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Flash Communication Server Hosting:  Adobe Flash Communication Server is a server-based platform for creating and deploying compelling, interactive web-based audio/video applications such as video on demand, live event broadcasts, webcam chat, and real-time collaboration applications.

Flash Communication Server hosting is provided  shared stand-alone by Firstserv - one of only a few companies worldwide to be featured on the Adobe Flash Communication Server hosting partners page. The web-based control panel allows you to monitor and manage your FCS MX applications. FTP access is also provided, which allows you to upload stream resources, manage applications, add/delete shared objects and access raw log files.  There is no need to switch from your current host. Your website can be hosted with your current hosting provider while the FCS MX hosting will be with Firstserv. All servers are hosted in our Docklands based data centre. Hosting supported by Adobe Advanced Certified Developers. For more go to http://www.firstserv.com/hostingServices/sharedHosting/flashCom/

Now you can create Flash Multimedia Presentation in Three Easy Steps: How? Like this: create a powerPoint Presentation, record an Audio narration, publish to Flash.  With PointeCast Publisher, you can create rich-media Flash presentations and interactive online training. You can add new interactive features to your presentations, including: Audio Narration: Record a narrative for your presentation and synchronize it with your slides and animations; Flash Movies: Easily add Flash graphics, movies, applications, and video to your PowerPoint slides; Quizzes & Surveys: Create interactive Flash quizzes and surveys, choosing from nine different question types; Table of Contents: Group slides under section headings for quick and easy navigation in the converted presentation. And that is not all - for more of this  check it out http://www.pointecast.com/products/publisher-overview.html.

Hostopia Licenses Advanced Templates to HostGator - this is fresh!! Hostopia, as you probably know, is a web hosting provider and  announces its initial licensing of website templates to the service provider market, focusing on large hosting providers with strong reseller networks.
Hostgator, a web hosting provider, has licensed Hostopia's full inventory of site templates for distribution to its customer base. The website templates licensed by Hostopia are fully compatible with development tools such as Namo WebEditor 2006 Suite, Adobe Photoshop 6+, Macromedia Flash MX+, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, FrontPage 2003+, or any other HTML editor. File formats supported include PSD, HTML, SWF and FLA as well as non-flash versions.

Sounds interesting so check out more at http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/hostopia--licenses-advanced-templates-to-hostgator_0207072780.htm

Flash Lite: Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and browsing, and customized user interfaces. Designers and developers now have a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and interactivity for content creation. Flash Lite has seen explosive adoption by OEMs, operators and developers in Japan and Asia, and is quickly growing worldwide. This growth is driven by the mature Flash authoring environment and rendering engine that delivers enhanced content and browsing, customized UI & a rich mobile experience across devices.Flash Lite is the Flash technology specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and browsing, and customized user interfaces. Designers and developers now have a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and interactivity for content creation. http://www.webknowhow.net/news/news/070108Flashstore.html

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Soon to come is Scorpio: as you probably figure it out, Scorpio is the code name for the planned next major release of ColdFusion. It was first mentioned publicly at the ColdFusion conference CFUNITED in 2005, and was discussed extensively at MAX 2006. Scorpio will be the 8th major release of ColdFusion since it first shipped in 1995. Scorpio will be released in the the middle of 2007. Retrived from:  http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Scorpio:FAQ

Introducing ColdFusion MX 7: feature-packed release with  powerful new capabilities to ColdFusion's rapid application development environment. Cold Fusion MX 7 brings in new features and capabilities like - creating rich Internet applications by combining  of Flex 2 and ColdFusion MX 7T, create printable Web Content, create rich Flash forms, easily interface to SMS text messaging, etc.  Click here for more insights: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productinfo/features/

Disney is  moving  to become a multimedia, multiplatform digital entertainment company: Walt Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger is declaring that combining the timelessness of our memorable characters with the timeliness of the cutting edge, Disney is a company where art challenges technology and technology inspires art. The highlight was the announcement of a new, massively multiplayer online game based on "Pirates of the Caribbean," which the company will launch in the spring as part of a revamped Disney.com. Pirates also will be the basis for one of several new channels on the retooled Web site, where users can immerse themselves in a virtual world based on Disney characters and properties. Other multiplayer games also are being developed based on an array of Disney properties. 

For a sample of Flash applications developed by SigEx Inc for it's partners and public, please refer to www.sigex.com and select from the variety of the 168 thematic websites it has created.