Sound is new Flash frontier

Adobe Systems released its first major update in three years today, packing in features missing from May's first beta, says The Register.

Flash Player 10 will deliver sound file features that go some way towards giving developers working on audio the same powers of content creation and customisation as video. The company cited feedback from the beta community for extending the customisation features to audio.

The company said it's putting the creation and editing of audio content on a par with video, by giving creatives the power to build and edit sound files rather than use what's in the box.

Japanese flat-panel TV makers showed the world at the recent 2008 Ceatec Expo that thin-panel technology architecture isn't relegated to future display systems such as OLED and field-emission display technologies, reports Twice.

LCD and plasma technologies are also getting thin and will sell for considerably less than the big-screen first fruits of other technologies still in development.

Increasing trends in the race to absolute thinness included more use of LED backlighting in thin-concept LCDs and new lower-power technologies for svelte new plasma offerings, scheduled for 2009 and beyond.

The Office of Emergency Management and PackeTalk are working on the first city-wide wireless audiovisual system in the US, says Hoboken Reporter.

Law enforcement officials are already using more than 50 cameras around town to gather criminal intelligence and they are testing a companion community alert loud-speaker system.

A total of 75 wireless locations have been set up to handle both functions by PackeTalk, a company founded in 2004 and based in Hoboken. While PackeTalk did not install the cameras, it created the wireless network that links them to each other and to the speakers.