On2 Technologies announced that it has released its new flagship hardware video decoder design, the Hantro(TM) 9190. The 9190 is the tenth generation of the Hantro line of decoders, which are deployed in hundreds of millions of chips worldwide. The 9190 design supports video playback u...

Apple is a “change” company. Look at their track record: Mac II, iMac, iPod and now the iPhone. What has not changed, however, is the view of Apple a company that delivers only consumer based products. Apple simply is not perceived as an Enterprise company. Apple is working to change t...

Creating reporting applications in AJAX is often more challenging than developing data entry CRUD applications. Reporters usually need to process lots of data, preferably on the client side to minimize the amount of information that goes through the wire. Reporters need to know how to ...

When I first published my observation that 'QuickTime is dead' in this publication, I never expected the response that article would garner. It ranged from, 'Dude, you are sooo wrong!' to 'Finally, we are free.' Earlier this year, Macromedia, as is so typical of the company, quietly dr...

'VitalStream is one of the only companies with the knowledge, experience and delivery platform to bring these diverse elements together into a full-service solution,' said Jack Waterman, CEO at VitalStream, as his company today introduced a single-source, full-service solution enabling...

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 sundry other question...

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 from On2 with VitalStre...

'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 streaming video integrat...

'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 announced today that On2...

On2 Technologies today announced it will unveil its newly-enhanced Flix line of Flash video encoding products for Flash developers during the world's premiere Flash developers venue - the 2005 Flashforward Conference - in New York City, July 6-8.

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Akamai Technologies, which already serves several gigabits per second of downloadable Flash content - including several hundreds of megabits per second of Flash video traffic - has in conjunction with Macromedia just announced the immediate availability of Akamai Streaming for use with...

Macromedia and long-time business partner Speedera are joining in a new venture that will use Speedera's high-quality, distributed on-demand network to broadcast live video streams of Macromedia Flash Video Streaming Service. Likely customers are enterprises and large organizations tha...

Responding to what the company says is pent-up demand by developers for using video on Web sites around the world, Macromedia is releasing a Flash Video Kit aimed anyone planning to add video to their sites.

Flash video is resonating with media companies, interactive agencies, and other small and large companies needing to deploy video on the Web, and Macromedia accordingly has set up a video gallery so anyone and everyone can experience the clips.