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"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Tradocs (www.tradocs.net ) today announced the availability of a jointly developed solution for the automation of international trade documents within supply chain processes with Intel Corporation. Demonstrated this week at the Sibos Conference in Sydney, Australia, the solution is based on the Tradocs Trade Services Utility (TSU) Connector Suite, Adobe® PDF and the SWIFT1 Trade Services Utility platform, powered by Intel ® Core™ 2 Duo processors for high performance computing."

"ANYONE SHOPPING for a new computer in the next six to twelve months is going to have one big headache facing them. (Except for the Mac people, who are happy to buy Macs regardless what is going on in the world). For the "rest of us" – the 90 percent of us that buy PC-based hardware (Well, I could say that's all of us, since the Mac people are buying simplified PCs with better looking cases and a different operating system, but the Mac people would argue not), there are tough choices ahead. If you want to stay on the leading/bleeding edge, Windows Vista will allegedly/supposedly be available in January 2007 and might show up installed on "Windows Vista" optimized configurations around that time or shortly thereafter."

"It's not just Windows Vista and Office 2007 that are closing in on their release-to-manufaturing (RTM) dates. Internet Explorer 7 is nearing the finish line, as well. In fact, according to a posting on the IE Blog, IE 7 is "coming later this month." "

"NEW DELHI: Adobe India is on a roll. In the past one month, the San Jose-based parent of the Indian unit has commercially released three products, completely "Made in India". Contribute 4.0, the latest product to have been released in the United States on Friday, was fully engineered in India, as were the other two, Captivate 2 and Premier Elements 3.0. "

"Japan's consumer electronics industry is dying, Sony's former chief says. Consumer electronics firms in Japan needed to merge and adapt to a world where the TV was becoming a portal to the internet, Nobuyuki Idei said. "

"How much will it cost to upgrade businesses to Windows Vista? Anyone who works in IT knows that pinning a number down for a question like this is a nigh-impossible task. Are you replacing hardware? Do you need to retrain users? What software are you using, anyway?"

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today at EDUCAUSE 2006 will highlight how educational institutions can extend learning beyond the campus with Adobe technologies. The combination of Adobe's web conferencing, collaboration software and easy-to-use multimedia creation tools give educators the opportunity to focus on the practices of effective teaching and learning among distributed participants."

"ZDNet reports that support for Windows XP SP1 and SP1a will be ending this coming Tuesday.'"

"Blame aside, what can users do who still need IE 6 to view certain sites and apps, but are unable to run it simultaneously with IE 7 on their systems, given that IE 7 overwrites IE 6? Microsoft's User Agent String Utility Version 2 may be just the ticket. The applet temporarily tricks IE 7 into behaving like IE 6. User Agent String, the latest release of which Microsoft posted to its download site in mid-September, is a "utility that opens an Internet Explorer 7.0 window that is configured to report its identity to websites as being Internet Explorer 6.0," according to Microsoft's description. "

"I didn't think it would happen, but it did: Google has agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The news comes after a cornucopia of press releases announcing Google and YouTube deals to distribute music videos from Universal, Sony, Warner Music, and CBS, paving the way for a relatively risk-free buyout from Google's perspective."

"A senior Microsoft executive has promised that its new operating system will be more secure than ever. Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, said that beefing-up security was one reason behind delays to Windows Vista. "

"Only a couple of weeks ago tech bad boy Mark Cuban publicly questioned the intelligence of anyone who would buy YouTube."

Interesting comments @ slashdot on windows. Well, some comments. Read more here.

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the acquisition of vector graphics technology developed by Actimagine, a company that develops, patents, and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics. With Flash® technology already established on high-end mobile handsets around the world, the acquisition will extend the reach of Adobe mobile technologies, including Adobe® Flash Lite™, to high-volume, mass market devices. Under the terms of the agreement, Actimagine will also incorporate existing and future versions of Adobe Flash Lite technology into their service offerings."

"Microsoft takes the gloves off with a new video comparing Visual Studio and Dreamweaver."

