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Adobe reported strong fiscal second quarter results and gave some color on Creative Suite 3 demand, which is strong, and AIR’s role in the jam-packed rich internet application space.

Fueled by Creative Suite 3 sales–the product launched in April–Adobe reported record revenue of $745.6 million, up 17 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, Adobe reported a profit of $223.2 million, or 37 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 35 cents a share, according to Thomson Financial. (more…)

I’ve been trying out the Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) SDK.   There are two varieties of AIR apps, Flex, or HTML. The HTML kind is essentially a browser app that runs in WebKit, as wrapped by the AIR runtime, instead of in the browser, while the Flex kind compiles Adobe’s MXML into a Flash SWF which again runs within AIR. The AIR SDK only supports HTML AIR apps, so for the full experience you also need the Flex 3 beta SDK. (more…)

Developers have big plans for Gears, the Google browser plug-in designed to provide offline access to web-hosted applications.

Although Gears has only been available for about two weeks in an early-stage version, many developers have rushed to give it a test drive and brainstorm for new ways to use it. (more…)

Adobe has released Flex 3 and AIR (Formerly Apollo) Documentation. Please find the resources at following links.

Beta 1 learning resources
Here is a list (including links) of Flex 3 Beta 1 learning resources:

• Flex 3 Beta 1 Release notes (includes installation instructions)
• Feature introductions from Flex developers (highly recommended!)
• Flex Developer’s Guide
• Building and Deploying Flex Applications
• Creating and Extending Flex Components
• Using Flex Builder (available only as a PDF in the documentation ZIP file)
• Flex/AIR ActionScript Language Reference (LiveDocs)
• Flex 3 Beta 1 documentation zip file (contains PDFs of Flex and selected AIR usage docs, HTML for the Flex-AIR Language Reference, and a ZIP file contains sample AIR applications)

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Hi Guys,

It finally happend and was much more exciting than expected. We had great Guru’s of Flex there passionate about talking Flex, promoting Flex and keeping their efforts to see a real Web 2.0 world.

We Had Prayank Swaroop (Adobe Evangelist), Abdul Quabiz, Suketu Vyas, Rafique Gilani and yes!! I was there too looking at the shining stars on board discussing some great happenings in Adobe world.

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Great announcements from Adobe today: Apollo gets a permanent name (Adobe AIR) and hardware acceleration of video. Filling the Good news basket with the biggest news Adobe Flex 3 Beta is also available. What a great way to start the week!

Apollo is now named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Beta is out on Adobe Labs as well.

We are hearing some mind blowing stuffs from Ted Patrick about the new features on his blog for Adobe Flex 3. It’s been a learning week for Flex 3 features great enhancements in almost every area: components, file size, compilation time, refactoring, a real profiler, improved workflow, CSS design view, deep linking and back-button support, local caching of the Flex framework, Flex components for Flash CS3 - the list goes on.

Ted also tossed some of the upcoming Flex and Apollo integration. Last, but not the least - the Flash player has gotten a serious update - it now offers mipmap scaling, multithreaded vector renderer and bitmap filters (with support for up to 4 cores), Multi-threaded video encoding as well as DirectX (Windows) and OpenGL (OSX) hardware accelerated video playback. All we can say is OUTSTANDING…

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