Macromedia and Premiere Global Services today announced a strategic partnership for a new, integrated teleconferencing service with Macromedia Breeze (Version 5 released today).

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Tom Online (TOMO) has announced that Cisco Systems and Macromedia will acquire strategic share interests in Indiagames Ltd, a publisher of mobile games majority owned by Tom Online.

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Macromedia has teamed with Virtual University Enterprise (VUE) to offer the Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Exam worldwide at any one of the more than 3,000 worldwide testing facilities.

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Close collaboration yields rich, intuitive business applications that increase productivity, reduce training costs, and extend use of existing software investments.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

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The MAX 2005 conference is scheduled for October 16-19 in Anaheim, and Macromedia is looking for a few good speakers. Interested individuals can apply here.

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“It’s time again for another mobile Flash contest where you get to roll up your sleeves and show the world your Flash developer skills. This time it’s all about Pocket PCs and what you can do with some creativity and Flash. As a developer you may have created already or want to create some really cool Flash content for Pocket PCs, and now you have a chance to win some great prizes for your efforts.”

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Online video advertising solutions company EyeWonder, Inc. announced a partnership with Macromedia, Inc.

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Macromedia is flavoring its next-generation Web publishing platform with a heavy dose of blog-friendly software.

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Chris Hock gave an interview to the MX Developer’s Journal about Flash video.

Delivering options are discussed, the future, the team behind Flash video and some sucess stories with Flash Video.

Take a look at it.

Don´t know what happen this morning but all the posts from Macromedia foruns dissapear from my newsreader (Outlook Express).

At first i thought that it was a problem from my newsreader, but it seems that i wasn´t the only one with this problem.

Macromedia and Google foruns are working great this seems to happen only at newsreaders.

Does anyone else notice this problem?

Samsung Electronics will use Macromedia Flash Lite 1.1 to deliver enhanced graphical user interfaces and richer interactive experiences to Samsung mobile phone users.

” The first Samsung handset enhanced with Flash Lite is available in Korea. Subsequent Samsung handsets with Flash Lite 1.1 will be deployed to Europe and the U.S.”

You may find more details at CMPNetAsia.

Two online live events will allow you to have your questions answered directly by the Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 Pro product team…

Events:

Getting started with Flash MX Professional 2004
(March 15, 1:00 pm EST and March 29, 1:00 pm EST)

- Learn how to create rich interactive experiences faster with new screens-based authoring.
- Find out how to enrich your applications with live data.
- Discover how to deliver truly immersive experiences by incorporating professional-quality video.

Adding Interactivity to Flash with ActionScript
(March 15, 3:00 pm EST)

- Get the basics of ActionScript 2.0 so you can bring your Flash content to life.
- See how to add simple interactivity or build full-blown applications with this Java-based scripting language.

Register here:

Enrollment is limited. “Adding Interactivity to Flash with ActionScript” session is sold out but it might be recorded so that anyone can watch it later.

If someone knows if this sessions will be recorded or not please contact me or leave here a comment.

Long time ago i didn´t saw any Macromedia decision that caused so many discussion. I´m not going to say here if this is good or bad, i believe it´s still soon to say that.

The best is that this matter is being discussed anywhere that even a petition was created against the yahoo plug-in in the Flash Player….The target of the petition is the Macromedia Management Team and it has now 390 signatures…

If you want to sign the petition or just take a look click me.

My opinion is that this isn´t so bad has it looks. There are many other´s companies that do this a long time ago and we still install their plug-ins. You have the option to install it or not. It´s a decision that you may take…

Sincerely i do believe Macromedia already won something with this. Everyone that are protesting is making that victory bigger and bigger. It´s like if they don´t care if you talk good or bad about them. They just want us to talk….

Macromedia has release a new version of ColdFusion (ColdFusion MX 7). Take a tour here.

There is also another presentation about the new features of this version. Take a look.