Fumi Matsumoto, CTO of Flex ISV Allurent, outlined today at 'Real-World Flex' in New York City the technical and design challenges related to the development of a new platform for building RIA consumer shopping experiences, built on Flex and Flash technology.

'Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits.' That, according to 'Real-World Flex' speaker Jesse Randall Warden, was what greeted him when he arrived in New York City's Roosevelt Hotel this morning ready to give his own session at the event, a session ...

With its free features, such as the Flex SDK, Flex 2 uses Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player as its runtime, which is why Adobe can confidently predict millions of users and 1,000,000 developers. That, according to Flex Product Manager Eric Anderson, is the key to un...

Working, as he does uniquely well at conference after conference, with live demos and no offline safety-net, Adobe's senior technology evangelist Christophe Coenraets delivered his session 'How Flex Can Transform the User Experience on the Web' to an audience of...

'The browser is not really a good model for applications,' said David Mendels this morning at SYS-CON Events' inaugural 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar. Rich Internet Applications are the future of the Web, and cross-platform, powerful Flex 2 is right in the eye...

On Monday, August 14, IT Professionals from all over the world are set to converge in NYC at the first Real-World Flex Seminar. Focused on Flex, the revolutionary new application development platform from Adobe Systems, Real-World Flex promises to deliver an outst...

In his presentation at the SYS-CON Events 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar on Monday, August 14th, in The Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Jesse Warden - a Senior Consultant with Universal Mind, who specializes in Flex, Flash, & Flash Lite devel...

We need more developers on the Flash Platform and Flex 2 is just the framework and toolset to entice these people.' Aral Balkan, founder and director of UK-based Ariaware.

'Apollo,' the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the deskto...

WebAssist - whose partners include Adobe, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, and Affinity - today released the latest version, v3.0, of its best-selling SiteAssist program. SiteAssist 3.0 includes new professional-level designs that the company added, according to its Pres...

Adobe's new 'Apollo' product and strategy will be the focus of a session to be presented by Luis Polanco at the Real-World Flex Seminar, to be produced by SYS-CON Events at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 14. The Apollo session is just one of a diverse, ...

Adobe's David Mendels and Christophe Coenraets, Allurent CTO Fumi Matsumoto, Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden, ESRI's Mansour Raad, Mark Piller of themidnightcoders.com, Dr. Victor Rasputnis of Farata Systems, SYS-CON's Yakov Fain - all are due to converge August 1...

Adobe Labs has released the first update to the Spry framework for AJAX. Spry v.1.0 was initially released in the beginning of May.

SYS-CON publishing director Jeremy Geelan interviewed Adobe's Christophe Coenraets at the recent JavaOne 2006 Conference in San Francisco, noting that a 'tipping point' in the history of Flex has been reached with recent rapprochement between Java and Flex. Coenra...

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new sk...

Adobe today launches Flex 2, with a free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) aimed at equipping developers to build a new class of rich Internet applications with improved usability and effectiveness.

Details of this year's MAX, for those who have been wondering, are that it is being held October 23 - 26, 2006, at the Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Adobe will have over 90 different hands-on and workshop sessions presented by Adobe experts and other indus...

In late 2005 Adobe announced a goal at MAX 2005 of increasing the Flex development community from roughly five thousand then to over a million by around the year 2010. The bigger the community, the better is for developers; but how many are there? A new registry, ...

Though not listed either on the US Amazon site, nor on Barnes and Noble, the UK version of Amazon is this week already listing 'Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source' - the book that's due out August 31 from Jeff Tapper and his coauthors.

The JBoss Mail Server (JBMS) has been recently re-branded for its upcoming 1.0 release as 'JBoss Collaboration Server.' The web-based mail client component of the whole collaboration server package, says JBoss's Andy Oliver, is 'spellbinding.' The JBMS team used Flex 2.0 from Adobe.

The integration of Adobe® LiveCycle Policy Server software, Adobe print and scan technologies with Ricoh Document Solutions and its multifunction (MFP) and laser printer (LP) devices will transform the way knowledge workers convert paper processes into more secure...