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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

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Microsoft Pays Real Bling

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Sad day for the industry (not bad at all compared to the horrible earthquake in Pakistan & floods in Guatemala).
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, agreed to pay RealNetworks Inc. about $761 million as part of a settlement that removes one of the last major antitrust lawsuits brought by a Microsoft competitor. RealNetworks shares […]

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Riot for Laptops

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Violence blows, but it makes my heart feel good to know people REALLY want technology. I’d be insulted if someone gave me a 4 year-old iBook; that, to me, equates to a pimp looking paper weight, but then, I’m a spoiled rotten geek. Hey, at least I’d say, “Thank you! That is […]

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GameTap: Broadband Games On Demand

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

The press release for GameTap from Turner makes it sound like GameSpy, except you can actually download games and play them vs. just having GameSpy facilitate collaboration. XBox Live does this pretty well for a v1. Sounds like old titles are included; I’m hoping some of the old skool classics from SNES make […]

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Adobe Acquires Macromedia

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq:MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

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Macromedia Press Release
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Curious; regarding the Yahoo deal where Macromedia partnered with Yahoo, does Yahoo want to purchase Adobe, or does Adobe want to purchase Yahoo? Adobe already […]

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Yahoo Opens Search Engine to Developers

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

“Search firm makes a bid for enterprise business
Yahoo has launched a network giving developers access to the company’s technology through web services-based APIs.
The interfaces allow application developers to create services that mix search results from an intranet with web search results or stories from Yahoo News. They can also use Yahoo’s spelling correction technology to […]

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