CommuniGate launches Flash-based Pronto
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(InfoWorld) - Unified communications (UC) vendors continue to pile on new products as UC begins to include more high-tech categories in its feature set. This week, CommuniGate Systems announced its latest version of Pronto, one of the first RIA (rich Internet application) UC client solutions. Unlike other UC client interfaces, Pronto is an Internet-based application built on Adobe Flex using Adobe Flash Player 9 as the client delivery mechanism. "Using Adobe sets CommuniGate apart because it is based in Flash, an enterprise-caliber rich solution," said Chris Swenson, director of software analysis at the NPD Group. Currently, most solutions are fat clients that must be downloaded and run as a client/server application. While Pronto is lightweight and can be piped in through the browser, it faces the same challenges as other RIAs in that users will not have access offline. However, the problem is being whittled away, said Swenson. as witnessed by Google Gears and Adobe Air, formerly known as Adobe Apollo, two solutions that promise to offer offline capabilities for online applications. UC is becoming an "imperial" category, said Swenson, as it begins to accommodate more and more technologies. "From sales data, we can see that in terms of dollar volume growth, unified communications as a category won't stop anytime soon," said Swenson. Swenson's designation of "imperial" is a reference to economics as the "imperial science" because it takes in all other social sciences. Among the new features included in Pronto version 1.2 are click-to-call capability from Pronto contacts, and the ability to merge and view simultaneously multiple calendars. "If you are using a sales group calendar, a company calendar, and a personal calendar, you can merge them visually just by pressing Merge," said John Doyle, vice president of business development at CommuniGate Systems. Other features included are a new IM indicator, browser integration, and IM roster management. Doyle also hinted at future versions, saying that if Adobe launched a suite of desktop productivity applications, as the Web keeps buzzing about, users would be able to merge those solutions with Pronto's Flex- and Flash-based UC capabilities. The Pronto IM client uses the open source protocol, the calendar is compatible with Microsoft Outlook, and the VoIP messaging and management component is SIP-based and will work with SIP-based carriers. The client also includes a built-in audio and video player, an RSS feed, and a photo editor. Pricing starts at $89 for 25 users.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans later this month to unveil its first ever content switch: a load-balancing and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) acceleration switch based on the Nauticus N2000 products that the Santa Clara, California, company acquired in January of this year.
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Tre eventi espositivi, Touch!, neoZone, Cloudnine
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Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS.The technology is leveraged in enterprise rich Internet applications, Adobe said.Adobe's remoting allows for connecting of Flex clients to Java server business logic. The messaging software enables building of real-time or data push applications.Through the open-source effort, developers can connect to back-end distributed data and push data to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) applications. The Adobe Flash Player is used on the client side."We've seen more and more of our customers who are using Flex technologies are building more sophisticated applications," said Phil Costa, Adobe director of product management for Flex and ColdFusion. "To support the growth of that developer community, we're releasing these low-level technologies as an open-source project so a larger community of developers can get access to them."BlazeDS, which stands for data services, allows developers to add connectivity to rich Internet applications for collaboration and data-push functionality. Developers also can connect rich clients to server applications, including Java and Adobe ColdFusion components, Adobe said.Remoting is primarily used to make remote requests against existing server logic, while the messaging technology is used most often to stream data out to the client. These previously were available to enterprises only as part of the company's LiveCycle Data Services ES offering. Also being contributed to open source is Adobe's AMF (Action Message Format) protocol specification, which has been a proprietary binary data protocol. Remoting uses AMF to access server-side business logic.Adobe's implementation of remoting runs in Java, but the company also is working with an open-source project called AMF PHP to implement the same protocol in PHP.BlazeDS will be offered under the Lesser GPL version 3 license in early-2008. BlazeDS and AMF are available as public betas on Adobe Labs. Using BlazeDS requires client libraries, which are included in the Flex SDK and Flex Builder.Adobe may in the future provide a native AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) client to work with its newly open sourced technologies.Adobe also plans to offer Adobe LiveCycle Data Services Community Edition, a subscription service featuring builds of BlazeDS and access to Adobe support services.The enterprise-level LiveCycle Data Services ES (Enterprise Suite) includes capabilities for building customer engagement applications that require messaging, advanced client-server data synchronization and conflict detection and resolution. Offline data management services also are featured.??
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Today we released version 1.6.3 of Streamline, a stream-based network subsystem for Linux.   This first release in over a half year has been thorougly stress-tested, so it should be more stable. New features include support for named and unnamed pipes, the full POSIX file IO interface, a write-after-read optimization similar to splicing, a method for catching HTTP GET requests and self-resizing (based on load) ringbuffer designs. Please read the changelog for more details.
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Researchers have shown how two widely used computer technologies -- Flash and UPnP -- could be used to take over a router.
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In order to meet the growing demands of the flash memory market, Fujitsu and AMDâs flash memory subsidiary Spansion LLC unveiled plans to develop a new âORNANDâ flash memory architecture that combines the best of NOR code execution with NAND data
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Tricastmedia, a leading provider of mobile messaging and UI technologies will present its software solutions at CTIA in Los Angeles, 12 - 14th September, 2006. At Stand No. 664, Tricastmedia will launch its flash like UI development platform for mobile and consumer electronic devices.
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Strisce blu, vigili e telecamere: questi i provvedimenti
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 - Macromedia has introduced a new addition to the Flex product line, Flex Builder, a product designed to accelerate all aspects of rich Internet application development including interface
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Voiceglo, a subsidiary of TheGlobe.com, has released a test version of an application designed to create interoperability among four major consumer instant message (IM) networks.
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SARASOTA, Fla., March 1  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compress Technologies, Inc.
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Protego focuses on security monitoring and threat management appliances for enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and according to a statement from Cisco, it is Protego&#39;s products&#39; abilities to detect, correlate and mitigate threats
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Macromedia has updated Central 1.5, codenamed "Gemini", to link up with America Online's AOL Instant Messenger service through a free software development kit. Gemini is the lynchpin of Macromedia's strategy to integrate Flash content with the desktop.
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Inexpensive flash-based player isn't perfect, but it serves its purpose.
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BOSTONâMicrosoft Corp. announced Tuesday an early beta of a new rich client for its Live Communications Server product designed to unite instant messaging with telephony and video, and to embed such technologies in other applications.
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This is release 0.3.0 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).   This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.  This release's main feature is the networking ability - it's the first release where it is possible to download and install FireFox and browse the web, get mIRC (or some other irc client) and get to #reactos to chat a bit with developers. Or install command-line Samba-TNG client via the built-in package manager and use it to share files with Windows, Linux and MacOS X (all of them support SMB protocol)  But there are a bunch of changes beneath the "networking" feature: The kernel, drivers, applications, control panel applets, Win32 subsystem, boot loader, etc, etc was changed, improved, bugfixed and hackremoved. For the detailed overview it's advised to read the Changelog.  The compatibility with applications and drivers is also improved. In order to keep track of progress, the reactos.org website now features a ReactOS Compatibility Database. It allows to quickly look up the driver's version or some software which has been tested on various ReactOS releases and see how good it performs.  Thanks a lot to our core developers who are doing a fantastic job and to those people who submit patches for various small and big things - it really helps a lot, even if it is a formatting change!  Aleksey Bragin, ReactOS Project Coordinator http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/