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Akamai Announces Media Framework for Adobe Flash Video- October 26, 2007 Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced its Akamai Media Framework for Adobereg; Flashreg;. The Framework is designed as a valuable resource to help developers start building video players in Adobe Flash Professional software. The Akamai Media Framework for Adobe Flash Professional software enables the creation of video player applications for streaming and progressive download for content created in...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/akamai_announces_media_framework_for_adobe_flash_v... Netbriefing's Proclaim Sports New Features- October 26, 2007 For those that haven't used the tool yet, Netbriefing's Proclaim sports some new features. Netbriefings the large webcast experts with superior webcasting tools on the enterprise side launched a new tool earlier this year called Proclaim. 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