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We’re tremendously excited to announce that our latest version of Adobe Connect Mobile, version 2.0, is now available for iOS and Android devices!

With the realities of today’s business environments where employees and customers are on the move worldwide, it’s not practical to expect that opportunities to collaborate or train only arise while in the office or at a desk. An effective web conferencing solution needs to provide users with the flexibility to not just participate in meetings, but to fully host, collaborate, and drive meetings from their mobile device.  It needs to enable trainers to not just provide learner access from any device, but also deliver that training from a mobile device.

With this in mind, we bring you Adobe Connect Mobile 2.0, offering meeting hosts and participants complete confidence to engage in web meetings, webinars, and virtual classrooms on the move using iOS or Android devices. We’ve extended many of the capabilities of previous releases with powerful new features, particularly on tablets. For example:

Complete meeting administration

In addition to existing hosting controls (begin/end meetings, manage attendance, manage attendee roles – Host, Presenter, or Participant, etc.), hosts can now fully control meeting recordings, audio conferencing, and video.

Share content from the cloud or device

Share presentations, videos, images and other content stored in your library in the cloud; in the image library; or on the device drive* itself (*Android).

Enhanced presentation controls and interactivity

In addition to existing presentation controls (presenting content, advancing slides, taking shared notes, running polls, etc.), hosts can now whiteboard with the tip of a finger, change layouts, and foster interaction with a range of emoticons.

Adobe Connect Mobile 2.0 is now available for free download on iTunes Preview here, and the Google Play Store here.

The app supports the following devices and operating systems:

Apple:

-               Devices: iPad, iPad2, iPad3; iPhone 4 and 4 S, iPod touch (3rd generation minimum recommended)

-               Supported OS versions: iOS 4.3.x, 5.x, or 6.x (5.x or higher recommended)

Android:

-               Devices: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy Tab (10.1), ASUS Transformer, Samsung Galaxy Tab (7”) , Motorola Xoom, Motorola Xoom 2.

-               Supported OS versions:  2.2 and higher.

-               AIR Runtime required: 3.2 or higher

Adobe Connect Mobile 2.0 is not yet available for BlackBerry Playbook, but please stay tuned for updates.  Our 1.7.5 version continues to be available here in BlackBerry App World.

For more information on Adobe Connect Mobile visit our Adobe Connect Mobile User Forum on connectusers.com. We look forward to your thoughts—in comments, on Twitter @AdobeConnect, and on our mobile user forum.

Cheers and enjoy,

Randah McKinnie, Principal Product Manager

by Guillaume Privat, Director, Adobe Connect

Two months ago, I made a post to this blog introducing the next major release of Adobe Connect and Adobe Connect Mobile. Today, I couldn’t be happier to announce that we’ve reached a major milestone – Adobe Connect 9 is now generally available.

Adobe Connect 9 brings with it some incredible new features to help our customers create exceptional events.

We’ve worked with the Adobe CQ team to make it incredibly easy to create gorgeous micro-sites to promote and register participants for your events. We’ve worked with the Adobe SiteCatalyst team to make sure you can measure virtually every aspect of your webinar and optimize future events and marketing campaigns.

You’ll see enhancements in every part of the product. A new Engagement Dashboard to help customers measure engagement in real-time, a new feature to highlight active speakers, new editing capabilities that enable you to anonymize and enhance recordings, as well as the ability to incorporate SCORM content in your training curriculums.

There’s too much to list in this blog post, but you can find out more here: http://www.connectusers.com/community/monthly_topic/archive/2012/06/adobe_connect_9/

Now that we’ve gone live, we’ll be upgrading customers with hosted deployments in a phased manner around the globe, starting today and continuing through the end of 2012.  If you have a hosted deployment and want to check your upgrade date, you may do so here by entering your account url into the widget in the upper-right of the page.

Current customers with on-premise deployments who are eligible for upgrades will receive an email from us in the coming seven to 10 days with details on how to access the upgrade.

If you aren’t already an Adobe Connect customer, we encourage you to learn more on our website and take a test drive by signing up for a free, 30-day trial, which will be updated to Adobe Connect 9 later today.

In addition, stay tuned for our release of Adobe Connect Mobile 2.0, coming very soon.  Adobe Connect Mobile 2.0 gives meeting hosts even more capabilities; enabling them to manage virtually every aspect of their Adobe Connect room from their mobile device.  It allows for device-to-device collaboration, eliminating the need for a PC altogether.

We are exceptionally proud of the quality of this release and we know you’ll feel the same way as you begin using it. Today truly marks a major milestone for Adobe Connect, but there’s no time to slow down now. We’ve already begun innovating on the *next* version.