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Blackberry 10 – Putting Developers First

Wed, 09 May 2012 05:00:00 EDT

Blackberry 10 OS is unveiled this week at Blackberry World. In many ways Blackberry 10 is probably the last chance for Blackberry to gain back the market share and be a formidable competition to other Smartphones. If the announcements at the conference are any indication, Blackberry is going all out this time to make their next generation of OS as the best smartphone platform.

Adobe, Looking to Stay Relevant, Goes Cloud

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:30:00 EDT

Adobe launched Creative Suite 6 Monday, the latest version of its flagship software kit for designers and web developers, and made it subscription-based, part of the company’s Creative Cloud. Pricing starts at $50 a month for a year’s commitment or $75 a month with no contract. Existing users may qualify for a $30-a-month promotion for the first year and there’s a version for business teams that’ll cost $70 a month that won’t be out for a while. Users can download Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects, InDesign and any of the also separately priced other programs in the bundle to a PC or Mac, share files and store work online in a 20GB locker.

Form(ing) Standards - Recycling Old Stuff Can Be Incredibly Painful

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EDT

I am on my favorite soapbox - "standards" - standards around form filling. Generally speaking, no discussion of standards could be complete without an assessment of the state of play of the not so humble Adobe Portable Document Format or as most of us know it, PDF. I debated the merits of the PDF back in the late 1990s (an astonishing 14 years ago) and with the passage of time, a few things have changed but in some respects they are the same. The reason this topic is quite focal for me at the moment, is the fact that I continue to see customers and prospects take a hard line in wanting to retain their existing PDF documents and at the same time, make them more technically relevant to the continuing trend of trying to eliminate paper forms and improve back office efficiency by avoiding the need for people to laboriously transcribe data from electronic forms into application screens of key record keeping systems like SAP ERP. This is an area where Winshuttle has made some significant in-roads in helping customers eliminate transcription from Excel and InfoPath into back office ERP systems through an integration layer built around the Microsoft product suite.

Digital Rapids Extends Closed Caption and Advertising Insertion Support with New Encoding and Streaming Updates

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:33:27 EDT

Adobe Flash Player licensing doesn’t apply to you!

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:08:06 EDT

Let me start with the punch line: Adobe’s announcement only applies to browser-based applications that use domain memory IN COMBINATION WITH hardware accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player If you don’t know what these features are, this announcement does not effect you. It’s funny to me how a simple statement gets construed when passed on to even... Read More

AllDigital Cracks the Code for High-Quality Android Streaming

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:00:40 EDT

IRVINE, Calif., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Gartner, Google's Android OS captured over 50% market share of all smartphone sales worldwide in the 3rd quarter of 2011. By any measurement, this revolutionary platform has been a tremendous success in the enterprise and with the global consumer base.

All Slots Casino Launches New Mobile App for Android Devices

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:34:04 EST

All Slots Casino has proudly launched its new mobile casino application for Android devices. The app runs on Adobe AIR and offers 22 casino games with high definition graphics and full sound effects. It is designed especially for Android smartphones and tablets running version 2.2 or higher.

PapayaMobile Surpasses 50 Million Users and Releases Social Splash for Facebook and Google+ Developers

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:03:10 EST

PapayaMobile (http://papayamobile.com), the leading social gaming network on Android & iOS, has blown past 50 million users as the company continues its aggressive growth strategy. In the last nine months since Papaya ceased publishing its own games, PapayaMobile has seen over 260% growth due to tremendous demand from third party mobile developers looking to integrate social features and virtual currency found in their SDK and Game Engine. Today, the company continues to put developers first with the launch of their latest development tool called “Social Splash.”

Mixamo and Flare3D Announce the Easiest Way to Get 3D in Your Flash 11 Project

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:00:50 EST

Mixamo, the first online 3D animation service, today announced an integrated workflow solution with the recently released Flare3D Studio. This takes advantage of Adobe® Flash Player 11, which includes Stage3D, a low level API that has taken 3D on the browser to the next level by leveraging the capabilities of the modern hardware GPU.

