Microsoft Microsoft Silverlight Takes On Adobe's Flash Today at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft and Adobe have gone tit for tat with product launches that directly target one another. Our previous post covered Adobe's launch of a new Internet video solution, that competes with Microsoft's Windows Media Player. And Microsoft has fired right back, unveiling… Richard MacManus View comments
News Adobe Feeds Apollo Ecosystem With New Internet Video Player Today Adobe announced the launch of the Adobe Media Player, a desktop app that enables consumers to view high quality video whether they are online or offline. It is also designed for content owners to distribute, track and monetize their video. Built on their Apollo framework, the Adobe Media Player is cross-platform and based on open standards… Jay Fortner View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup, 9-13 April 2007 Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that due to recent travel and the start of the Web 2.0 Expo, this week's Wrapup is later and shorter than usual. Top Web News The big news this week came right at the very end of the week - just after 5pm PST on Friday to be exact, when Google announced it will aquire… Richard MacManus View comments
Google Google to Acquire DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion In Cash In a move predicted by R/WW's Sean Ammirati and The New York Times a week or so ago, one of the big Internet companies has acquired online advertising system DoubleClick. And the buyer is none other than Web 2.0's big spender, Google! According to the press release just out: "The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management… Richard MacManus View comments
Polls Poll: Revenge of the Weird Search Engines! In observance of Friday the 13th, I've put together a 'Revenge of the Weird Search Engines' poll. Check them out and vote for your favorite! 1) Ghostly Gateway 2) UFO Crawler 3) Ujiko 4) Talk Backwards 5) Tin Finger 6) Patriot Search 7) Time Search 8) Good Luck Finder 9) Adverlicio.us 10) Quotiki Charles Knight, AltSearchEngines editor View comments