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MXDJ News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the world of software design and development and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for MX developers.
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Max 2005 – Flex 2
Announcement: Macromedia
& Mercury Interactive
Team Up By Adobe News Desk 'Macromedia is committed
to providing
best-of-class technology
for building more
effective end-user
experiences,' said
Macromedia's general
manager David Mendels, as
Macromedia and Mercury
Interactive Corporation
today here at MAX 2005 in
Anaheim, CA, announced an... Oct. 17, 2005 12:30 PM Reads: 13,187 Replies: 1 | MAX 2005 –
lynda.com Ships 5 New
Video-Based Tutorials for
Macromedia Studio 8 By Adobe News Desk lynda.com, an
award-winning provider of
educational materials,
has announced that it is
now shipping five new
video-based tutorials
covering Macromedia's
Studio 8 release. Oct. 17, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 13,641 Replies: 1 | MAX 2005 – New
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Extension Released by
Early Impact By Adobe News Desk A new 'Insert ProductCart
Code' Extension giving
Dreamweaver users access
to even more tools to
create a professional
interface for their
ProductCart stores has
been released at MAX 2005
by Early Impact, an
ecommerce software
development company. Oct. 17, 2005 07:45 AM Reads: 12,914 Replies: 1 | MAX 2005 –
Macromedia Kick-Starts
Macromedia Consulting
Europe; Acquires
iteration::two By Adobe News Desk With a definitive share
purchase agreement,
Macromedia has acquired
Scotland-based
iteration::two, which
will now become the
enterprise Rich Internet
Application practice of
Macromedia Consulting
EMEA - helping to ensure
that strategic clients
and partners are
s... Oct. 16, 2005 12:45 PM Reads: 13,841 Replies: 2 | Macromedia Studio 8 From
The Inside: Exclusive
Q&As With The Studio 8
Team By Adobe News Desk  Why is FreeHand not part
of Studio 8? What do
productivity tools
Contribute 3 and
FlashPaper 2 add? What
about Flex? Why has the
product name changed from
Studio MX 2004? What are
the new video features in
Studio 8? How about the
role of Flash Player 8?
These, and... Oct. 15, 2005 04:45 PM Reads: 33,926 Replies: 2 | On2 Technologies and
VitalStream Team Up For
Flash Video Delivery By Adobe News Desk On2 Technologies, Inc.,
and VitalStream, a
streaming media solutions
provider and
international content
delivery network,
announced that they have
partnered to create a
single-source solution
combining powerful, high
quality Macromedia Flash
Video encoding tools f... Oct. 12, 2005 11:45 PM Reads: 14,072 | Macromedia's "Zorn"
Becomes Flex Builder 2 By Adobe News Desk Macromedia today
announced Flex Builder 2,
previously code-named
'Zorn.' Flex Builder 2
can incorporate rich
media content from the
recently released
Macromedia Flash
Professional 8, the
leading authoring tool
for creating rich
interactive content. Flex
Builder ... Oct. 6, 2005 07:30 AM Reads: 10,777 | Flash Player Is Revved to
Version 8.5; Flex 2
Product Line Unveiled By Adobe News Desk Flash Player 8.5,
announced by Macromedia
today, adds industrial
strength programming
power on top of the
expressiveness already
introduced in Flash
Player 8, creating what
the company calls 'a
state-of-the-art,
cross-platform runtime.'
