If you've spent much time developing applications on Microsoft's latest and greatest UI platforms (that'd be Silverlight and WPF for anyone wondering), you know that one of their weakest points is tool support. VisualStudio provides a great XAML coding environment complete with IntelliSense, but it has a designer that is little more that a preview image- you can't interact with it at all. Expression Blend has a great visual designer for XAML, but try to modify the markup and you'll quickly remem
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Adobe Wins Gold in Online Olympics
When the Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin at the end of this week in Beijing, it will be the most web tech heavy Olympic Games ever put on. 5,000 hours of streaming video coverage will be pushed out on the web from Beijing, so much that 95% of CIOs think that the Olympics may break the Internet. But while the individual media companies that won the contracts to stream Olympic video are certainly winners (including NBC Universal, Google, and Brightcove), the big winner on 08-08-08 will be Adobe.
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When TokBox talks browser-based video chat, Bain Capital and Sequoia listen
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