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Adobe joins Linux-phone group to spread Flash

In an effort to spread its Flash technology as widely as possible, Adobe Systems has joined the LiMo Foundation, a group devoted to putting Linux on mobile phones. Read more »

Office 2010: You're not getting in without an invite

The next version of Office moved a step closer to reality on Monday as Microsoft released an invitation-only technical preview of Office 2010. Read more »

Macromedia love-in sends Adobe CS3 sales rocketing

It seems software buyers are taking a serious shine to Adobe Systems' Creative Suite 3, with creative professionals buying the product at a much faster rate than its predecessor Read more »

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Microsoft opens Popfly beta

Microsoft has opened the beta program for its new mash-up building system Popfly, unveiling the consumer-orientated tool to the world at last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Read more »

Microsoft Popfly service does mashups

Microsoft on Friday introduced a Web mashup builder for the rest of us. 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 »

More than meets the eye in Microsoft plan

A little-known Microsoft project promises to bring advanced graphics to a broad range of devices and set up a potential showdown with Adobe Systems. Read more »

W3C markup validator struggles after upgrade

Users complain of long delays in the service, after a more sophisticated version of the HTML validator was made live. Read more »

Macromedia launches Flash 8 beta

Three months after promising big changes in its signature Web animation software, Macromedia has released a public test version of the Flash player. Read more »

Public tests new version of Flash player

Three months after promising big changes in its signature Web animation software, Macromedia has released a public test version of the Flash player. Read more »

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HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

JavaFX sends Sun back to the future?

Sun's chief technology officer for software discusses the issues facing Sun with JavaFX and whether it will be enough to put Java back on the desktop. Read more »

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Spry Interrogation

Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe, discusses their designer centric Ajax framework Spry. Read more »

Understand the benefits of the JavaHelp framework

JavaHelp is an application help technology that can run on any platform and browser that supports Java. Peter Mikhalenko details the features and benefits of this easy-to-use framework. Read more »

Create your own HTML authoring tool

Learn how to create your own HTML authoring tool for creating quick and easy pages and forms. Read more »

An introduction to Silva

Australian technical writer Jan Smith highlights the features and functionality within Silva, an open-source content management system. Read more »

XML editing from a GUI

eWebEditPro 3.0+XML is a Web-based XML authoring tool that's designed to integrate with content management systems. See how it lets everyday users enter and manipulate XML. Read more »

Hiring a Web designer

When you're interviewing candidates for a Web designer position, you should carefully assess their skill set. Here's a list of technologies to look for and some questions to ask. Read more »

Wiki eases the documentation burden

WikiWikiWeb is an authoring tool that provides an easy, collaborative way to create browser-based, organic documentation. Read more »

Zend and the art of PHP

This article will discuss the validity of using PHP in enterprise endeavors and examine recent developments within this community. Read more »

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Super Techies: Marc Canter

In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer. Canter discusses his first job as a music programmer for video games; designing the multimedia authoring tools Shockwave and Director; and his current role as CEO of Broadband Mechanics, makers of open-source social networks. Read more »

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W3C releases mobileOK

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »

Adobe previews new Web dev tools

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Want to see what's in store for Adobe CS4? Public betas of Dreamweaver and Fireworks are available for download at Adobe Labs. Read more »

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    This 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 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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