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News from the Zend/PHP conference....

Zend Technologies yesterday announced a collaboration with Adobe to bring together the flexibility, productivity and enterprise reliability of Zend’s PHP technologies with the user experience benefits of Adobe Flex. The two companies will deliver technologies, content and services to make it easy for enterprise developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Flex on the client and PHP on the server. These RIAs are easier to use, speed real-time decision-making and increase employee productivity.

For more info, see here.  If you would like to talk to Abobe about this announcement email me here, if you would like to talk to Zend, then email Brad here

Posted by Timothy Brook at 7:54 PM | Permalink

I found out today that Michael Selwyn, my friend and Adobe's AR contractor in France, passed away late last week.

I first meet Michael a few years ago when he was the analyst relations lead at Firefly.  He later struck out on his own, and carried on doing great work for Adobe in France as an independent AR contractor.

Michael was a great AR pro, smart, incredibly nice and diligent. I know he'll be greatly missed.

R.I.P. Michael

Posted by Timothy Brook at 9:14 PM | Permalink

Evening sports-fans...

Now anyone would think reading the last few entries to this blog that I am big on watching sport!  Anyone who knows me would know that's not really true - although I did just watch the final of the US Open, live, on-line, via Flash.

Anyway, little news round-up from the last few days....

Today, Adobe announced that DIRECTV is powering its next-generation NFL Sunday Ticket SUPERCAST service for SuperFan customers on the Web with Adobe Flash technology and Adobe AIR software. DIRECTTV customers can stream live NFL games, DIRECTV’s Red Zone Channel and up-to-the-minute scores and statistics in the browser using the free Adobe Flash Player. In addition, DIRECTV is also providing SUPERCAST as a downloadable AIR application. You can read all about it here.

(American) Football fans without access to DIRECTV aren’t left out in the cold however.  Late last week, Adobe announced a partnership with The National Football League (NFL) to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night Football games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com using Adobe Flash technology. Again, read all about it here.

Of course, as a Brit I have not the slightest comprehension about American Football, so I'll finish off with a bit more general technology! In just 6-months since its release, we announced today that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe AIR. I'm sure you all have your favourites.  Mine is a dead-heat between Tweetdeck and Keeley!

Anyway, to read more about all the other great AIR applications available, read the press release here, or check some of them out here.

Posted by Timothy Brook at 12:42 AM | Permalink