Will HTML Force You to Lie?

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:06:54 EST

OK, our company, Farata Systems has created this nice application using Adobe AIR, and our customers are happy. It’s not a simple CRUD though. We’ve implemented some cool stuff replacing tons of paper forms with PDF documents processing. PDF documents are being scanned, the OCR software processes them to automatically figure out what type of [...]

Reading Another Funny Document by Adobe

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:20:00 EST

Today Adobe released another document that brought tears into my eyes. Why they think that people are dumb? Why not just say, “We couldn’t figure out how to monetize Flex and we’re getting rid of the ballast”? Adobe is a public company, and, beside developers they have investors and their stock went more than 10% up since last (infamous) November. They’ve chosen investors over developers. This is understandable, but why keep lying to developers? Today’s doc contains lots of words, but the most important section is this: Adobe runtime support of Flex Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2, which are anticipated to ship in the first quarter of 2012, will be tested with applications built using Adobe Flex 4.6. Adobe will test future releases of Flash Player and AIR against the Adobe Flex 4.6 SDK and maintain backwards compatibility for five years.

Readium Open Source Initiative Launched to Accelerate EPUB 3 Adoption

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:45:00 EST

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) today announced the Readium Project, a new open source initiative to develop a comprehensive reference implementation of the IDPF EPUB® 3 standard. This vision will be achieved by building on WebKit, the widely adopted open source HTML5 rendering engine.

Three Tips to Successfully Load Test Adobe Flex Applications

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:31:00 EST

The world has changed dramatically for organizations that use web-enabled business applications in enterprise environments. The complexities of modern applications, which include multi-tiered, globally distributed architectures, SOA and a host of other new technologies, have forced major change in the way enterprises develop, test and manage web-enabled applications. Specifically, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flex allow a faster, more engaging, interactive experience with browser- enabled applications and services. While an attractive option for developing expanded application capabilities these RIA technologies bring new challenges to organizations that need to deploy application features and functions in a compressed time frame and at a lower cost.

Research and Markets: Solutions for App Developers and Publishers to Reduce Development Costs and Time to Market: A Detailed Report

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:38:18 EST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/736460/solutions_for_deve) has announced the addition of the "Solutions for Developers and Publishers to Reduce Development Costs and Time to Market" report to their offering.

Adobe Sends Flex to the Apache Foundation

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:00:00 EST

After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Adobe has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned by rival HTML5, a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs who openly loathed Adobe’s stuff. Flash’s future looks bleaker still considering Flex can build both desktop and mobile apps. The Apache Foundation will have to vote on whether it will take Flex and its roadmap under its wing. Flex has been open source since 2008 but will have to shift out from under Adobe’s control and be managed as an independent project.

The Rumors of Flash Player’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:02:00 EST

This morning ZD Net published an article stating the Adobe will cease development of Flash Player on Mobile in favor of packaging mobile applications in Adobe AIR. The Flash Player haters quickly picked up this news and to draw attention to their blogs/tabloids started to cash on Steve Job’s name starting that he won the battle with Adobe since Steve was the one who didn’t let Flash Player on iOS. As of now, I don’t know if these rumors are valid, but even if they are, this ain’t breaking news. Let me explain why in three simple sentences.

Adobe MAX 2011 Was Good Despite The Keynotes

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:30:00 EDT

Just came back from LA, where I spent three days at MAX – the main Adobe conference. Four people from our company were there and all liked it. I went there to see if the company is still strong, has a clear road map that, hopefully, matches my understanding of where IT population is moving.

