Adobe announced a collaboration with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications.

Adobe has released a substantially enhanced BPM/RIA solution. While LiveCycle suite isn't new software, its popularity increased in June of 2007 when the entire suite started to run on the same J2EE server and the RIA components were introduced. Today, over 5,000 ...

TopQuadrant has announced the general availability of TopBraid Live 2.0, a semantic application deployment platform that simplifies the creation of web services to a 'click and connect' process. Users can connect data from RDF stores, relational databases, spreads...

Today, Adobe announced the immediate availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 beta as a free download from Adobe Labs. Adobe Flash Player 10 beta, code named 'Astro', builds on the capabilities of the world's most ubiquitous application runtime with new support for c...

Today, Adobe announced the Open Screen Project, supported by a group of industry leaders. The project is dedicated to driving rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

If you are evaluating technologies for your next rich Internet financial application, do not miss this one day event 'Flex on Wall Street' that will take place in New York City on April 18, 2008.

CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced the availability of Pronto! 2.0, the latest version of its powerful, yet lightweight Unified Communications user interface framework built with Adobe® Flex® 3, d...

Verb Exchange announced a deal with interface design specialist, Nitobi, to develop the desktop and web interfaces for Tabrio, a new way to stay in touch with anyone, anywhere. Verb Exchange and Nitobi will work together to enhance the Tabrio user experience, maki...

ILOG. a member of the OpenAjax Alliance, announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe Flex, ILOG Elixir, is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG Elixir, available now, was warmly received by the Adobe Flex community during its Beta period.

Question: What do AOL, eBay, NASDAQ, The New York Times Company, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's Nick.com, Sharp Corporation and others have in common? The answer is that've all launched pioneering Rich Internet Applications deployed on Adobe AIR, to coin...

The article is basically 'Flex rules, everything else drools'. It goes on and on about the good things about Flex, while giving only cursory coverage of Flex drawbacks. Meanwhile, it's just the opposite regarding the other technologies, going on and on about drawb...

Web application developers and designers often give up on building rich, interactive user interfaces because they lack the JavaScript skills to make it happen. AJAX development power tools - including Dreamweaver, Spry and off-the-shelf AJAX components - make it e...

Earth Live is an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to learn the world by engaging them with a more effective UI, so complex information such as climate change can be digestible by a regu...

ASP.NET AJAX is a natural candidate for RIA development under the .NET framework. However, there are other complementary or even alternative technologies that are worth your consideration. This session will start with a brief market overview and outline the pros a...

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET or experiment with such newcomers as AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, or JavaFX. While t...

This session will address issues to consider when selecting an AJAX toolkit and the most effective IDE for the implementation. It will identify the 30-40 UI components most commonly used in business and mission critical software applications that can be used as a ...

In our annual round-up of technology predictions, Yakov Fain - editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's Flex Developer's Journal - says 'Flash Player will remain the best deployment platform for rich Internet applications. While Microsoft is trying to come up with a compe...

It's hard to overestimate the importance of having a good logging facility when you develop distributed applications. Did the client's request reached the server-side component? What did the server send back? Add to this inability of using debuggers while processi...

Mozilla Labs announces 'a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur'.

RadView Software Ltd. has announced that its WebLOAD Professional has become a full-featured product to load test applications developed with Adobe Flex 2 software and the AMF3 protocol. WebLOAD's support for Adobe Flex covers all phases of load testing and enable...

Adobe has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity and its ground-breaking online word processor, Buzzword. The acquisition furthers Adobe's commitment to foster a vibrant ecosystem for rich Internet application (RIA) development that delivers bre...

Media distribution developer PassAlong Networks and Cynergy Systems, Inc., have announced a series of media products based on Adobe Flex technology. The partnership includes PassAlong's OnTour concert information widgets and the Speakerheart artist-controlled mu...

At Max 2007, Adobe has announced availability and the list of new features of the second public beta release of Flex 3 SDK and Flex Builder 3. Below is a quote of this announcement. 'Check out these important new features in Flex 3 beta 2

New packaging and pricing will be available for Adobe Flex 3 when it ships early in 2008. It'll become available in two editions: Adobe Flex Builder 3 Standard Edition and Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Edition.

Today is the first day of the MAX 2007 North America, the main Adobe event of the year. The conference was sold out - the registration has been closed at the mark of after 4300 attendees. Apparently, the conference organizers where caught by surprise - attendance ...

Adobe and BEA have announced partnership across four products. Under the terms of the agreement, BEA will bundle Adobe(R) Flex(TM) Builder(TM) 2 software with BEA Workshop(TM) Studio, empowering developers to rapidly build cross-platform RIAs that integrate with S...

AJAX developers brought Web 2.0 to the browser. Now they can leverage their JavaScript and HTML skills - as well as the IDEs they are familiar with and already use - to build the next generation of desktop applications that span platforms. Scott Fegette of Adobe w...

'The new Flex SDK was requested by several of our customers, to leverage Lightstreamer Server for both AJAX and Flash/Flex applications, and we are now glad to publicly release it,' said Alessandro Alinone, CTO of Lightstreamer, as the comapny released today a new...

The need to support off-line capabilities has driven some RIA providers back to the fat client platform. For example, Adobe AIR, Google Gears, and Slingshot are all examples of this trend. The fat client offers a lot of advantages over RIA technologies such as AJA...

A Real-World AJAX Project Presenting richly formatted or legacy documents in as part of a rich internet application can be challenging, particularly when there is a large volume of information to present. Using a real-world project as an example, this session will...

Reporting is one of the most important but complex to implementation aspects of enterprise AJAX applications. This session covers several major reporting challenges and will offer a solution to those challenges. It's not a trivial task to create an AJAX applicatio...

'This is great news as it means yet another excellent Flex resource,' blogged Rich Tretola on his 'Everything Flex' blog in response to the announcement by SYS-CON Media last week of the launch of Flex Developer's Journal as an online technical publication for d...

SYS-CON Media launched today its newest developer title, Flex Developer's Journal, (flex.sys-con.com), the first and only independent magazine serving Adobe Flex developers worldwide. Yakov Fain, the well-known RIA expert and the author of the best-selling book ...

Eclipse Foundation Executive Director Mike Milinkovich and Instantiations CEO Mike Taylor headed a live webinar produced by SYS-CON.TV in the Reuters television studio overlooking Times Square in New York. The topic was RPC, and the discussion was moderated by E...

'The world is changing,' Flex Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Yakov Fain told the audience at SYS-CON Events' Real-World Java Seminar in New York City today. 'Financial institutions are starting to hire Web designers.' The world of rich Internet applications h...

Farata Systems has announced the production release of ClearBI 1.0, a Web reporter and business intelligence engine for rich Internet applications. While ClearBI 1.0 is targeted for Adobe Flex and Java developers, the upcoming ClearBI 1.1 is a rich reporting comp...

AJAX developers brought Web 2.0 to the browser. Now they can leverage their JavaScript and HTML skills - as well as the IDEs they are familiar with and already use - to build the next generation of desktop applications that span platforms. Kevin Hoyt of Adobe will ...

Adobe's LiveCycle software is designed to allow some 60 Illinois state agencies and 3,800 counties, municipalities and school systems to automate the completing and processing of forms. The goal is for the state to increase convenience for citizens and reduce costs for itself.

The authors of the bestselling book 'RIA with Adobe Flex and Java' will teach a one of a kind workshop that is aimed at Java developers with no or limited experience in developing enterprise-grade J2EE application with Adobe Flex front end.

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection software. Adobe Production Premium CS3 is a comprehensive collection of integrated cross-platform post...