It includes a new virtual
... Oct. 6, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 10,891 | New Macromedia-Adobe
Product Cluster Due First
Half of 2006, Says
Research Firm By Adobe News Desk  According to research
firm Piper Jaffray, Adobe
will launch a software
bundle of major
Macromedia and Adobe
products in the first
half of 2006, assuming
the merger between the
companies closes as
planned in October. Oct. 4, 2005 06:15 AM Reads: 15,119 | Studio 8: The Early
Response By Adobe News Desk  Designers and developers
worldwide couldn't wait
to take the Studio 8 beta
version for a spin. We
look at a selection of
what's been written so
far in the UK about the
Beta of the historic
release. Oct. 2, 2005 03:45 AM Reads: 13,839 | Macromedia ColdFusion MX
7 Offers Tiger Version By Adobe News Desk Macromedia, Inc.
announced the
availability of the
Macromedia ColdFusion MX
7 Updater, a free,
incremental release
adding new platform
support for Mac OS X 10.4
'Tiger' and Mac OS X
Server 10.4 'Tiger,' plus
updated support for
Oracle 10g, Red Hat Linux
AS 4, So... Sep. 29, 2005 07:00 AM Reads: 7,732 Replies: 1 | Macromedia Adds
Multipoint Voice
Conferencing Engine to
Breeze 5 By Adobe News Desk Macromedia has announced
that the award-winning
voice products of
embedded voice
communications provider
SPIRIT DSP have been
integrated into
Macromedia Breeze 5,
ensuring superior voice
quality for the web
conferencing
communications and
collaboration solution ... Sep. 26, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 6,108 | The MX Blogosphere By Adobe News Desk  Don't forget that you can
blog yourself now, too,
under the MXDJ domain -
just follow the
blog-n-play link from
http://mxdj.sys-con.com. Sep. 24, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 22,127 | Macromedia Breeze
Supports VOIP Technology By Adobe News Desk Macromedia has announced
that the award-winning
voice products of
embedded voice
communications provider
Spirit DSP have been
integrated into
Macromedia Breeze 5,
ensuring superior voice
quality for the web
conferencing
communications and
collaboration solution ... Sep. 23, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 14,885 Replies: 1 | lynda.com Offers
Video-Based Studio 8
Training By Adobe News Desk lynda.com has announced
the immediate
availability of seven new
video-based training
titles that will help
users learn Macromedia
Studio 8, to coincide
with Macromedia's Studio
8 release. Sep. 22, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 5,229 Replies: 1 | Sorenson Squeeze 4.2
Video Compression
Software Launched By Adobe News Desk Sorenson Media announced
the immediate
availability of Sorenson
Squeeze 4.2 Compression
Suite for Windows and
Sorenson Squeeze 4.2 for
Macromedia Flash for
Windows. Sorenson Squeeze
4.2 continues in the
tradition of the
company's highly
successful video encoding... Sep. 22, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 6,057 Replies: 1 | Cisco + Macromedia =
Flash-Based Web
Conferencing Worldwide By Adobe News Desk 'Partnering with Cisco
will enable us to further
accelerate the momentum
we've generated for
Breeze web conferencing
and to address the
growing demand for
integrated communications
solutions,' said Stephen
Elop, president and chief
executive officer,
Macromedia, a... Sep. 20, 2005 02:45 AM Reads: 6,606 | Building Flash Websites
Without Flash
Programming? By Adobe News Desk A4Desk lets users with
all levels of experience
create professional
quality Flash websites,
CD presentations, and
multimedia resumes in
minutes, without any
programming experience or
knowledge of Flash
design, the company says,
with a WYSIWYG interface
that's easy... Sep. 14, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 6,022 Replies: 2 | InterAKT offers 93
Server-Side Features With
Dreamweaver 8 Upgrade By Adobe News Desk InterAKT offers for each
Dreamweaver 8 purchase or
upgrade originating from
the company web site, a
$129-value ImpAKT license
for free. Sep. 14, 2005 06:00 AM Reads: 5,687 Replies: 1 | IPTV Subscriber User
Interface SDK for
Macromedia Flash
Introduced by Orca By Adobe News Desk 'With fierce competition
to provide profitable,
addictive TV services,
IPTV operators are
challenged to offer a
differentiated,
extraordinary TV
experience,' said Yosi
Glick, VP Marketing and
Business Development,
Orca Interactive, as Orca
on Friday introduced a
... Sep. 11, 2005 09:30 AM Reads: 8,817 | New Tool from WebAssist
Generates Entire Sites in
Seconds By Adobe News Desk WebAssist announced the
release of WA SiteAssist,
a professional-strength
website creator
integrated into
Macromedia Dreamweaver.
