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Image: The buzz on Virtual Ubiquity

Screenshots show Virtual Ubiquity's Flash-based online word processor, "Buzzword," expected to launch in a limited beta this spring.

Tags: Word processors, Virtual Ubiquity, word-processor, beta

Image galleries 2007-03-21

Adobe Engage: Virtual Ubiquity - BuzzWord

Sorry again about the lack of pictures. For this app it really hurts because screenshots are hard to come by. When I get some, Ill make sure to post them. Theyre saving the best demos for last, and Virtual Ubiquitys word processor application, BuzzWord, looks like an awesome application....

Tags: Adobe Engage, Virtual Ubiquity, Rich Internet Applications, Flex

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Adobe is "Engaging" bloggers - here's what to look for

Adobe invited a bunch of bloggers to visit campus this week Tuesday and part of Wednesday for their Engage event and a look at what companies are doing with Adobe technologies. If youve been following the company, a lot of what youll hear is probably not new information. However...

Tags: Scrybe, Virtual Ubiquity, Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flex, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Additional Resources

Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial

I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Win 7, Ext4, Karmic Koala

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft

Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Divide-and-conquer, netbook, Language Support, Debian, Canonical, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Novell delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company's expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. ...

Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, High Availability Extension, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-24

JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer? Ryan Naraine: Google Chrome, the security...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

The Eternal Floppy Disk: The Icon that Never Dies

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for eons, at least in computing years. And,...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Disk, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Should we even bother?

A reader posted an interesting comment last week on my blog, "Bring it on (a Mac, that is)" that I felt was worth a post of its own. His question was a good one, as he tried to determine the value of digital content in education: ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Teacher, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Windows Mobile present and future, welcome to the HTC MAGIC Labs

Introductions: Today was the first full day of discussions and presentations at the Mobius 2007 event in Amsterdam following last night's evening reception. John Starkweather started off the day by laying out the ground rules for the event where most everything was completely open and we were invited to interact...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Chipset, Chipsets, Components, Device, Handhelds, Hardware, High Tech Computer Corp., MAGIC Labs, Marketing, Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Mobius, Operating Systems, Photograph, Qualcomm Inc., Semiconductors, Social Computing, Software, Sony Reader

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Why Microsoft hates Google's Android

Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton group, just posted a sarcastic and inaccurate analysis of Android on the company's blog. In his article, called "Why Microsoft Loves Google's Android", Monson-Haefel claims that Microsoft should be "secretly celebrating" Google's introduction of Android. "Android is perhaps the best thing to happen...

Tags: Java Platform, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Android, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-11-28

Cal fires: broadband, digicam ubiquity enable these"citizen" videos of tragedy to hit the Web with force

With little room for debate, the most dramatic doemstic U.S. news story this week is the terrible fires raging in much of Southern California. The loss of thousands of homes and the evacuation of hundreds of thousands pale any technology angle into virtual...

Tags: Web, Broadband, Video, CNN, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Adobe pushes foward on enabling RIA ecosystem with Flex 3, Adobe AIR betas

The world of rich Internet applications RIA got a little richer on Monday when Adobe Systems released the beta versions of Flex 3 and the Flex SDK with enhanced features for developers. The beta versions are in place of the alpha release, which was...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Beta, AIR Beta, Buzzword, Microsoft Obviously, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-02

When it comes to Rich Internet Apps (RIAs), is Adobe winning a one-horse race?

With all due respect to Microsoft's Silverlight and Sun's Java (well, JavaFX) -- both of which are looking to capitalize on the rising interest in Rich Internet Applications (RIAs -- basically Web sites that far surpass the capabilities HTML, Dynamic HTML, and even AJAX in terms of the richness and...

Tags: Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Platform, Video, H.264, AIR, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-01

What you see is what you publish

Adobe's acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity and its Buzzword online word processor brings Adobe into direct competition with Microsoft and Google in the Office 2.0 space (or as Scoble sensibly retitles it, Work 2.0). But much more more significant in my view is what Buzzword tells us about the nature of...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Application, Document, Google Docs, Microsoft Corp., Buzzword, Flash, Adobe Share, What-you-see-is-what-you-publish, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Adobe brings Buzzword into the fold

Adobe is adding to its applications portfolio with the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity's word processor, Buzzword see previous coverage. Adobe was an investor in Virtual Ubiquity, which is a marquee application based on the company's Flash and will run on Adobe's AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime OS-independent Web platform....

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Productivity, Word Processors, Peer To Peer (P2P), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Software, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-30

Adobe acquires Buzzword, moves into services

Adobe is announcing today that we have acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind Buzzword, the online word processor that has generated a fair amount of buzz no pun intended. Buzzword has been in private beta for a few months and in that time has been impressing a number of people....

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Adobe PDF, Buzzword, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-30

Flash Player 9 stats released, penetration at 90%+

Over the weekend it looks like we officially announced the penetration numbers for Flash Player 9 and right now we're at 90.3% for mature markets defined as US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan. Over 90% penetration in 12 months is pretty impressive and this version of the Flash Player is...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Penetration, JIT, Flex 2, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-04

The A to Z of Securing SSL VPNs

Virtual Private Networks allow companies to take advantage of the cost benefits and ubiquity of the internet by providing employees and business partners access to confidential corporate data, resources, and protected applications. VPNs protect the integrity of the data transmission, but do not strongly verify the identity of the end...

Tags: SSL VPN, CryptoCard, SSL, Authentication, Ssl/Tls, VPNs, Network Security, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Networking

White papers 2007-06-26