"Microsoft has produced a video comparison entitled "101 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Features Compared to Adobe Dreamweaver 8," and as the introduction on the Microsoft Web page describing the video says, "The gloves come off in this feature by feature video comparison of Visual Studio 2005 and Dreamweaver 8. We'll pull no punches as we take an in-depth look at each winning bout.""

"New browser usage statistics are out for September, and they're showing some interesting changes in browser market share. Internet Explorer, which has been the market share king for many years now, has been falling steadily since the launch of Firefox 1.0 and has now reached its lowest point in over two years at 82.10 percent. Firefox, on the other hand, has been growing steadily, reaching 12.46 percent market share. Safari holds its third place spot, but sees increasing numbers as well at 3.53 percent."

"Flex is one of the greatest technologies around. Combine it with ColdFusion and it just gets better. Adobe has made it possible to use Flex 2 efficiently with ColdFusion and easily get data across the server to a Flex front-end."

"Flex is one of the greatest technologies around. Combine it with ColdFusion and it just gets better. Adobe has made it possible to use Flex 2 efficiently with ColdFusion and easily get data across the server to a Flex front-end."

"Google just launched the feature I was kvetching about yesterday when I covered Zoho: an integrated file system for its productivity applications. Until now, documents created in Writely and in Google Spreadsheets lived separately. But in the new, publicly-available Google Docs and Spreadsheets, at docs.google.com, all the documents you create in either Docs (no more "Writely") or Spreadsheets are displayed in one interface, where you can tag your files, and sort them however you want. It's a big improvement."

As the title says, more on "Google Office". The discussion is very interesting. Read more here.

Interesting discussion going on at newswireless about Acrobat Connect. With quotes of Scott Fegette and all! Read more here.

"In the latest chapter of the ongoing feud between Microsoft and Adobe, Microsoft has now released a collection of videos on its Web site that gives viewers a head-to-head comparison between Dreamweaver 8, Adobe's site building application, and Microsoft's offering, Visual Studio 2005. In the bevy of comparative videos, Microsoft shows 101 Visual Studio features as compared to Dreamweaver 8. A somewhat uncharacteristically offensive move, Microsoft intros the feature with an attacking message. "The gloves come off in this feature by feature video comparison of Visual Studio 2005 and Dreamweaver 8. We'll pull no punches as we tale an in-depth look at each winning bout," it says on the site hosting the videos."

"The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned. Nitin Desai, chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), set up by the UN, warned that concerns over the net's future could lead to separation."

"Weeks into a new school year, Google has started courting K-12 teachers with a resource guide on how to use its applications in the classroom.

Late Wednesday, the search giant launched the site Google for Educators. The site includes how-to video tutorials for products like Blogger; lesson plans for applications like Google Earth; and links to a training academy to become a "Google certified teacher," a pilot program for teachers to learn about technology."

This article, published on October 9 has unleash a interesting discussion at CNet. At the same time, as I blogged yesterday, the BBC says that Microsoft has promised "Vista Security".
Read more on Why Microsoft is wrong on Vista security here.

Also read "Symantec and McAfee should stop crying about Vista" at ZDNet, huge discussion over there as well.

"Internet Explorer 7 is due to come out in the very near future (definitely before the end of October), and those who haven't tested the browser or made sure that their Web sites and applications work with it should start getting busy. One fairly useful tool that I've seen is the IE 7 Readiness Toolkit. " Read more here.

"Adobe has released updates to close holes in several of its products." Read more here.

"Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was just about ready to be shipped. The company also warned that, a few weeks after the browser's release, it would be distributed via Automatic Updates. In order to prevent mass chaos, Microsoft has said that the automatic installation of the new browser can be prevented, but how?"