Adobe’s Building a Cloud

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:15:00 EDT

In the fashion of the times Adobe is building a cloud and in the fashion of Adobe it’s called the Creative Cloud. Adobe calls it a major “transformative” new initiative. It’s meant to sell classic Adobe desktop and newfangled tablet applications. Adobe’s got a half-dozen cross-platform Touch Apps for content creation on tablets, Android to start in mid-November, Apple next year despite Apple’s rejection of Adobe’s Flash widgetry. In response to Apple’s distain Adobe seems to be moving increasingly to the more acceptable HTML 5. For instance, it’s buying Vancouver-based Nitobi Software, which makes PhoneGap, an open source platform for building cross-platform HTML5- and JavaScript-based mobile apps and donating its code to the Apache Software Foundation.

Adobe Sued After Buying EchoSign

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:30:00 EDT

On Monday Adobe said that it had acquired EchoSign, a start-up in the electronic signatures business. Price wasn’t disclosed but the outfit had raised at least $8.5 million from the venture capitalists. Adobe said it was going to move the e-sign widgetry into its online document exchange services platform, which is used for document access, review and approval. It also said it would integrate it with its document services like SendNow for managed file transfer, FormsCentral for forms creation and CreatePDF for online PDF creation. The acquisition had EchoSign founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, a lawyer by training, musing that between EchoSign’s ease-of-use for contracting on the web and Adobe’s brand, reach and trust in the document space, “I fully expect that electronic signatures will soon become the common way for people to sign documents.”

Sherlock Holmes and Adobe's Error #2032

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:30:00 EDT

During yesterday’s Flex training the students had to install an Adobe's sample application "Tour De Flex". Everyone did. Everyone but one student was able to run this application. He was getting a weird error “An Internet connection is required” even though he was online. No proxies. This student went through the badge install of this AIR application from his Firefox browser. After a quick interrogation, the student has revealed that he ignored several error messages #2032, which is the infamous streaming error that has no generic cure. Basically, that application was installed, but with a little brain tumor. Google returned nothing but friendly posts suggesting to connect to the Internet. Actually, there was one post that Tour De Flex periodically performs server pings to check that the Internet connection is in place. In cases like this you may get a feeling of loosing control.

Adobe AIR Dead on Desktop Linux

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:30:00 EDT

AIR has joined Adobe Reader in the dustbin of Adobe products on Linux. According to figures gathered by Netmarketshare that Adobe uses to justify its decision to terminate AIR on desktop Linux, desktop Linux accounts for less than 1% of the market. More important – from Adobe’s point-of-view – desktop Linux has accounted for less than 0.5% of lifetime AIR downloads so, instead, Adobe is off chasing the “mobile client,” the 200 million Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS devices that can download and run AIR apps. It’s killing off AIR and the AIR SDK for desktop Linux with the latest 2.7 release of AIR. The last Adobe release of AIR for desktop Linux is AIR 2.6.

RIM rolls out BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.0 with PlayBook launch

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:39:35 EDT

In tandem with last week’s North American retail release of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) introduced its BlackBerry WebWorks SDK 2.0 for Tablets and Smartphones as well as the final version of its Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, promising developers new tools to streamline and enhance their application projects. BlackBerry WebWorks [...]

Adobe Falls Out of Love with Linux

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Adobe quietly stopped supporting the thinly used Linux desktop last June, a development noticed by only a few like a smarting IBM, which reportedly has – or at least had – 16,000 Linux desktops inside. In the next couple of months Adobe is supposed to stop supporting AIR for Linux even though some 35% of developers are supposed to fancy Linux. The Linux desktop may have captured 1%-2% of PCs worldwide. Seems Linux doesn’t fit in with the mobile dislocation.

Flash Shows a White Flag

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EDT

After taking heavy fire from Steve Jobs over Flash, Adobe Tuesday ran up a white flag and produced a so-called experimental Flash Professional-to-HTML 5 automatic conversion tool called Wallaby so Flash files can run on Apple’s otherwise forbidden iPad and iPhone. It will work initially on simple stuff like banner ads and animations and create a mix of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that can be edited, if necessary, in Dreamweaver. It doesn’t support movies or sound yet and it reportedly works best at this point with output from the Webkit-based Safari and Chrome browsers.

