Macromedia Unveils Flash Player for Microsoft Windows-Powered Pocket PC

by PRNewswire Macromedia, Inc. announced the delivery of the Macromedia(R) Flash(TM) Player for the Microsoft Windows-powered Pocket PC platform. This announcement is part of Macromedia's continuing strategy to take the Macromedia Flash Player beyond the desktop, allowing distinctive Web applications, user interfaces, educational and entertainment content to be experienced on the next generation of the wireless Web.

Macromedia Flash content can already be experienced on a variety of Internet-enabled devices such as AOL TV, 3Com Audrey, Microsoft WebTV, MSN Web Companion, and the Sony eVilla. With more than 96 percent of desktop users immediately able to view Macromedia Flash content, the Macromedia Flash Player is the most distributed software in the history of the Web.

Today's developer release of the Macromedia Flash Player for the Pocket PC Platform will enable developers to tune their content for these devices in advance of the full-featured version of the player, due later this year.

Macromedia Flash Player, the standard for viewing high-impact, rich media over all bandwidths, enables the delivery of a broad range of content including entertainment, learning, and business applications to the Microsoft Pocket PC platform, which includes the Compaq iPaq, Casio Cassiopeia, and Hewlett-Packard Jornada devices. Because of the inherent 16-bit color, built-in audio capabilities and up to 206 MHz processing power, devices running the Pocket PC platform provide users with the best Macromedia Flash experience available today on a PDA.

Any of the more than 500,000 Macromedia Flash developers that exist today who are interested in developing content for these devices can download the free Macromedia Flash Authoring Kit for Pocket PC. The kit provides Macromedia Flash 5 authoring guidelines, documentation, and examples for the Pocket PC platform. The kit is available at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/pocketpc/authoring/ .

Because of the tremendous industry interest in Macromedia Flash Player for the Pocket PC Platform, there are already sample Macromedia Flash content and applications available today in a new online gallery at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/pocketpc/gallery/ . This gallery includes Macromedia Flash applications, games, and entertainment to view or download from content partners such as Atom Films, Fallon, FunMail, shockwave.com, Smashing Ideas, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Wildhand! and others.

-----Original Message----- From: Rick Zanotti [mailto:rzanotti@RELATE.COM] Sent: den 26 februari 2001 17:06 To: AWARE@LISTSERV.CC.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Subject: Re: AWARE and PDA's

Authorware won't run on PDAs, but there was recently announced a new version of Flash which will. Check the Macromedia site for more info. Thanks.

> -----Original Message----- > From: Authorware Professional > [mailto:AWARE@listserv.cc.kuleuven.ac.be]On Behalf Of James Hatton > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:45 AM > To: AWARE@LISTSERV.CC.KULEUVEN.AC.BE > Subject: AWARE and PDA's > > > Hi, > > I am designing a program using AWARE and was wondering if it will run on a > handheld PC. Could anyone tell me if a packaged AWARE program will run on > Windows CE, Palm OS or any other handheld PC operating system > > Cheers, > > Jim. > > -- > The AWARE List > http://www.e-media.nl/aware/index.html > > Search the Archives > http://www.e-media.nl/aware/search.html > > Netiquette: > - Use descriptive subject fields > - Use subject prefixes (A5 , A5Mac , A5Web , KO , UCD , OT) > > >

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