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"In previous builds, we've been able to load our familiar Windows XP applications on Windows Vista with little difficulty. Not true with Windows Vista RC2 build 5744. We use TechSmith Camtasia to create and edit (ZDNet sister site) CNET Reviews videos; but unlike previous builds, within Windows Vista RC2 we were unable to display the playback, making edits impossible. A compatibility dialogue box advised us that we needed the flash.ocx file from Adobe Flash, which is not included within Windows Vista; but after installing that, we were still unable to use the video playback. Although Microsoft is giving software developers 90 days (more or less) to ready developers' products for a mass release of Windows Vista, we were surprised to find that lack of compatibility was a major issue in this release candidate."

PCAdvisor quotes Shantanu Narayen ( president and chief operating officer of Adobe) on Apollo:

""We're not yet laying out the complete roadmap but what we are doing is working with a set of developers to make sure it's right," he said. "Our goal is when it's available in the marketplace as an early beta for people to play with and develop applications, we want to make sure we've already incorporated as much feedback as we can.""

Read more here.

" Microsoft has released licenses for the Windows Vista operating system that dramatically differ from those for Windows XP in that they limit the number of times that retail editions can be transferred to another device and ban the two least-expensive versions from running in a virtual machine." Read more here.
Read also relate articles at: Slahsdot and The Inquirer.

You know, kind of article... but it was good seen the faces of the two hackers that say they had found a JavaScript-handling flaw that could be exploited to attack Firefox users (hoax).
Read more here.

In these times is important to reminder what Adobe stated on June: Read it here.

In this article, the author says that the Google's purchase of YouTube really does is begin to standardize how copyrighted video is made available online for free. At the end of the article he says:

"p.s. I was talking with Nate from BetaNews at a party last night, and he said something I haven't heard anybody else say: "You know who the big winner in all this really is? Adobe." Ten years after Flash debuted, it's everywhere"

"Groups such as Google, the leader in internet search technology, Symantec and McAfee, which provide security software, and Adobe, the maker of the PDF document reader, are concerned that their business will be harmed if Microsoft "bundles" rival versions of their products into Vista."

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"The ability to run Adobe-based RIAs offline could very well prove a significant thorn in Microsoft's side. And not only in terms of developer mindshare -- the battle lines for which were opened for debate on yesterday's Scobleizer. The Web dependency of today's RIAs are holding many enterprises back. Offline versions, however, could prove fruitful in not only overcoming Web-constrained limitations but also winning over widespread adoption."

With 1004 votes (octobre 14, 12:40 GMT+1), I'm closing the survey/poll on "What do you think of Actionscript Hero" opened on october 6. Thanks to all the people who give me the feedback. All the best! See the results here.
I'm moved for those 604 votes (60.2%) of love for Actionscript Hero! :D

"As Schroepfer told BetaNews, JavaScript 1.7 is an interim build, a "check point" on the way to finally implementing JavaScript 2.0, which is based on (actually a superset of) the ECMAscript 4.0 proposal that Netscape made to the ECMA standards body in 2003, and which incorporates Macromedia's (now Adobe's) ActionScript 2.0." Read more here.

"Google is again making life difficult for Microsoft--this time taking heart at the company's bread and butter, office applications"

Read it here.

"After threatening to delay the launch of Vista in both Europe and South Korea due to antitrust concerns, Microsoft has agreed to make changes, and has announced that they will ship the operating system on schedule worldwide."

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that major OEM printing partners will be demonstrating the integration of Adobe® PDF Print Engine into printing systems at Adobe's booth (booth No. 4229) and partner booths at Graph Expo, October 15 to 18 in Chicago. First introduced in April 2006, Adobe PDF Print Engine today powers products from the print industry's biggest names, with Agfa Graphics, Dainippon Screen, FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Kodak Graphic Communications Group, and RIPit all showcasing products utilizing this key print technology."

Adobe is seeking participants for a beta program for its Abode Fireworks 9 Web graphics and site layout design tool. Read more here.

"There's no doubt about it: Adobe's Portable Document Format—better known as PDF—is a choice tool for digital document delivery. Some might say that it's the tool for delivering complex documents to wide array of users, as its design allows for faithful rendering on any platform that supports PDF—application issues, font problems, layout quirks, etc., need need not apply."