Adobe Releases an Interesting Marketing Tool

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:02:00 EST

During the MAX 2010 conference, it was clear that Adobe was shifting its focus from Flash Player to HTML producing tools. At that conference, the announcement about the acquisition of Day Software was made without much fanfare. Oh well, it’s just another Content Management System (CMS). But after seeing an impressive demo of the release today of CQ5 (a part of Customer Experience Management Platform), I can attest - this is not yet another CMS. It really puts the marketing department of your organization in the driver’s seat when it comes to creating a Web site for promoting your products.

TI and its ecosystem partners showcase new mobile dimensions at Mobile World Congress 2011

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:55:00 EST

TI's booth (Hall 8, 8A84) impresses with demonstrations that illustrate the breadth of mobile experiences and the performance of the OMAP(TM) 4 platform

Adobe Puts Flash Server in Amazon Cloud

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:00:00 EST

This week, stalwart packaged applications software vendor Adobe announced the availability of its Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. It’s a move that should be good for both companies but one that also raises a few questions.

Adobe Announces Strategic Alliance Agreement with Deloitte

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:30:00 EST

Adobe Systems has announced a strategic agreement with Deloitte Consulting to create and deploy a new generation of applications designed to extend the power, reach and impact of enterprise systems for improved customer experience. “We are transforming user engagement with enterprise applications by unlocking their full value for our clients and their customers,” says Paul Clemmons, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP and emerging solutions national service line leader. “Through our alliance with Adobe, we are deploying user-centric, rich Internet solutions that simplify complex applications and integrate front end and back end systems for more productive and intuitive business processes.” “Customers are demanding new ways to interact with businesses, and businesses are responding by delivering richer, more intuitive experiences to customers across a range of digital devices,” said Al Hilwa, Program Director, Application Development Software, IDC. “The strategic alliance between Deloitte and Adobe will bring significant implementation expertise and software solutions to organizations who are working on improving customer access to their products and services.”

Attending Adobe and RIM Playbook Seminar

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:32:00 EST

I spent a day today attending Adobe and RIM (producer of all-over-the-place Blackberry) seminar about developing software for the upcoming Playbook tablet. If you haven’t heard about the Playbook yet, it’s a 7” dual-core 1Ghz machine with 1Gb of RAM, two video cameras, and multi-tasking.

Adobe to Open London Data Center for Omniture

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:45:00 EST

Adobe is opening a data center in a colocation facility outside of London that will serve its Omniture Business Unit customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It’s supposed to provide faster data processing, improved application usability and performance and expanded localized data storage capabilities. It’s also supposed to make Omniture compliant with privacy and data collection standards. It says, “Data collected on behalf of our European customers will be processed in Europe.”

Adobe Licenses Solid Documents Technology for Acrobat X

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST

Solid Documents, a developer of document reconstruction and archiving software, announced that Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe) has licensed the Solid Framework SDK for Adobe Acrobat X. Adobe Acrobat X takes advantage of Solid Documents' PDF to Word and Excel conversion capabilities, allowing Acrobat X users to easily reuse and repurpose PDF content. "After reviewing the available options, we chose to use Solid Framework technology for the conversion of PDF files to Microsoft® Word and Excel in Adobe Acrobat X. The document reconstruction quality is very good and the Solid Documents team has been a pleasure to work with on this project," said Aman Deep Nagpal, Senior Product Manager, Acrobat Solutions, at Adobe.

Adobe MAX 2010 Starts Today in Los Angeles

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:53:00 EDT

The main annual event for all Adobe fans starts today in Los Angeles, CA. \Below is an overview of Adobe’s news announcements today at MAX 2010. For more information, please visit the hyperlinks below or on the Adobe.com press room. You can also check out the MAX online press room for the latest Adobe news, videos and images throughout the week Additionally, on Monday, Oct. 25 and Tuesday, Oct. 26, MAX Online will feature the event keynotes—streamed live and on demand. Register at http://max.adobe.com/online/ if you’re interested in the news and activity coming out of MAX. Yakov Fain is there - follow him on Twitter @yfain for his latest notes.

