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Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News As we provide animation tools to bring static pages to life, there's always a danger of over-use in the same way we saw with Flash during its early days," said Microsoft's Smith. Along with IE8, the new versions of Silverlight and Expression Studio... [09 Mar 2008]
Steve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?
News Consumers demand a rich web experience on any device and platform and Flash delivers just that," the company said. Jobs said the full-blown PC version of Flash "performs too slow to be useful" on the iPhone and the mobile version, Flash Lite, "is... [06 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia
News The software giant is trying to lure web developers toward Silverlight - and away from Flash - to build rich internet applications or media-oriented websites. For people with compatible devices, it means they will be able to see content, notably... [04 Mar 2008]
Apple, open source and SaaS tipped to be tech future
News Also, with Vista, Microsoft has created an operating system that requires more hardware, while the trend for these devices are to use slower, more energy efficient processors, along with more limited capacity flash memory. [01 Feb 2008]
Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps
News Adobe, meanwhile, is set to announce it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up that has built a web-based word processor, called Buzzword, using Adobe's Flash and AIR technologies. Adobe is also introducing a service, code-named Share, that... [01 Oct 2007]
Adobe buys web word processor
News The technology underpinning these applications is Adobe's Flash Player and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), software that lets web applications run offline. Adobe invested in the company last year as part of a venture fund set up to promote... [01 Oct 2007]
Microsoft settles Eolas patent saga
News The suit concerned technology that lets web browsers call up separate applications or plug-ins such as Flash or Java within a web page. Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas Technologies, a start-up backed by the... [31 Aug 2007]
Adobe: 'We're not making Office killer'
News Adobe's Flash Player is widely used on the web and AIR lets web developers create desktop applications. There are other online productivity tools such as web-based presentation application SlideRocket that use Flash, Downey noted. [21 Aug 2007]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News It competes with Flash and other plug-ins that add interactivity to websites. Silverlight is a download for displaying media and interactive content in web pages. Ballmer said that the company is tackling disruptive technology changes head-on... [27 Jul 2007]
Adobe gets AIR-headed over web apps
News Adobe also plans to release the beta of Flex 3, its software development tool that can now be used for writing AIR applications in addition to Flash and HTML-based web applications. Like Adobe's Flash, Silverlight runs interactive web-based... [11 Jun 2007]
Vodafone touts web-page shrinking tech
News Because the process involves compressing the content to roughly a tenth of its original size, users will also experience much lower data usage and higher download speeds, the spokesperson said, while conceding that some Flash-heavy sites may still... [07 Jun 2007]
Google Gears up for offline web apps
News As part of the announcement, Google said Gears has been endorsed by the Mozilla Foundation, makers of the open source Firefox browser, as well as Flash developer Adobe Systems and Opera Software, which makes the Opera browser. [31 May 2007]
Malicious code getting harder to spot
News Increasingly the actual code, often JavaScript, used to attack PCs is hidden in Flash animations or scrambled so anyone who examines the source of a page can't easily identify it, said Jose Nazario, a senior software engineer at Arbor Networks, in... [19 Apr 2007]
Microsoft plotting to steal Adobe's thunder
News Like Flash, it has accompanying development tools for both designers and software developers. But Adobe's Flash Player has become the dominant choice for streaming video used by high-volume sites such as MySpace.com and YouTube. [16 Apr 2007]
More phishing attacks than infected emails
News More phishing sites are now using Flash content rather than HTML in an attempt to evade anti-phishing technology deployed in web browsers. However, Cluley warned this indicated a shift in infection methods towards web-based attacks, rather than a... [31 Jan 2007]
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