On BlackBerry 10, Cascades UI and Adobe AIR

By tim, on February 8th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Jeff Lejeune, RIM’s Advanced User Interface Director, here at BlackBerry DevCon Europe in Amsterdam.

He is part of the team responsible for the Cascades UI, a native code UI framework for the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 OS. One of the things he told me is that the Cascades name is actually being

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Adobe sheds more light on its LiveCycle plans–but what is happening to its Digital Enterprise Platform?

By tim, on January 22nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

When Adobe announced a shift in its business strategy in November, it was not clear what the implications were for the products that were no longer favoured. Since then bits of information have dripped out, presumably as the company itself works out its priorities. In December developers learned that Flash Catalyst would be discontinued

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Adobe: why the big business shift when financial results look so good?

By tim, on December 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe released its quarterly and full year results last week; I am catching up with this now after a week in China.

The company is doing well. Revenue is up by 11% year on year and it generated $1.5 billion in cash. It is buying back shares, usually a sign that a company has

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Adobe discontinues Flash Catalyst, clarifies Flex and Flash Builder futures

By tim, on December 19th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has told a group of Flex developers, invited to San Francisco for a special reconciliatory summit following the sudden announcement that Flex is moving to the Apache Foundation, that Flash Catalyst will be discontinued. Developer Fabien Nicollet was there and posts:

CS5.5 version of Catalyst is the latest version of Flash Catalyst. It

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Adobe favours HTML over Flex, retreats from its enterprise app platform

By tim, on November 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has stated that Flex, the xml-based language for developing applications that run on the Flash runtime (also known as AIR) will gradually give way to HTML 5:

In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development. We also know that, currently, Flex has clear benefits for large-scale

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What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with

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Adobe “shifting its business model”: more publishing, less programming

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced a shift in its business strategy, together with the loss of around 750 employees.

So what is changing? Adobe says it will be focusing on digital media and digital marketing, while investing less in “certain enterprise solution product lines.” In line with this strategy, Adobe acquired video advertising company auditude last

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Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash

By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have

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Adobe: no new features for open source BlazeDS data services

By tim, on October 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Damon Cooper, who runs the BlazeDS and Data Services team at Adobe, has posted about BlazeDS vs the paid-for Data Services.

It is a curious post, in that he simultaneously highlights new features coming in Data Services 4.6 while also giving a number of reasons not to use BlazeDS.

BlazeDS is the free

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