Adobe Powers Multiscreen Revolution at MAX 2010

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:42:00 EDT

At its annual MAX conference on Monday, Adobe Systems Incorporated will showcase technology innovation that enables designers, developers and content owners to fully embrace today’s multiscreen revolution across PCs, smartphones, tablets and TVs. In the keynote address, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch will address the market forces driving a new era of multiscreen content authoring, delivery and measurement. He will highlight how Adobe is helping solve the challenges of delivering multiscreen experiences with both Flash and HTML5 across areas of content creation that include websites, digital publishing, online video, enterprise applications, and gaming. The keynote will begin today at 9:30 a.m. Pacific. Sign up for live streaming of the keynote at the MAX 2010 website at http://www.max.adobe.com/online/.

Adobe Extends AIR Applications Across Screens

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:39:00 EDT

Adobe on Monday announced Adobe AIR 2.5 software for televisions, tablets, smartphones and desktop operating systems. A key element of the Adobe Flash® Platform, AIR enables developers to leverage existing code to create and deliver standalone applications across devices and platforms. Adobe AIR now supports smartphones and tablets based on BlackBerry® Tablet OS, Android™, iOS, and desktops including Windows®, Macintosh and Linux® operating systems. In addition, Samsung will be the first television manufacturer to integrate support for Adobe AIR 2.5 in Samsung SmartTVs while Acer, HTC, Motorola, RIM, Samsung and others are expected to ship the runtime pre-installed on a variety of devices including tablets and smartphones later this year and early 2011.

Adobe Announces New Digital Publishing Suite

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:28:00 EDT

Adobe on Monday announced the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, providing publishers a set of turnkey hosted services and viewer technology to create, publish, optimize and sell digital content direct to consumers, through content retailers or leading mobile marketplaces. Built on the foundation of Adobe Creative Suite® and Adobe InDesign® CS5 software, the Digital Publishing Suite enables the design and delivery of innovative publisher-branded reading experiences, paired with flexible commerce models and support for deep analytics reporting. Using InDesign CS5, PDF, HTML5 and the Digital Publishing Suite, publishers will be able to efficiently author both fixed and adaptive layouts, natively build new levels of interactivity directly in InDesign, distribute and monetize their digital editions, and optimize their editorial and advertising content for a complete end-to-end digital publishing workflow.

Hybrid Flash Multicasting: The Next Generation of Enterprise Video

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:15:00 EDT

Hybrid Flash multicasting is the second and decisive wave of innovation that will enable enterprises to stream video without overtaxing their network infrastructures. It eliminates the usual tradeoffs between video consumption and network investment, regardless of increased video traffic in budget-constrained corporate networks. Hybrid Flash multicasting also solves the cost and complexity challenges of IP multicasting. By combining a new form of multicasting, known as application multicasting, which leverages a peer-assisted model of video sharing with an IP multicast network, a video stream can reach virtually everyone on the network using existing bandwidth and infrastructure. Hybrid multicasting finally unlocks the full potential for video within the enterprise by combining IP and application multicasting to deliver streaming media using the most efficient algorithms within a dynamic self-optimizing topology.

So Is Microsoft Gonna Buy Adobe?

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:30:00 EDT

Adobe had an interesting afternoon Thursday. That’s when the New York Times came out and blogged that it knew from employees and consultants who were involved or simply knew that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Flash-wielding, Apple-banned Adobe, met recently at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco for “secret” talks, and that they talked mostly about Apple’s control over smartphones and how Microsoft and Adobe could join forces in an anti-Apple front and that one of the ways of doing that would be for Microsoft to buy Adobe.

