Companies like eBay, AOL, and NASDAQ are already using Adobe AIR to deliver engaging RIAs to their users' desktops. With Adobe AIR, you can: 
San Jose, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has demanded records from anti-piracy firm BayTSP as part of its defense against the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom (NYSE: VIA) over its YouTube site, MarketWatch reported. Google believes the documents will refute Viacom's argument that it is unable to police its own content on YouTube.
Barclay said Flash Player 10 is being made available at the same time as Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), which takes advantage of Flash Player 10 technology.
"We're providing unprecedented creative control for developers and designers," with Flash Player 10, Barclay said. In addition, he said the new release is available immediately on Windows, Mac and Linux, including new support for Ubuntu 7 and 8. "Linux is a first-class citizen for us," he said.
Barclay said users can take advantage of the 3-D capabilities through easy-to-use APIs and with an enhanced drawing API.
"Another major improvement is the ability to create your own effects with Adobe Pixel Bender, which can be applied to content live to do things that up to now could only be done on the desktop," Barclay said. The Adobe Pixel Bender also features a multi-threaded calculation engine that can be used for other purposes.
Indeed, Adobe Flash Player 10 extends the expressive capabilities of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product line with new levels of Flash technology integration to streamline collaboration and enhance the design/develop workflow, Adobe officials said.
Users can create custom filters and effects with Adobe Pixel Bender, which is the same technology behind many filters and special effects in Adobe After Effects CS4 software. Developers targeting Adobe Flash Player 10 can use these filters, blend modes and fills to animate effects or change the effect on rich media content at runtime. Flash Player 10 also enables new capabilities and performance improvements in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. This includes easy-to-use 3-D effects that enable designers to design in 2-D and easily transform and animate in 3-D.
"Our clients expect innovation," said Tim Barber, partner and creative director for Odopod, a design studio and member of the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA). "With the improved visual performance and awesome new 3-D effects in Adobe Flash Player 10, we can now use Adobe Flash CS4 Professional to create cool Web experiences that were previously impossible. For us, this means fewer boundaries to the creative process."
product called Expression, which Microsoft gained when they bought out software development company Creature House, in 2003. window.google_render_aAcrylic contains a mixture of digital photo editing tools, vector-like drawing and natural painting tools. All features which have got some design professionalsWhether Acrylic makes it off the drawing board is yet to be seen. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are so established in the professional graphics market, that any new application had better be of a very superior nature. Especially now that the Adobe and Macromedia merger has gone ahead, making Adobe an even larger force in the graphics industry.
The Acrylic beta download is available from Microsoft's web site and is time limited until 1st October 2005. It is available only for Windows XP, although no word has been released as to whether there will be a Mac version in the final release - should there be one.
This is an interesting move for Microsoft, which has rarely made serious attempts to gain inroads into the professional design market. It's previous graphics tools being very much based on the home user market. However, Microsoft has also been working on a new digital document management system, called Metro, as a possible contender to PostScript and the PDF file format.
However, Metro won't be available until their next operating system update, Longhorn, is released. Metro will also require printer manufacturers to rewrite driver software. PostScript is also so deeply ingrained in the design, print and publishing industry, that any new technology would have to offer some very special features.
With Macromedia now safely under Adobe's control, perhaps we have found the new counterbalance for the design software industry?
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-By Anthony CrupiSpongeBob’s reign of error ended on a high note Monday night as Nickelodeon’s poriferan protagonist drew 7.7 million viewers with his new half-hour special, SpongeBob SquarePants’ “WhoBob WhatPants?”According to Nielsen Media Research data, the Oct. 13 SpongeBob special averaged 4.1 million kids 2-11, 2.7 million kids 6-11 and 2.3 million ‘tweens 9-14.On the night, the WhoBob episode was TV’s most-watched program among the three demos. The special also was ad-supported cable’s number-one entertainment show in terms of its overall delivery.The antic episode was notable for the sheer amount of mayhem perpetrated by the aquatic hero, who in the first five minutes alone, destroys a birthday cake, fries a wad of his boss’ hard-won cash and shatters his snail pal Gary’s shell with an overexuberant hug. While SpongeBob was busy alienating the rest of Bikini Bottom, the net launched a new WhoBob WhatPants? game on Nick.com. The game generated 2.6 million plays, ranking as the number-one game on the site since its launch.
