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Is Adobe replaying Sun's Java tape?

Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate? 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 »

Office, Vista changed in wake of Adobe threat

Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems. Read more »

Open-source Java -- except for the exceptions

Sun releases Java's source code under the GPL -- except for some third-party chunks and the compatibility test kit. Read more »

'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools

James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, once quipped that the average software developer spends more on cafe lattes than on tools. Read more »

Web mash-up makers gather

A conference in California will examine the success and future of online services that mix together multiple APIs. Read more »

Coding for fame, and dollars

Las Vegas has seen its share of title fights, but the only thing that will get pounded by the 64 finalists arriving this week for the 2006 TopCoder Open will be a computer keyboard. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

AJAX sets off tools race

The growing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit. Read more »

Open-source Visionary: Proprietary software is not okay

When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off? Read more »

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The Mobile Future

The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »

Why open source is bad for Australia

Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »

Introducing JavaFX: Sun's new family of Java-based products

JavaFX is a new family of products and technologies from Sun Microsystems that you can use to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). JavaFX currently consists of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile; other JavaFX products are planned for release in the future. Read more »

Mobile Case Study: Podmo

Che Metcalfe got so fed up with the limitations of mobile phones and network operators for distributing content that he built a network platform of his own Read more »

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