The WA SiteAssist site
navigation links to all
site pages and can easily
be customized and
expanded. Sep. 9, 2005 05:00 AM Reads: 9,483 Replies: 1 | Macromedia Announces
Flash Media Server 2 -
The Foundation for
Delivering Flash Video By Adobe News Desk  'The Flash Platform is
the best way to deliver
web video and rich media
applications to the
widest audience on the
Internet,' said Tom Hale,
Macromedia's SVP and
general manager, as
Macromedia today
announced Flash Media
Server 2 in Amsterdam,
Netherlands. 'For
... Sep. 8, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 19,375 Replies: 3 | Macromedia and HP Team Up
for PDA Services By Adobe News Desk Macromedia and HP will
enable carriers, network
equipment providers, and
telecommunication ISVs to
streamline the creation
of new communications,
messaging, and
collaboration solutions,
and securely deploy rich
multimedia services that
leverage the ubiquity of
Mac... Sep. 7, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 9,042 Replies: 2 | Seapine's SCM 4.0 Tool
for Managing Software
Change By Adobe News Desk  Seapine Software has
announced the immediate
availability of Surround
SCM 4.0, a cross-platform
software change
management (SCM) tool. Sep. 6, 2005 07:45 AM Reads: 5,026 | Macromedia Flash Comes to
the HP Service Delivery
Platform; HP Will Also
Resell Breeze and Flex By Adobe News Desk 'We're joining forces
with HP because of its
deep telecom expertise ?
and its SDP, which is the
industry's most robust,
standards-based
service-oriented
architecture,' said Eric
Weiss, vice president of
telecommunications
solutions, Macromedia, as
Macromedia and H... Sep. 6, 2005 02:00 AM Reads: 7,382 | Former Agilent Chairman
Joins Adobe Board of
Directors By Adobe News Desk 'I am very pleased to
join Adobe's board. I
have great respect for
this company and its
innovative products, and
look forward to working
with the board and
management team,' said
Ned Barnholt, retired
chairman, president and
chief executive officer
of Agilent Tech... Sep. 5, 2005 01:15 AM Reads: 11,506 Replies: 1 | InterAKT Announces the
Release of MX Calendar
and MX CSV Import-Export By Adobe News Desk InterAKT Online announced
today the release of two
new products, MX Calendar
and MX CSV Import-Export.
These new InterAKT tools
add extra power to
Dreamweaver, getting
dynamic web development
to new levels of
performance. Aug. 29, 2005 06:00 PM Reads: 5,841 | Adobe-Macromedia Deal
Gets Green Light From All
Shareholders By Adobe News Desk  Adobe Systems and
Macromedia have announced
that the stockholders of
each company have now
voted in favor of Adobe's
proposed acquisition of
Macromedia at their
respective special
stockholder meetings,
held August 24. Aug. 29, 2005 05:00 AM Reads: 18,186 | VitalStream Announces
Support For Macromedia
Flash Player 8 By Adobe News Desk  VitalStream worked
closely with Macromedia
to develop the Macromedia
Flash Video Streaming
Service, powered by
VitalStream, leading the
market as the first
Macromedia partner to
offer streaming services
for Flash Video. As the
founding member of the
Macromedia Fla... Aug. 26, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 12,428 Replies: 1 | VitalStream Announces
Flash Player 8 Support By Adobe News Desk VitalStream worked
closely with Macromedia
to develop the Macromedia
Flash Video Streaming
Service, powered by
VitalStream, leading the
market as the first
Macromedia partner to
offer streaming services
for Flash Video. Aug. 24, 2005 01:00 AM Reads: 5,803 Replies: 1 | Macromedia Announces
Studio 8 Launch Seminars By Adobe News Desk Quite simply, '8' is the
biggest release in Studio
history. And as an
important member of the