"Adobe president and COO, Shantanu Narayen, spoke to us last week about the company's intriguing new Apollo initiative. As he explains in the video below, Apollo is designed to run rich Internet applications offline on PCs."

Jens C. Brynildsen of flashmagazine has published a nice article on "Who will win the developers?". Read it here.

"Following concerns raised by Adobe, Microsoft will be submitting the XML Paper Specification (XPS) file format that competes with Adobe's PDF format to a standards organisation and promises to do so 'shortly'. It will also be changing the licensing terms of the format." Read more here.

" Adobe Systems and Microsoft must speak directly to each other about changes the latter has agreed to make to its upcoming Vista operating system, the European Commission said Monday." Read more here.

"A smart piece at Ars Technica speculates that by pressuring Redmond to truly “open” XPS, the EU (if in fact it was the prime motivator in the case) has perhaps hurt Adobe’s market position, particularly if an “open” document format from Microsoft makes headway in the open source/Linux sector. We agree with Ars Technica that MS will undoubtedly retain legal control of its “open” format, as Adobe does with PDF. But XPS’s biggest blow to Adobe may well be that Office users will no longer need to buy its relatively expensive Acrobat software to have full editing capabilities over a portable document format. "

"[Microsoft] agreed that its new fixed-layout document format, XML, similar to that of Adobe's PDF files, will be scrutinsed by a standards setting body and that the licensing terms under which the format is made available to rival software companies will be revised."

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced the appointment of Ann Lewnes as senior vice president of corporate marketing and communications. Lewnes previously served as Intel Corporation's vice president of sales and marketing and director of partner marketing, which included responsibility for the “Intel Inside” program. Lewnes will join Adobe on Nov. 1, 2006 and will oversee Adobe's corporate positioning, branding and identity, public relations, customer engagement marketing and vertical marketing efforts. She replaces Melissa Dyrdahl who has decided to leave the company to pursue her interest in social entrepreneurism." Read more here.

"Mozilla has established a "feature brainstorming" wiki [link] where users can post a wish-list of hoped-for features. Requests are been divided into categories such as browser customisation, enhanced privacy, security, improvements to Firefox's download manager and many other areas."

Is this the way we will all be 'enjoying' our television programmes and computer games in the future? [Via Geeks New Central]

"Google's intention to drive advertising profits through the acquisition of this year's hottest web property may actually be the move that ends up killing the golden GooTube." Read more here.

"Microsoft's Windows Vista is nearing completion for retail distribution in January, but many buyers will discover that a stand-alone graphics processor or card is required to reap its full benefits."

A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads. There is one ad of Commodore 64! [Via Slashdot]

"Italian Flash news and information site actionscript.it has announced a call for submissions to its second annual Mobile Game Contest, sponsored by Jamba, Adobe, and O'Reilly, with a January 29, 2007 deadline." Alessandro Crugnola will be part of the jury. Read more here.

"Microsoft is also throwing a concession to Google and others by changing how IE7 assigns a default search engine, as well as to Adobe -- which had threatened to squeal to the EU about Microsoft’s XPS document format and the infamous "save as PDF" feature -- by agreeing to submit XPS to an independent standards organization. (Both of those moves, incidentally, could harm more than help Google and Adobe -- especially Adobe, which seems to be doing everything it can to weaken its PDF enterprise and hand Microsoft its market share.)"

"Earlier this week, I asked whether or not Symantec and McAfee would be satisfied with Microsoft's decision to expose an API to Vista's kernel rather than remove its core protection technology called PatchGuard. Symantec has responded to the question, and as suspected, the security company is not pleased."

"A game based in the midst of the conflict in the Palestinian territories is set to be the latest release in the trend of politically-conscious gaming."

Find the last 74 articles and tutorials of the Adobe Developer Center on Flex at The Definitive List here.

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired Serious Magic Inc.™, maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It™ delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe's leadership position in video software -- for both video professionals and consumers."

As everybody knows, the flash player 9 beta for linux is available to download here. Good job Flash Team! Emmy's post is a must read.