Adobe Abandons Linux Flash Builder

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:45:00 EDT

Adobe said Wednesday that’s it’s not going to put any more money into developing the Linux version of Flash Builder, once called Flex Builder, because there’s no money in it. The move could be a harbinger of other companies re-evaluating their Linux investments given the still nasty economic environment and the Linux community’s notorious proclivity for not being a revenue generator. Oracle, for one, which sees software as a business it controls, recently pulled the plug on OpenSolaris.

Biggies Reportedly Close to DOJ Deal on No-Poaching Agreements

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe, Intuit and Pixar were reportedly close to settling with the Justice late Thursday night over charges they colluded to hold down wages by not poaching each others’ people, the Wall Street Journal said. There are apparently other companies involved and the paper said some are more willing than others to settle to avoid an antitrust case. “If negotiations falter, both sides could be headed for a defining court battle that could help decide the legality of such arrangements throughout the U.S. economy,” it said. Apparently the DOJ has such evidence after a year-long probe. A court case could open the companies up to private claims, even class actions, if the government convinces a court such deals exist and workers suffered. The companies reportedly maintain the deals aren’t anti-competitive and scotching them would hinder collaboration and innovation. IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo have been investigation but apparently won’t be pursued.

Intel AppUp Store Up

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Intel’s Apple-aping AppUp store for laptops and Atom-based netbooks is now out of beta and functioning. Along with free apps it’s got “try before you buy” packages. The widgetry includes Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight applications. AppUp customers can use Adobe's beta application distribution platform Melrose to distribute and monetize AIR apps while monitoring sales and downloads. It’s a portal developers can use to distribute their applications through multiple channels. They can also integrate licensing into the apps with Adobe’s free SDK. Melrose should ship in Q4

Adobe Reorgs

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:45:00 EDT

Adobe now has a Creative and Interactive Solutions business unit headed by David Wadhwani, who ran its Platform business so the company can take a more integrated approach, and “deliver faster on our vision of multi-screen publishing and drive innovation and support for both Flash and HTML 5 authoring.” John Loiacono who ran Creative Solutions is now heading up a new Digital Media Solutions unit focused on the company’s core digital imaging franchise. Former Omniture CEO Josh James is leaving the company at the end of July and will be replaced by former Omniture biz dev VP Brad Rencher. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said Omniture now represents about 10% of Adobe’s revenue. Adobe bought Omniture 11 months ago for $1.8 billion.

Adobe Buys Day Software

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:45:00 EDT

Swiss-based web content management (WCM) house Day Software Holding AG got bought Wednesday by Adobe for roughly $240 million (255 million Swiss francs). Adobe is now going to tender for its outstanding stock offering $131.53 a share cash (139 Swiss francs), a 59% premium compared to its performance the last 60 days. Observers believe Day’s been positioning itself so Adobe would buy it. Adobe currently embeds Alfresco’s open source enterprise content management repository in its LiveCycle product and in its Acrobat.com service under an OEM arrangement but Day and Alfresco don’t seem to tangle in the marketplace.

Day to Be Acquired by Adobe - Implications?

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:37:00 EDT

On Wednesday, Adobe announced it was going to buy Day Software, another WCM manufacturer based in Basel, Switzerland, who uses the same technology foundation as Magnolia. As an initiator of the JCR standard and main contributor to Jackrabbit (the JCR reference implementation), Day is certainly important for the JCR ecosystem. Let's have a look at the possible implications of the deal for Magnolia. Adobe bought Omniture not even a year ago for 1.2B$, which was/is the leader in web analytics. With Day's CQ (their CMS), Adobe now has the final part in their portfolio to create, analyze and publish content. (I couldn't find out yet what part "Adobe Publish" plays. Seems to be an SaaS platform, so probably not competing with CQ.)

