Adobe Systems, Inc. (ADBE) Moves Improved Flash Technology To TV With New Agreement
Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) and OpenTV Corp. (OPTV) have announced a strengthening of their partnership with the addition of Adobe’s Flash Lite software to OpenTV’s middleware. The move allows web technologies such as HTML and Adobe Flash to be easily combined for faster services and to readily generate time-sensitive applications such as advertising and other enhanced TV applications. The integrated product that results is expected to first be available in the Japanese market in the second half of 2009. OpenTV technology enhances digital television online and offline, while Adobe’s relatively new AIR software has allowed a greater openness of…