Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Multimedia tools and document authoring software vendor Adobe Systems has announced the availability of the Adobe Flex 2 product line and Adobe FlashPlayer 9.
The Flex 2 product line provides developers with a set of tools and technology for end-to-end development of web applications.
“We have always prided ourselves on being an innovative organization
and will continue to explore new technologies to further evolve our
online product,”said David Dean, vice president of software engineering
at WeightWatchers.com. “Compared to HTML development, we can create
richer, more dynamic user interfaces in Flex – in less time.”
Flash Player 9 provides a runtime environment for enterprise-ready rich
internet applications. According to Adobe, Flash Player 9 offers Flex
developers up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0
and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine..
Adobe Flex and Flash technology also enable partners to extend their
offerings. “SAP is continually working to enhance the user experience,
simplify the ways in which information workers access and use business
information, and enable SAP users to work within the environments and
interfaces where they are most comfortable. By offering robust
technology in Flex and Flash, Adobe is a key partner in these efforts,”
said Doug Merritt, executive vice president and general manager,
Product & Technology Group, SAP AG. “We are very excited to extend
the enhancements in Flash Player 9 to our xApp Analytics customers.
Adobe is providing a very rich, easy-to-use and familiar interface to
SAP xApp Analytics, further improving the SAP user experience while
leveraging the power of SAP applications.”
The Adobe Flex 2 product line is available now in English. The Adobe
Flex 2 SDK, which includes the Flex framework and command line
compiler, is available free of charge. Adobe Flex Builder 2 is
available for an estimated street price of US$499. Adobe Flex Builder 2
with Charting is available for an estimated street price of US$749.
Adobe Flex Data Services 2 Express, which includes a single full
production license for deploying applications on a single CPU, is
available free of charge. List pricing for Adobe Flex Data Services 2
is US$20,000 per CPU plus maintenance and support. Volume discounts and
custom pricing structures for ISV/OEM customers also are available.
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