Friday, 13 October 2006

Adobe Snaps Up Actimagine's Mobile Software Technology

Adobe Systems has acquired the vector graphics technology developed by Actimagine. With Flash technology already established on high-end mobile handsets around the world, the acquisition would extend the reach of Adobe mobile technologies, including Adobe Flash Lite, to mass-market devices. Under the terms of the agreement, Actimagine will also incorporate existing and future versions of Adobe Flash Lite technology into their service offerings.

Flash technology enables operators, OEMs, and content providers to offer mobile experiences across a wide range of mobile devices, operating systems, and processors.

By leveraging the Flash ecosystem, which includes the Flash authoring tool, Flash Lite player runtime and an established community of designers and developers, Flash Lite is said to reduce deployment costs and deliver content and interfaces. Today more than 115 million Flash technology-enabled devices have shipped worldwide, the company said.