Macromedia community, we
wanted to give you an
opportunity to see it,
first-hand. We'll
demonstrate Studio 8's
exciting new features,
many of which were
developed based o... Aug. 17, 2005 05:00 PM Reads: 8,766 | SYS-CON Media Presents
"The 8 Issue" of MXDJ By Adobe News Desk  'The biggest software
release in the history of
Macromedia,' namely
Studio 8 - launched
yesterday live on
SYS-CON.TV - is the topic
of a very special August
issue of MX Developer's
Journal, SYS-CON's
world-beating magazine
for Macromedia web
designers, developers,... Aug. 17, 2005 09:30 AM Reads: 19,357 Replies: 5 | Adobe Systems adquiere a
su rival Macromedia By Adobe News Desk Adobe Systems
Incorporated firmó un
acuerdo definitivo para
la compra de Macromedia
en una transacción de
acciones valuada en 3.400
millones de dólares. Bajo
los términos del acuerdo
?que ya fue aprobado por
los Directorios de ambas
compañías? los
accionistas de M... Aug. 14, 2005 11:45 AM Reads: 8,458 Replies: 1 | Your Content Is Good,
Your ABUSE of Flash Is
Horrible! By Adobe News Desk  If Paris Hilton designed
websites, it is reflected
in the usability on your
site. I have seen many
good websites and several
bad ones. Yours is the
first to be so horrific
that I would deem it a
bio hazard and declare it
be approached only if
wearing a decontaminati... Aug. 12, 2005 05:15 AM Reads: 19,657 Replies: 13 | The MX Blogosphere By Adobe News Desk  Don't forget that you can
blog yourself now, too,
under the MXDJ domain -
just follow the
blog-n-play link from
http://mxdj.sys-con.com. Aug. 11, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 11,176 | Buy a Dreamweaver 8
Upgrade, Get an ImpAKT
License At No Cost By Adobe News Desk Acknowledging the
necessity to get the
latest development tools
available, InterAKT is
offering, for each
Dreamweaver 8 purchase or
upgrade originating from
the InterAKT web site, a
$129-worth ImpAKT license
for free. Aug. 9, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 15,821 Replies: 1 | Flix 8 for Macromedia
Flash 8: On2 Technologies
Launches Incentive
Program By Adobe News Desk 'We believe the launch of
Flash Player 8 is one of
the most important
developments in rich
media design and delivery
on the Internet. And our
customers are telling us
the same thing,' said
Douglas McIntyre,
chairman, president and
CEO of On2 Technologies,
as he an... Aug. 9, 2005 09:30 AM Reads: 17,344 Replies: 1 | Macromedia Unveils Studio
8: "A Huge Leap Forward,"
Says CEO Stephen Elop By Adobe News Desk  Containing workflow
enhancements, new
products, and feature
firsts, Macromedia
yesterday announced the
Macromedia Studio 8 suite
for web designers,
developers, video
professionals, and
graphic artists. Studio 8
enables the design,
development, and
maintainenance... Aug. 9, 2005 09:00 AM Reads: 20,088 Replies: 6 | Macromedia CFO Presents
at Technology Forum in
Colorado Today By Adobe News Desk Just one day after the
'biggest software launch
in Macromedia history,'
Betsey Nelson, the
company's executive vice
president and CFO,
Macromedia, will deliver
a presentation on behalf
of the company at the
Pacific Crest 2005
Technology Forum in
Colorado today. Th... Aug. 9, 2005 07:30 AM Reads: 5,369 | "Huge" New Dreamweaver
Release From Macromedia
Unveiled Today:
Dreamweaver 8 By Adobe News Desk  'Dreamweaver 8 not only
delivers tools and
workflow improvements
that help make users more
efficient, it also
supports the web's best
practices and is more
closely integrated with
the Studio 8 family and
the latest technologies,'
said David Mendels,
general manage... Aug. 8, 2005 10:15 PM Reads: 26,998 Replies: 2 |
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