"Microsoft has released to manufacturing the final Internet Explorer (IE) 7 bits for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. But that doesn't mean you and/or your organization will actually have them pushed to you via Automatic Update any time soon." Read more here. Dowload IE7 here.

I've dowloaded IE 7 for testing purposes. After the installation, characters changed in outlook. Tabs! No quite like firefox but tabs anyway. In the installation settings I agreed in some visual stuff and Movable Type's interface looks... clear I guess. Now the menu are icons and... it smells... Vista...
Dowload IE 7 here. The discusion takes place at slashdot here.

"Ms Dewey is good for a bit of a laugh, but has little or no chance of forming a long term relationship, given that she's amazingly slow at coming up with results, and they are displayed in an extremely poor way."

"INSECURITY FIRM Secunia, has already found an insecurity in newly unleashed IE7. The vulnerability can be exploited to disclose potentially sensitive information the firm says, though it gives it just two out of five on its criticality meter. An exasperated Thomas Kristensen, CTO of Secunnia says, "It is the half-year old information disclosure vulnerability which allows malicious sites to sneak on the content of other sites which hasn't been patched in the brand new IE7 release." "

I never before heard this kind of talk on Actionscript... Never... Search "actionscript" with Ms Dewey search engine. Its worth!
Don't be curious, don't search for "take off your clothes" (tip of one reader of actionscript hero)!
BTW if you find other funny searches use the comments!

"It seems that Microsoft's brand-new Internet Explorer 7 browser, which was just released Oct. 18 for Windows XP, has already failed a security test. An advisory from Secunia, released Oct. 19, says the gold version of IE 7 was shipped with an information disclosure flaw that could be used in spoofing attacks. "

"Microsoft has defused what would be the most serious issue: a first security hole in the browser since its official release. There is a vulnerability, but in Outlook Express, not IE, Christopher Budd, a Microsoft security response representative, wrote on a corporate Microsoft blog Thursday. Security firms, including Secunia, had reported a flaw in IE 7." Read more here.

"Blog discussions are swirling around comparisons between IE 7 and rival products, security problems and speed of use, among other topics."

"The Ubuntu team not only released the first release candidate for Edgy Eft (release notes), but also started pondering their next release, dubbed the 'Feisty Fawn'."

"The ActiveX footprint in IE7 is about 90% smaller than IE6 because almost all of the ActiveX controls were completely disabled by default and only the most critical ActiveX controls for things like Media Player and Adobe Flash were kept on." Read more on "The bottom line on IE7".

"Rockgod writes "Google Analytics Senior Manager Brett Crosby unveiled the tool, called Google Website Optimizer, this morning at the eMetrics summit in Washington D.C."

Really, don't do it. Ms Dewey is rude. Grr

"For the first time in five years, Microsoft has released a new version of the Web browser. CNET News.com's Joris Evers and CNET.com's Robert Vamosi discuss IE 7's heavily promoted security features in this week's Security Bites."

"Adobe Systems didn’t start the year so hot. But it’s how you finish the race that counts, right?"

jg21 writes "Web 2.0 Journal has an essay on 'The Post-Modern Rhetoric of High Technology' in which the author contends that Web 2.0 is nothing less than 'the advent of the Post-Modern Internet. Will Web 2.0 be a revolution or a mere rebellion?"

"Oracle has the ability to support Linux, and doing so could have "tactical value" for the database company, the founder of Ubuntu Linux--and a potential Oracle partner--said Friday."

"How Adobe launched a revolution" by Ryan Blitstein, Mercury News. Read it here.

"Five things to know about John Warnock and Chuck Geschke" Read it here.

JD writes:

"Tag 'adobemax06': If you're reporting on the Adobe MAX 2006 event, whether on-site or remote, then the keyword "adobemax06" can help others find it, thanks."