Google released two announcements on Thursday that further advance the company's goals toward being a power player in television advertising in addition to the Web.
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CS4 Design PremiumThe top range for graphic designers, which includes print design software, as well as web and mobile design tools.
Creative software included comprises of InDesign, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4 and Version Cue CS4.
Includes most of the above print-based graphic design software, but excludes the web design tools of Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web PremiumComprises of tools for the design and development of web sites, interactive and user-interfaces, mobile device content and digital presentations. Software applications include; Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat 9 Pro, Soundbooth CS4 and Contribute.
Similar to above, but lacks some of the more professional design, graphics and audio tools. Adobe CS4 Web Standard does not include Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat Pro or Soundbooth.
The creative production suite for designers and editors who work with video graphics, audio and interactive design media. As well as some of the previously mentioned graphics software tools, Adobe Production Premium CS4 includes digital video editing and post-production tools such as Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, OnLocation and Encore.
The Master Collection is, as the title suggests, the top of the range Creative Suite bundle and includes most of Adobe's new design and development software tools, print, web, video, sound and multi-media.
The Adobe CS4 range is scheduled to ship in October 2008. Adobe has also announced education curriculum and licensing programs for students and teachers.
The iPhone dynasty - with an amazing near 10 million phones now in the hands of consumers - is about to be challenged like never before by two new touch screen phones: The T-Moble G1 coming Oct. 22, and the BlackBerry Storm, to be sold exclusively by Verizon at a still-undisclosed date this fall. Both are brilliant smartphones that just may reach the genius status claimed by the iPhone. Both have touch screens, location detection, lots of powerful applications and long lists of features that both rival and beat the iPhone.
Yet both will be introduced at a time when consumers are reeling from the nation's economic collapse and reacting by tightening their purse strings. Consumer spending on new tech toys is taking a huge hit and these are perilous times to introduce anything new.
The BlackBerry Storm for Verizon does away with the familiar BlackBerry physical keyboard in favor of a glass touch screen like the iPhone. But unlike the iPhone, the Storm provides tactile feedback. When you push a letter on the virtual keypad, springs beneath the glass make it noticeable, just as if you were pushing a real key.
The storm also has a higher-quality 3.2-megapixel camera that also records video, compared to the 2.0 still-only iPhone camera.
BlackBerry is also working furiously on getting more applications for the phone, though it lacks a central store like the iPhone.
But because of the huge BlackBerry business base, the Storm is going to find a ready and loyal audience. And having the Verizon EV-DO network - vastly superior in coverage and performance than the often overwhelmed AT&T network used by the iPhone - the Storm will provide great e-mail and Web browsing.
The Storm will come with 1 GB of on-board memory storage and a microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports up to 16 GB of additional storage. The iPhone comes with up to 16 GB of built-in, non-removable or expandable storage.
The Storm also has a removable and replaceable battery. The iPhone battery can't be removed by the user.
Verizon hasn't said how much it will cost or when the Storm will be available, only sometime this fall.
That's because it probably wants to get all the hype out of the way for T-Mobile's coming T-Mobile G1, the first phone to work on the much anticipated Google open-source Android operating system. It was shown off last month and has had so much hype surrounding it that T-Mobile says it has sold out of preorders.
No figures have been released on how many preorders have been received but HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer of the G1 handset, predicts that T-Mobile will sell 600,000 to 700,000 units through the end of the year and as many as 2 million by the end of 2009.
It's a consumer-oriented phone that will be able to download music from Amazon.com, access all the social networking sites, instant messaging and texting services and the various Google features like Gmail, YouTube, Maps and documents.
Here's a video of the T-Mobile G1 from MobileBurn.com taken at last month's introduction show-and-tell in New York.
