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Adobe blasts Apollo into beta through AIR
Adobe Systems on Monday released a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo, that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs. Read more »
Adobe sees its future on the Web
Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »
Flash to jump beyond the browser
Adobe Systems is working on software meant to blur the line between the Web and desktop PCs. Read more »
Adobe to pull Office rival out of AIR?
Adobe may look to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform to launch an office productivity suite to take on Microsoft. Read more »
Adobe to take wraps off Creative Suite 3
Adobe Systems has launched Creative Suite 3, a showcase for the company's merger with rival Macromedia that is designed to smoothly combine Web design with content creation. Read more »
Google takes Web apps offline
Google today announced the availability of a new open-source browser plug-in, Google Gears, that promises developers the ability to create applications that work within a browser -- even without Internet connectivity. 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 »
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Desktop RSS with Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is currently in public beta; it allows developers to build dual platform applications for the desktop with existing Web 2.0 technologies including Flash and Ajax. Read more »
MAX 2006 Report
Max 2006 was staged in Las Vegas on 23rd - 26th October, Andrew Muller was there for Builder AU. Read more »
Metaliq flexes its creative expression
Metaliq build applications with Flex and Silverlight -- leaving them in the interesting position of playing two sides of the rich Internet application platform field. Read more »
On AIR: Getting ready for primetime
We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR, Thermo and how Ryan has covered the US in a bus. Read more »
Spry Interrogation
Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe, discusses their designer centric Ajax framework Spry. Read more »
Servers on a budget: 4 Servers tested
Need a new server but only have AU$2500 to spend? The range of options is suprisingly good as long as you're willing to do without some of the fancy features. Read more »
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Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled
-- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »
Java's client-side defibrillator
-- Despite the many pundits over the years who were ready to carry Java out to the cart via the enterprise backend, there was Sun stubbornly saying it still wanted "to go for a walk". Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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