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Adobe Releases Media Player beta

Oct 1, 2007   10 am
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adobe_logo Adobe announces partnerships with content developers that it hopes will drive demand for Media Player, now scheduled to ship before July 2008.

Adobe announced Monday the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of a Web-based, multiuser word processor called Buzzword. Adobe also spun out the beta of a new service called Share that allows users to share and work on documents together online, as well as publish them to wikis or Web pages.

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Microsoft launches Windows Media Center Internet TV beta

Sep 27, 2007   12 pm
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mce-logo Enjoy your TV program without a TV tuner in Windows Media Center.

Just as we expected, Microsoft is getting official with its Windows Media Center Internet TV feature, which is set to go live in beta fashion tomorrow morning. According to Microsoft, US-based users of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate will soon be able to download a simple update.

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Adobe Flash Player Goes High-Def

Aug 21, 2007   10 pm
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flashplayer Adobe Tuesday announced an update to its Flash Player multimedia player, now in beta testing, that will support higher quality audio and video than previous versions via standard H.264 video — used in cable boxes and high definition DVDs — and High Efficiency AAC audio.

The update, code-named Moviestar, is a likely welcomed step toward better performance by Flash Player, especially in the wake of Microsoft(MSFT)’s announcement earlier this year that its Silverlight technology would support high definition by using the VC-1 codec used by Windows Media. Also supporting H.264 and High Efficiency AAC going forward are Adobe’s AIR rich Internet application runtime and Adobe Media Player, the company’s new desktop multimedia player.

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