"I keep meaning to produce some linkbait, and a list of great computer flops might work. Well, it appears to be working for the Real World blog with 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time. This is probably not the worst top 10 of its kind. However, it does include some things that didn't flop at all (CP/M, Windows Me) while not mentioning mention Windows 1.0 or 2.0, and the list also misses a long string of hardware flops. For example: 3DO, Amstrad PenPad, Apple Cube, Apple Pippin, Atari Falcon, Be BeBox, Coleco Adam, Commodore CD32, Commodore Plus 4, DEC Rainbow, Elan/Flan Enterprise, Go, Netpliance i-Opener, Oracle's Network Computer, Osborne Executive, Philips CDi, Sinclair QL... There are probably a few dozen more, including some from Acorn and Psion that a US user might well miss."

"rdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him."

"An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 2.0 for Tuesday, says the Seattle PI. They give a quick recap of some of the new features, and discuss the ongoing IE vs. Fox debate.""

I've been working with Adobe Breeze and I have to say that it rocks! For a overview click here. To experience Breeze Meting click here. Finally, there is a 15 day trial here.
I'm preparing some presentations right now and I hope ro share them soon.

"Oracle and Adobe today announced they are working together to enable developers to easily create Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise. For the first time, enterprise applications will be able to include animations, charts and graphs in Adobe(R) Flash(R) combined with other AJAX content surfaced in a rich Java- based portal such as Oracle Portal, which is part of the Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware product family."

"To keep the online video revolution moving, there is something very important: editing tools. Basically, editing video is no easy feat, which often requires expensive software and lots of training. Well, it looks like Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) saw the opportunity and ceased it. That is, the company recently purchased Serious Magic, which has a variety of video tools, such as Vlog (for editing) and Video Communicator (for clip production)."

"Firefox 2.0 will be officially released tomorrow, but we have spotted what looks to be the official release in a newly-created directory on the Mozilla Foundation's FTP servers."

"Oracle announced today that it has teamed up with Adobe to enable enterprise software engineers to combine animations, charts and graphs in Flash with AJAX content created for Java-based portals." Read more here.

"A new email from Apple notes that it is actively soliciting feedback on the development of its QuickTime software for Windows Vista, Microsoft's next generation operating system expected to be released early next year.... Adobe has announced the five-city Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium tour, a seminar series event that focuses on the new version of the design suite that now includes Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software and Dreamweaver 8, the Web development tool...." Read more here.

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced the public beta of Adobe® Digital Editions, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing. With native support for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as well as an XHTML-based reflow-centric publication format, Digital Editions delivers an engaging way to acquire, read, and manage content, including eBooks, digital magazines, digital newspapers and other digital publications. Initially available as a free public beta for Windows®, Digital Editions will support Macintosh systems as a universal binary application, Linux® platforms, as well as mobile phones and other embedded devices in future versions."

"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 and engaging content and experiences. Adobe is previewing the company’s next-generation technology, code-named Apollo, for developing rich Internet applications for the desktop, and debuting the public beta of Adobe Digital Editions, new software for interacting with eBooks and digital publications (see separate release)."

"Adobe Systems thinks it's time to revisit electronic books. The publishing software company on Tuesday is scheduled to release a beta of an e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions at its Max 2006 customer conference in Las Vegas. "

"As Mozilla vice president for engineering Mike Schroepfer told BetaNews in an interview, JavaScript 1.7 is an interim build - a "check point" on the way to finally implementing JavaScript 2.0, which is based on (actually a superset of) the ECMAscript 4.0 proposal that Netscape made to the ECMA standards body in 2003, and which incorporates Macromedia's (now Adobe's) ActionScript 2.0." Read more here.

"The Shuttleworth Foundation is driving an open source software suite called Ubuntu - from the Zulu word meaning "humanity to others". Based on the Linux operating system, Ubuntu provides a desktop environment that works as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. Unlike Windows or Mac OS, Ubuntu - being open source - is free. "

"AppFusion, the leading provider of Rich Internet Applications based Business Intelligence solutions announced today that it plans to provide full support for Apollo, Adobe’s upcoming cross-operating system runtime for deploying Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop."

"“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 (pictured), president and COO at Adobe, as he today introduced at the MAX 2006 Conference & Expo in Las Vegas the public beta of Adobe's new Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing."

