AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Seeking Alpha
Another quarter and another hope that Adobe’s Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple’s iPhone.
On Adobe’s second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here’s what Narayen had to say following Adobe’s earnings report:
With respect to the iPhone, we are [...]

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Seeking Alpha
For Adobe (ADBE), it may now be time to take On2 Technologies [ONT] out of the market. With yesterday’s announcement that Bill Joll has resigned as President and CEO of On2 and as a member of their Board of Directors, and the recent problems surrounding falsified revenue at On2, Adobe could swoop in and [...]

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All Things Digital
Adobe (ADBE) shares are losing ground today after Cowen’s Walter Pritchard cut his rating on the stock to Neutral from Outperform.
Pritchard is concerned about the company’s transition from the current version of its flagship software package–Creative Suite 3–to the coming update, Creative Suite 4. He says that with the May quarter, “the company [...]

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Venture Beat
With the launch of a new site called Acrobat.com, Adobe says it’s ready to compete against online office products like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Live. For now, the site brings together three of Adobe’s office services — Buzzword for creating and sharing documents, ConnectNow for web conferencing and an “organizer” with 5 gigabytes [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen took over for long-time boss Bruce Chizen last Dec. 1. Before he started, we said there were two things he needed to focus on: 1) Transitioning Adobe (ADBE) from a boxed software giant to a Web- and “cloud”-driven firm, and 2) Fixing Adobe’s mobile strategy before Flash gets dumped.
So [...]

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I, Cringely
There was a game we used to play in the office, years ago, casting a movie of our own lives. What well-known actor or actress would play you? Who would play your friends? The game eventually faded, as games always do, but at the time it was great fun. So let’s try it again: [...]

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Tech Crunch

Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier to develop applications across devices—using [...]

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The Los Angeles Times
Microsoft has an uphill climb with Silverlight, the browser plug-in technology it’s developing to compete with Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash technology. To boost its chances, it’s taking a distinctly un-Microsoftian tack: it’s designing the technology to work on software platforms and devices outside the Windows universe. And in that vein, it’s working with [...]

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The Hollywood Reporter
Adobe is set to enter the online video arena today with the launch of Adobe Media Player, loaded with content from MTV Networks, CBS, Universal Music Group and others.
Although it joins a crowded market, the service has a built-in advantage as it uses the same Flash video format employed by Google’s YouTube. It [...]

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Business Week
Chelsea Clinton was put off the other day when a student asked her about the Monica Lewinsky affair at a campaign rally. I know because I was surfing the Net and caught a video of it on The Washington Post’s Web site. After that, I replayed a few American Idol moments on YouTube (GOOG), [...]

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