Dreamweaver CS5 boosts content support

Adobe has released Dreamweaver CS5, the latest version of its professional Web development program, to create and deploy Web sites and applications, reports PC World.

The updated Dreamweaver tool supports third-party content management systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal; allowing designers to get accurate views of dynamic Web content.

John Loiacono, senior vice-president and GM of creative solutions at Adobe, says: "By offering integration with Omniture solutions in our Dreamweaver and Flash tools, we're providing Web professionals and marketers with actionable, real-time intelligence about their online business.”

3Crowd, a provider of management tools for cloud services and content, has raised $6.62 million in first-round funding, according to VentureBeat.

Based in San Mateo, California, 3Crowd opened with two products, CrowdMonitor and CrowdDirector, both of which aim to give companies greater control over their cloud content distribution.

CrowdDirector is a sort of virtual load balancer that enables companies to intelligently deliver content across a variety of sources - including multiple content delivery networks (CDNs), Web servers, and the like. This avoids the single point of failure problem, since there is more than one source for content, and it removes the headache of juggling multiple CDNs manually.

Nokia has acquired MetaCarta, a specialist in geographic intelligence, to boost the phone maker's push to expand the location-based services it offers to its mobile device users, says InformationWeek.

MetaCarta delivers its technology as an on-premise appliance, a hosted appliance or as a Web service.

Nokia has been pushing for location-based services since its $8.1 billion acquisition of map data specialist Navteq in 2007.