Adobe updates Flash Player, Flex tool
Flash Player 9 for Windows and Macintosh, available as a free download, has been rewritten to improve the performance and "expressiveness", or interactivity, of Flash applications, said Sydney Sloan, group product marketing manager of Adobe`s enterprise and developer business.
According to CNet, Sloan said Adobe will release a Linux version of Flash Player 9, but didn`t specify a date.
In tandem with the Flash Player 9 release, Adobe is making its Flex 2 product line available, including a free, entry-level Flex 2 Software Development Kit meant to encourage development of more Flash applications.
Nortel slashes 1 900 jobs, creates 800 in revamp
Nortel Networks, which has already slashed thousands of jobs over the past few years, says it will be cutting another 1 900 positions globally. However, an Australian company representative said the cuts are not expected to affect local personnel, reports Computer World.
The firm also said it would be creating 800 jobs overseas.
The net reduction of approximately 1 100 positions globally is the latest in a "series of actions Nortel is taking to achieve a targeted operating-margin expansion in excess of $1.5 billion in 2008," the company said in a statement.
Intel to sell hand-held chip division
Intel is selling its division that makes processors for handheld gadgets to the Marvell Technology Group for $600 million in cash.
Intel entered the market the late 1990s, but could not overtake entrenched competitors like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. Furthermore, AMD, which for most of its history copied Intel`s innovations, in 2003 introduced a series of processors for PCs and servers that have stolen sales from its larger competitor.
Intel will focus on its main business of supplying chips for PCs and computer servers, reports New York Times.
IBM, HP preferred vendors for x86
A study from the Gabriel Consulting Group covering overall x86 technology, shows IBM posted a vendor preference index score of 120, which compares to 100 for HP, 89 for Sun and 40 for Dell, The Register reports.
IBM also won out in observed system performance and raw system performance, although HP almost matched Big Blue in both categories. Sun again finished third, and Dell brought up the rear.
HP, with the old Compaq engineering prowess behind it, knocked all rivals on the ever-important serviceability and reliability fronts with IBM coming in second, Sun in third and Dell in last place.
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