Adobe has announced that it has open sourced two of its Flash player platforms. Adobe's core technologies will remain proprietary.

On Tuesday Adobe launched the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), a rich media player platform. OSMF was previously part of a project codenamed Strobe.

Adobe also open sourced the Text Layout Framework (TLF), a typography platform for web apps.

"Adobe is committed to providing core Flash platform technologies to the community as open source," said Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe, in a statement. "By releasing OSMF and TLF as open source, we are helping facilitate the creation and sharing of best practices for media players and rich text-based web application development."

Adobe announced that it was collaborating with content and application delivery company Akamai on the Open Video Player initiative, which was founded by Akamai. The two companies will also collaborate on OSMF.

Adobe Flash is in direct competition with Microsoft's Silverlight rich-media technology. Microsoft launched Silverlight 3 earlier this month.

Silverlight is based on .NET -- the open source implementation of .NET is Mono. Microsoft has assisted Mono development. The open source version of Silverlight is called Moonlight, which is based on Mono, and sponsored by Novell. Moonlight enables Silverlight content to run on Linux.

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BEIJING (AFP) - China Unicom said Tuesday it has moved closer to a deal with US hi-tech giant Apple to become the first company authorised to sell the iPhone in the world's largest mobile market.

"We have made progress but there are still some problems to be resolved," said a Unicom spokesman.

"Both sides have their own timeframe for an agreement but essentially it depends on the practical progress of the negotiations," he said

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following our first ever trip to the WOMAD music festival over the weekend.  Photos to follow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/womad2009/

In a nutshell a few handy tips about how to integrate twitter into you business strategy: http://business.twitter.com/twitter101

I have read and interetsing article this morning from Forbes about googles push into the home.  I was slightly confused about what would happen to Android, follwing the announcement of the Google Chrome OS; however, now all becomes clear. 

Google is definately floating my boat right now.  We went out to see them in San Franciso a couple of weeks ago and I was BLOWN AWAY.  Microsoft must be bricking it!

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/22/google-android-homes-technology-wireless-goo...

Nice work people....at last an updated version of our site.  Tell us what you think, and come back to see new stuff happening Fridarily..

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Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

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The new Translate feature is available in all international versions of Toolbar, including English, and the translation service supports 41 different languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/toolbar-now-with-advanced-translation....