"You can now vote for your favourite video blogger in the Vloggies, and there are plenty of categories to choose from.
[...] Even if you don't plan to vote, it's an interesting look at what's available now and has some level of recognition. Pity it's all on one long page..." [Via The Guardian].

"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 first MAX developer and customer event since joining forces with Macromedia." Read more here.

"There's always an inherent danger, for any company getting behind a meta-theme like "revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information ­ anytime, anywhere and through any medium," that it has defined a wish rather than a reality. The thousands of developers assembled in the keynote hall of The Sands Expo Center here in Las Vegas are undoubtedly united in a desire to decide for themselves which applies." Read more here.

"ColdFusion developers have known for years how powerful rapid development can be and how much of a difference that makes when building dynamic Web applications. Over the course of a little more than a year we've watched as the Web model was turned on its head in favor of something that feels much more intuitive and is much more user-friendly. Part of this change has come about because of what most people call "Web 2.0." Web 2.0 has brought about more buzzwords than a marketing convention. A lot of normal users have stopped trying to figure out what tagging is, what AJAX means, or what the blogosphere really is. They have to be wondering why most of the Web sites they're using suddenly have "beta" on them."

8 Steps to Capturing Developers' Hearts and Minds. Read it here.

"During the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, which began October 23 and continues through the 26th, Kevin Lynch, the company’s Senior VP and Chief Software Architect, announced that Adobe will be creating a $100,000,000 venture fund that will be available to innovative companies using Adobe technology."

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is extending its powerful toolset for designing and deploying a new class of rich Internet applications to the Apple Macintosh platform. Unveiled at the MAX 2006 Adobe user conference, the pre-release version of Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 for the Mac enables developers on the Macintosh platform to build next generation Web applications that combine the benefits of desktop software with the reach of the Web to create more engaging user experiences. With support for both Intel® and PowerPC® hardware, pre-release versions of Flex Builder 2 for the Mac and the Flex Builder 2 Eclipse™ Plug-in for the Mac are now publicly available at Adobe Labs, at https://www.labs.adobe.com/ ."

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Teleca today announced an agreement to provide comprehensive implementation support for Adobe® Flash® Lite™ and FlashCast™ solutions to mobile operators and handset original equipment manufacturers (OEM) worldwide."

"At MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, Verizon Wireless, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Lite™ technology via the Verizon Wireless network. Flash Lite for BREW® facilitates Flash content to run on Verizon Wireless' Get It Now®-enabled phones and enables over-the-air distribution, giving Verizon Wireless customers the ability to purchase applications and automatically “Flash enable” their phones. The alliance will provide developers in North America a new way to create and commercialize rich mobile applications and content that deliver exceptional mobile experiences to millions of Verizon Wireless customers."

" Buertio writes, "A week with IE takes a look at IE7 from the perspective of a long-time Firefox user. The verdict? Microsoft has come a long way but still has some way to go before taking on Firefox and Opera." "

" Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it is boosting its fourth-quarter earnings guidance based on a gain from the recent sale of an equity investment. The company now expects earnings between 29 cents and 32 cents per share, up from previous guidance between 19 cents and 22 cents per share. Besides the gain, Adobe said it will incur lower stock compensation expense than was originally expected."

"Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) today is providing its regular intra-quarter business update for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, which ends December 1, 2006. With more than five weeks remaining in its fourth quarter, Adobe reaffirmed it believes the Company will achieve quarterly revenue of $655 to $685 million. This original revenue target range was provided by the Company on September 14, 2006."

"New Shockwave Minis Built on Adobe Flash Lite Platform Offer Consumers Wide Selection of Fun, Quick and Easy to Play Casual Mobile Games; Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and MTV's Pimp My Ride Among New Titles"

"Adobe Systems plans to spend $100 million in venture funding to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run Web applications without a browser. Company executives at Adobe's Max developer conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday disclosed the plans to fund third-party software start-ups, in allocations over the next three to five years. The software maker also released a preview version of Apollo and other development-related tooling. "