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 Adobe should cut its losses with Apple and target its flagship Flash Player at telecoms carriers, independent analyst Ovum has claimed in a new report*.
With the spat over Apple's refusal to support the Adobe Flash technology on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices continuing to ...Jun. 29, 2010 09:11 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 Replies: 1 |
 When a new version of a software is released, the old version lives for a while and its creators usually care about supporting it. Yesterday, after reading about the release of Cairngorm 3, it’s clear that Adobe Consulting ignores this rule. Why did they quietly burried Cairngorm 2?May. 20, 2010 05:50 AM EDT Reads: 1,719 |
 As software developers, our mission is to deliver positive, technology-based solutions – software that provides both the means and the method for working faster, performing better, achieving more. There is little doubt that the technologies we create provide users with the control and ...May. 9, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,473 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...May. 2, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,780 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product feature...Apr. 30, 2010 05:33 AM EDT Reads: 1,145 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...Apr. 29, 2010 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,990 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe introduced its Creative Suite 5 (CS5) Monday, the thing on which nearly 60% of its revenues depends, the thing that’s got to sell better than recession-tossed CS4 did, in the middle of a hailstorm that drew more attention to it than it normally would have gotten.
Last Thursday ...Apr. 16, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,594 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe has opened the first of three new geographically diverse data centers for its bought-in Business Catalyst service, a hosted services platform for professional web designers that’s supposed to save them the trouble of back-end coding.
The place is in North America and will be j...Apr. 2, 2010 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,269 Replies: 1 |
 Focus Washington TechView recently sat down with Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president for Business Productivity Solutions at Adobe Systems Incorporated, to discuss Open Government and its application around the world. The two-part interview examines the role of technology in today's citi...Apr. 1, 2010 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,031 |
 The unveiling of the next major release of Adobe’s flagship Creative Suite apps is due on April 12 with availability of the kit in English following a month later. There hasn’t been a rev since September of 2008. Adobe named the date when it reported fiscal first-quarter earnings down ...Mar. 27, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,478 |
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate
availability of Adobe®
Flash® Builder™ 4 and ColdFusion®
Builder™ software, next generation Flash Platform tooling for
building multi-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs...Mar. 22, 2010 05:19 AM EDT Reads: 3,571 |
 Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools.
Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3.
While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software f...Mar. 16, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,792 Replies: 3 |
 Remember that on-demand version of its document-centric LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 that Adobe promised? The first cloud version of the thing? Well, it’s here and it’s called LiveCycle Managed Services EC2. It’s a subscription-based version of the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite that Adobe...Feb. 14, 2010 10:15 PM EST Reads: 2,421 |
 This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube – started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5 and h.264 video codec.
This means that today the option...Feb. 7, 2010 11:00 PM EST Reads: 4,556 |
| "We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them... I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee ... Feb. 7, 2010 08:00 PM EST Reads: 8,258 |
 Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional crème brulee. This time I’ve also ordered a small glass of Sauternes wine. Then we went to our friend’s house to follow it with some good old port.
But no matter what software developers drink or eat in Februa...Feb. 6, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 7,694 Replies: 4 |
 Did you know that PHP runs on Windows?? Run Drupal, WordPress, SugarCRM, or other PHP-based apps on Windows today with the free Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Microsoft WebsiteSpark is a specially designed program for PHP Web developers and designers to help you explore running on W...Feb. 2, 2010 11:00 PM EST Reads: 7,476 |
 A zero-day Acrobat security hole in the buggy Adobe Reader, software that’s on practically every PC in the world, may be how Chinese hackers pulled off the cyber-attack on Google that has Google threatening to pull out of China, the world’s largest Internet market, according to iDefens...Jan. 18, 2010 09:45 AM EST Reads: 4,769 |
 In my previous post I pointed to the BlazeDS classes that need to be replaced in order to prevent ActionScript Number.NaN from turning into Long or Integer zeroes on the MessageBroker side. The recommendation boiled down to re-jaring flex-messaging-core.jar or placing the modified clas...Jan. 9, 2010 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,481 |
 This time of year is a favorite for children of all ages – I happen to be one of these kids – in part because of the television programs that are shown around Christmas. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Ch...Dec. 23, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,110 |
 Adobe LCDS 3 really shines with its newly introduced model-driven development workflow. This article is not a review of its features, but rather an early feedback and some suggestions for future releases. Fire that guy who already reached his level of incompetency and said, “If one sal...Dec. 21, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,319 |
