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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 »
MS, Adobe war in blogosphere
Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »
Build the platform and apps will come: Adobe exec
Adobe's strategy for it Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is not to take on Microsoft directly, but provide a platform for developers to build Web-applications, according to a company executive. Read more »
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 »
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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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 »
Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 1)
Windows Presentation Foundation is one of the most interesting new developments in .NET 3.0, we sat down with WPF trainer and author Ian Griffiths to talk WPF, Silverlight and what Microsoft has over the competition. Read more »
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Adobe Releases More Details on Apollo
-- Adobe is exploring new ways of enabling developers to develop and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), most notable is the recent release of Flex 2. A new direction that they're working on currently is the ability to put an RIA on the desktop - something that Microsoft has shown interest in as well, their solution Expression is tied to the ever-delayed Vista operating system. Expression has had it's own setback with Microsoft letting it slip this week that it will now be released as late as 2008. 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 »
Adobe to set Flex free
-- Adobe have announced plans to open source the Flex platform in full under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) by the end of 2007. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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Google launches Apps Marketplace
Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
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