by Nicolas Noben
New December 2007 figures show a 95.7% penetration level for Flash 9 and 98.3% for Flash 8 in US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan.
View all the figures, per months and per version here.

by Nicolas Noben
“Adobe Systems brought the chief technology officer title out of retirement Tuesday and applied it to Kevin Lynch.”
“The CTO role will include core technology that spans across our businesses, and that could include elements that become features in future versions of our applications.”
More information here and there.
by Nicolas Noben
To be able to focus on other projects, Adobe has announced that it will discontinue its stock photo service (on April 1st).
The fact that sites such as istockphoto are so cheap makes it a very difficult market to compete into. Better spend the dollars in others area of expertise. Maybe a new IDE* for Flash?
More information here.
*: One can dream, yeah?