 Adobe put out this press release - well, kinda, it was released at 6am Saturday morning and the company didn't bother to tell its staff about it, least of all its sales people. Anyway, it's about how Acrobat.com, Adobe's contribution to the flock of Office-challenging web apps, has hit...Dec. 13, 2009 06:15 PM EST Reads: 5,968 |
 Yeah, it's this time of the year. Again. Making predictions is so tempting... This year I'll cover just the iPhone. Apple will let Flash Player on iPhone no later than October ’10. They don’t have a choice, if they want to stay competitive. Enough of a crippled Web browser already. Act...Dec. 12, 2009 11:00 PM EST Reads: 5,754 |
 They discussed cloud computing, transparency, and Adobe's approach to this key aspect of the government market. A phenomenon born out of the connectivity of the Web, cloud computing can help address key challenges such as making it easier for government to interconnect systems, share d...Dec. 7, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 4,051 |
 Adobe Flex is a software development approach and environment which enables the production of cross-platform Rich Internet Applications. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is the cross-platform runtime environment used by Flex (as well as Flash, HTML, JavaScript and AJAX) for deployment o...Dec. 6, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 2,306 |
 Adobe is cutting another 680 full-time jobs worldwide, around 9% of its pre-Omniture workforce, to align its costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and “the realities of the business environment,” according to an SEC filing. It previously said it would cut 9% of Omniture’s 1,200 peo...Nov. 11, 2009 07:15 AM EST Reads: 3,691 |
 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 realities...Nov. 10, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 1,834 |
 Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and an Adobe Solution Partner, today announced the general availability of ColdFusion 9 in its Cloud and Dedicated environments. Hosting.com is the first provider to launch ColdFusion 9's avail...Oct. 30, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,210 |
 Web Page Performance was one of the big topics at the Ajax Experience in Boston this week. Steve Souders - author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites - talked about the top things to look into when analyzing web page performance.Oct. 29, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,955 |
 Adobe in a strategic deal with Salesforce.com has put out a jointly developed, Eclipse-based Flash Builder for Force.com IDE - well, at least a developer preview - integrating their two platforms in the name of greater developer productivity in creating what they claim will be a "new g...Oct. 27, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,282 |
 Adobe is nosing its flagship ColdFusion rapid web site and Internet application development platform onto multiple clouds. Turns out it's been quietly collaborating with Alagad, a North Carolina web development services provider, on a cloud implementation of ColdFusion 9. Adobe just re...Oct. 6, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,049 |
 A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday claiming that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which must be on every computer in the universe, treads on its patent for processing text. It's asking for unspecified damages. The widgetry involved lets...Sep. 30, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,785 |
 I try to go easy on frameworks in the classroom, because there could be lots of non-technical reasons for adopting this or that framework. I also know that people who created frameworks are seasoned developers with their vision of how things should be done. No disrespect here. But if t...Sep. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,304 |
 In ten days I’ll be sitting at the general session at Adobe MAX 09 in LA. People from Adobe will come up on stage one after another delivering the latest news on the products we all use daily. Here’s my short wish list of the news I’d like to hear. I’m sure people who are using Creati...Sep. 23, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,160 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Fig Leaf Software, a full service Web design, development and training company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), which will take place on October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washin...Sep. 21, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,909 |
 Even though it's considered bad practice, it's often handy to eval code in JavaScript. And in my case, it was simply necessary, since the JSF specification requires eval of scripts. And it's also necessary to execute those evaluated scripts in the global scope. It's not as easy as it ...Sep. 8, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,065 |
 In 2006 Microsoft began releasing a series of designer focused tools. The big question was: Why? Adobe has the best tools, doesn’t it? There is no doubt that Adobe’s tools are very good, what is clear, however, is that Microsoft is taking design seriously for this to be accomplished Mi...Sep. 7, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,425 |
 Most companies pay a lot of attention to their homepage. But, with search results driving a majority of click through, what happens when your website visitors come in through the back door via an internal page? All of your web pages must establish context to keep your visitors from bou...Sep. 7, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,221 |
 The growth of Web 2.0 has lead to far greater opportunities for such retail giants outside to the obvious sales growth. With more of us sharing personal information online through sites like Facebook, Linkedin, MeettheBoss and Xing, companies can monetize online investment through anal...Sep. 1, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,002 |
 To most who practice it, technology is a religion. So it will come as no surprise that one amongst us now claims to have discovered the “true Cloud,” the Cloud beyond simple development, the Cloud that brings us to the nirvana of serious application deployment and production via the cl...Aug. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,465 |
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