introduced Adobe Document Center... (more)

'It's not often that I wish I was in America,' wrote 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 a... (more)

"ABC and NBC and pop culture phenomena like YouTube and MySpace are relying on Adobe technologies to reach new audiences," said Shantanu Narayen (pictured), president and COO at Adobe, as it was announced that the company had won a Technical and Engineering Emmy Award from the Na... (more)

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. "We've long recognized the power of Google and have successfully included their ... (more)

"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 here in Las Vegas at MAX 2006, the biggest ever Adobe developer conference. "Th... (more)

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 a... (more)

"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 (pictured), Adobe SVP & Chief Software Architect today here in Las Vegas, where Adobe is staging its... (more)

“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 (pi... (more)

"We look forward to accelerating the existing momentum of Flash and increasing its reach and capabilities in mass market mobile phones," said Andre Pagnac (pictured), CEO of Actimagine, as Adobe today announced the acquisition of Actimagine's vector graphics technology. "We are v... (more)

There were  a couple  major shifts in the software industry in the past: from Mainframe and dumb terminals to client-server desktop applications (fat client);  from client-server to Web-based plain looking applications (thin client again). With the last move we've sacrificed some... (more)

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 M... (more)