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At the 2009 BlackBerry® Developer Conference, Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today expanded their collaboration and announced that creative professionals and application developers will be able to use the Adobe® Flash® Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite® content development and authoring tools to easily create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry® smartphones.
“There is tremendous opportunity for RIM and Adobe to align our platforms to help developers create BlackBerry applications that are highly engaging and deeply integrated in order to deliver …

Columnist John Dvorak thinks that Adobe Systems has a Microsoft problem and that Linux provides a clear solution: Adobe could port its Creative Suite…to Linux as a shot across Redmond’s bow. Then the company should race Linux in-house and develop a complete, optimized Linux OS…
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“There’s a new beta for Flash Player 10 (Astro) available for Windows, Mac, and — you guessed it — Linux.” Drop-down menus, like the one on Adobe’s webpages, can now properly overlay Flash animations in both Firefox and Opera. There’s also better camera support, better language support and speed and stability improvements.
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