Adobe to Acquire Day Software

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:58:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated and Day Software Holding AG announced the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Adobe to launch a public tender offer to acquire all of the publicly held registered shares of Day Software for CHF139 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately CHF255 million on a fully diluted equity-value basis. This approximates US$240 million at the current exchange rate. Adobe’s acquisition of Day will strengthen the company’s enterprise software solutions with market leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings. This acquisition represents a significant market opportunity for Adobe to help organizations transform themselves by enabling them to create, manage, distribute and monetize content while optimizing the web experience for their customers.

One Less Thing for Flash to Worry About

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

Move Networks, a once-promising adaptive bit-rate video streaming house whose pricey plug-in-based technology was used at least briefly by Fox.com and ABC.com, has hit the wall running taking over $90 million in investments from Microsoft and Cisco, Hummer Winblad, Comcast, Benchmark Capital and Steamboat Ventures and Televista with it. Officially it’s looking for a buyer after failing to raise another $20 million. Staff has been laid off and its CEO, former DirecTV COO Roxanne Austin, is gone, replaced by its biz dev guy.

Disappointed with Adobe

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:40:00 EDT

I was not planning to write this post. It was ignited by the “Disappointed with Flex” article posted by Valery Silaev, our lead Flex/Java developer. I’ve been working with Valery on a couple of projects. He’s good software developer. And when he says that he’s disappointed with Flex 4, you should listen. I really value people who speak up freely and have something to say. Valery is disappointed with Flex 4, but I’d like to take it one step further. I’m disappointed with Adobe. To put it simple, Adobe is sloooooow. I mean really slow, and I’m not sure what’s the reason. I know some people from Flex team. They are smart. They can deliver given the right support from top management and proper investment, which is definitely not there.

Functional Testing of Flex RIA with FlexMonkey 4

Tue, 25 May 2010 12:49:00 EDT

There are three main types of testing of any application: Unit testing, where you test small pieces of functionality; Functional and user-acceptance testing where developers, QA engineers and the end user can ensure that the application does what it’s expected to do; and Load (or stress) testing, when you ensure that the server can process requests of the specified number of users. Rich Internet applications have are no different when it comes to testing. While the load testing software is not cheap, there affordable solutions for Flex applications that you need to know about. Flash Builder 4 nicely integrates FLexUnit4 and I highly encourage you not to ignore the unit testing. Just use it.

Google To Buy Key VoIP House

Tue, 18 May 2010 16:17:00 EDT

Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones. The deal, which represents a 27.5% premium over GIPs' closing price Friday, will also give Google ownership of parts of the technology underlying the instant messaging systems used by Yahoo, AOL and Baidu. Global IP Solutions makes the real-time processing software for voice and video calls over the Internet, widgetry used by IBM's Lotus Sametime as well as Cisco's WebEx scheme under a shiny new deal.

Flash Player Is Not Open = Big Fat Lie; HTML5 Is the Savior

Tue, 11 May 2010 15:30:00 EDT

The core of Flash Player is the Tamarin Virtual Machine, which is an open source project under Mozilla. While the SWF file format is not fully open, it is documented by the community on osflash.org. Additionally, there are numerous open source products that read and write SWF files. The Flash Player’s product direction has traditionally been heavily influenced by the community and their needs. The core language for Flash Player is an implementation of ECMAScript 262, which is the same specification for JavaScript. Flex also uses CSS for styling of components/applications.

Apple on Flash: Hey Steve, "C'mon Man"

Thu, 06 May 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Remember Hamlet and the quote, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"? While in this case it isn't a lady, the question still applies to Apple's CEO. Steven P. Jobs posted a 1,700-word letter on Apple’s Web site on Thursday, explaining the company’s decision not to allow the multimedia software Adobe Flash on Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad. The letter titled "Thoughts on Flash" ran the gamut from philosophical issues about the nature of closed platforms to complaints about performance and crashes.Why would Steve go to the trouble of sharing his "diatribe"? Think back to the Hamlet quote.