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Adobe aquire Macromedia

With its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems is buying into a crucial battle to shape the next generation of Web application development. Read more »

Microsoft to push Silverlight 1.0 RC out the door

Microsoft's Adobe flash-killer Silverlight is entering its next phase with the software maker set to debut Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate late this week. Read more »

Adobe AIR brings online apps to the desktop

AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a download that lets Web applications run on a desktop. With AIR applications, people can work offline and drag and drop items like graphics or text between Web and desktop applications. Read more »

Microsoft brings .Net to Silverlight

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, has introduced a video-streaming service and .Net development tool support for Silverlight, its cross-platform Web browser plug-in. Read more »

Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival

Looking to dethrone Adobe's Web video tool, Redmond to unveil a browser plug-in called Silverlight. Read more »

Silverlight ships, gets mooned by Linux

Microsoft has released Silverlight 1.0 and said it has partnered with Novell to deliver a Linux version of the software. Read more »

Microsoft takes Silverlight beyond Windows

The software giant will let .Net and Ruby developers write Web applications for Windows and the Mac Read more »

Sun tries again with consumer-flavoured Java

The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development. Read more »

Microsoft plugs Windows worm holes

Microsoft on Tuesday in the US provided fixes for eight flaws related to Windows, including three that could be used to compromise a system without any user interaction. Read more »

SP2 vs. the plug-ins

While security experts applaud Microsoft's recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product's introduction with dread and suspicion. Read more »

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Flex: The new face of design and development

Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »

Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor

A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »

Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »

Create rich interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight

Recognising an area of technology without a presence, Microsoft has thrown its considerable weight behind an initiative to make inroads in the area now dominated by Flash with its Silverlight product. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

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Flash in the pan

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Unlocking Android

    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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