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Monday, March 17, 2008 2:43 PM

Flash Lite on Windows Mobile

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:21 PM

Silverlight on iPhone

Jobs says Flash just doesn't cut the mustard and won't show up on the iPhone [1] [2]. Does that mean we will see Silverlight running on the iPhone first? There are some rumors... [3] [4] [1] http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803041742DOWJONESDJONLINE000829_FORTUNE5...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:00 PM

Silverlight and N Tier Architecture

Ryan van der Kooy asks: "I've been beginning to try to find out how a good architecture will work using silverlight 2.0. I've read that Silverlight 2.0 could possible offer a 6 tier design. However, having a bll in your silverlight app could possibly...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:01 AM

Silverlight for Symbian

"The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available...
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:18 PM

Silverlight Supercomputer

Dan Fay pointed to an interesting article on CodeProject about building a grid computing framework that runs on Silverlight. The proposition is really interesting. Imagine someone like the folding at home ( http://folding.stanford.edu/ ) project providing...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:38 PM

How Silverlight Will Change the Way We Build Applications

"...Don't make the mistake of tossing Silverlight in the same bucket as Flash. While they definitely compete in some significant areas, and both have real strengths in different areas, Silverlight 2.0 was created from the ground-up to be an application...
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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:19 AM

Moonlight (AKA Silverlight on Linux) Release Schedule Update

Fresh on the heals of the Silverlight 2.0 announcements, Miguel de Icaza of Novel has some of his own: "Miguel de Icaza demoed the Moonlight project at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston this week! He said the first version (Moonlight 1.0) would be released...
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Friday, November 30, 2007 2:50 PM

Silverlight 2.0 (formerly known as 1.1) Announced

ScottGu dropping the news as usual. Most interesting feature, IMO, is the upgraded communication support: "The next Silverlight preview release will add support for REST, POX, RSS, and WS* communication. It will also add support for cross domain network...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 6:36 PM

Is Adobe Really Playing the Lock-in Game With Flash Video?

So, you aren't going to be locked in to buy On2's codec... but looks like despite the fact that they are using an open standard, if you want to intelligently stream the video you will be locked into buying Flash Media Server: The Motion Picture Experts...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:45 AM

Silverlight Forcing Macromedia to Rethink

Many Flash developers have been complaining about the choice of On2's codec over a standard like H.264 for years. Interestingly, Adobe is finally adding support for some standard video codecs in the next version of Flash. The question is, how much did...
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