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Shrewd moves: Will Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its media server wag the Flash dog?

In case you missed the episode of the Dan & David Show that my colleague Dan Farber and I recorded this past Tuesday (early, because Dan is off to Taipei), one of the news bits we discussed was Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its high-end Flash Media Server. ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, Price Drop, Media Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Content, Handset, Server, Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Plug-in, Programming Languages, Internet, Java, Cellular Phones, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-06

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Adobe plugs hole in Flash Media Server

Adobe has shipped a Flash Media Server patch to fix a vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute remote procedures in Flash Media Interactive Server or Flash Media Streaming Server. The update is available for Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3.5.1, Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5.1...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Attacker, Media Server, Server, RPC, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-05-01

Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 (Windows)

Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 software has the unique combination of powerful streaming media capabilities and a flexible environment for creating and delivering interactive social media applications to the broadest possible audience. It offers dramatically improved performance, more secure streaming, live streaming enhancements, industry-standard H.264 and HE-AAC support, and...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Media, Server, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-03-24

Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodies

Microsoft rolls out Silverlight 3 beta and more developer goodiesSweet!Silverlight is a fantastic tech and is highly innovative.So? It's irrelevant.Silverlight is irrelevant. I expect the only thing that will ever unseat Flash as a multimedia widget will be some future open-source/no-license/no-hassle solution. Microsoft was fooling itself if it thought that...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Adobe pushes Flash forward; Bolsters SAP partnership

Adobe's MAX 2008 conference kicks off Monday and the shindig's theme is pretty simple: Extend its Flash platform into every software nook and cranny that it can by enlisting developers everywhere. Adobe's goal of reaching everyone with Flash isn't new, but the company every year makes more...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Partnership, SAP AG, Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'?

Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'?I'm more interested in SilverLightand its release date / improvement as a .Net developer. I don't care how some browser speeds Javascript up 1000 times. Browsers are lipstick, and Javascript is a pig. With RIA such as SilverLight, JavaFX and Flash out there, somebody...

Tags: Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Chrome Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., IE 8, Lite, Microsoft Do

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Vanguard Public Affairs Network Empowers Political Process With Wowza Flash Streaming

TVW (www.tvw.org) has been at the vanguard of Washington State political coverage since 1993. TVW envisioned a streaming solution that would allow them to reach the broadest possible audience with the least resistance. TVW needed to stream 24/7 live coverage of news and events, as well as allow citizens to...

Tags: Network, Programming, Live Streaming, Wowza Media Systems, TVW, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Case studies 2008-02-01

Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Facebook's Beacon fiasco for starters. At this point it's clear that Beacon was flawed from the beginning, and the company and its CEO are having trouble handling the controversy after earning their way to the top of the social...

Tags: Facebook, Podcast, Technorati, Blog, OpenDocument Format, Podcasts, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Internet, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Flash H.264 support and new pricing/availability for Flash Media Server 3

There are a couple of news announcements tonight by Adobe that are worth highlighting. They revolve around the video/media side of the Flash Player, something that Silverlight 1.0 focuses on and which has become ever more important in recent months as the explosion of rich media continues to reverberate through...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Media Server, Competition, Macromedia Flash Player, Video, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, H.264, Announcement, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Shared Folders (Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release)

Shared Folders (Windows Home Server - April 2007 CTP Release)Oh yeah, consumers will love thisTo claim this hits a home run is laughable. It's an interface only a Windows network administrator could love, and - news flash - that's not the aspiration of, let's say, 95% of all consumers.sureI...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, server, Windows Home, computer, Microsoft Windows Home Server, network, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies

Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Microsoft seeks to redefine RIA with Silverlight

Nearly everyone in the tech industry uses RIA as an acronym for "Rich Internet Applications." But not Microsoft. In Redmonds case, RIA stands for Rich Interactive Applications -- a term and topic the Softies are planning to make a focus during Microsofts appearance at the National Association of...

Tags: Zune, WPF/e, Expression Studio, Development tools, Code names

Blog posts 2007-04-16

"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side

At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as "WPF/E". Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because its one of Silverlights major strong points, Microsoft is talking a lot about video. I was briefed about...

Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Silverlight

Blog posts 2007-04-15

Adobe starts opening the kimono on its Apollo platform

Today, at Adobes offices in San Francisco (in an old lumber building dating back to the 1800s), Adobe is hosting a small briefing it has aptly titled "Engage." What makes the name appropriate? According to Adobe senior vice president and chief architect Kevin Lynch pictured left, the companies mantra moving...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Calculating Your Bandwidth and Software License Needs for Flash Media Server 2

Flash Media Server 2 provides a very powerful development environment that enables a person to deliver compelling, interactive audio and video applications. These applications can be as simple as a one-to-many streamed video or as complex as a many-to-many video conferencing system. Because of this, determining the number of users...

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Bandwidth, Media Server, Software License, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-19

First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere

Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a...

Tags: WPF/E, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workers

Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workersZillow presentationHi - Spencer from Zillow here. Just to clarify my comments from this afternoon's speech at the Interactive Local Media conference by the Kelsey Group: Our database of homes actually contains information on about 70 million homes, almost every home in America. This...

Tags: Databases, Product marketing, real estate, Zillow

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

Gartner: Think holistically (architecturally speaking) about mobile

Here, at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Gartner analysts for the first time are coming out and saying that its time for enterprises to decide on a strategic architecture to support mobile handset computing, and to begin deployments. Until now, according to analysts William Clark and Nick...

Tags: mobile marketing, mobile

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Worm lurks behind MySpace profiles

Worm lurks behind MySpace profilesIt is so nice for me that I didn't have a MySpace account...Better luck next time, as I don't have a MySpace account.]:) :DSquid Anyone?Its so much fun to block access to useless sites here at work!If its not useful, its a risk. Waste your own...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, MySpace, Adobe Systems Inc., worm, Adobe Flash

Discussion threads 2006-07-18