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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, B... (more)

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. ... (more)

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 ... (more)

MARKHAM, Canada, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Rapids has announced powerful new enhancements to the Digital Rapids Stream™ software for the company's StreamZ™, StreamZHD™ and Flux™ encoding solutions. The same new capabilities are also available as applicable in the ... (more)

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. Read the o... (more)

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 an... (more)

LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 03/06/12 -- 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 smar... (more)

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 26... (more)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/28/12 -- 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 ... (more)

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 s... (more)

Today Adobe released another document that brought tears to my eyes. Why do 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 ... (more)

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 forc... (more)

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. With the application development marke... (more)

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 ultima... (more)

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 o... (more)

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 populati... (more)

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-pl... (more)

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 ... (more)

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 prox... (more)

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 p... (more)