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Adobe Flash Lite 3 launched

Adobe launched Flash Lite 3, a powerful runtime engine for mobile and consumer electronics devices that allows mobile device manufacturers, operators and content providers to differentiate their offerings. The new software supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices.

“With Flash Lite 3 and its support for video, we’ve passed a major milestone in bringing a desktop experience to mobile and transforming the wireless industry,” said Al Ramadan, senior vice president for Mobile and Devices at Adobe.

October 1, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Microsoft

Microsoft extends Windows XP's stay

Microsoft has bowed to the pressure of large pc manufactures to extended the period for selling Windows XP. The operating system will be sold for five additional months, until June 30.

"We believe the additional time will help some customers to prepare for the transition from XP to Vista," the company said in a statement.

September 28, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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General

Mozilla WebRunner 0.7 Released

Webrunner 0.7 is now available on the Internet with improved configuration capabilities and file system organization. WebRunner is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface.

September 27, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe

Flex 3 Beta 2 In Detail

Ted On Flex is Blogging about Flex 3 Beta 2 details each day, starting on Wednesday Sept 26. Many of the features he`s covering have not been discussed publicly.

September 27, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Mini review and competition of ActionScript 3.0 Animation

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of the ActionScript 3.0 Animation book. The friendly people of friends of ED are giving away 5 books! Read More

September 26, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop

A US company called Pudding Media introduced a web-based phone service, similar to Skype’s online service but free of charge. The catch: they are eavesdropping on phone calls with voice recognition software to monitor calls, then push conversation-relevant ads to the subscriber's computer screen.

“We saw that when people are speaking on the phone, typically they were doing something else,” said Ariel Maislos, chief executive of Pudding Media. “They had a lot of other action, either doodling or surfing or something else like that. So we said, ‘Let’s use that’ and actually present them with things that are relevant to the conversation while it’s happening.”

September 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Microsoft

Vista Ultimate buyers protest against missing Extras

Vista Ultimate users feel let down by Microsoft as no new Vista add-ons have been released since last February. They were promised extra features to distinguish the $399 operating system from $239 Home Premium.

September 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe

PDF compromises Windows

GNUCitizen warned that due to a leak in Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents there is a high security risk for Windows users.

September 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Google

Google launches JavaScript API that allows you to write back

The GData team released a GData JavaScript Client Library that allows users to access feeds that require authentication. Users can also write and update data in feeds. The first service that supports the new features is Google Calendar.

"The consequence of today`s release is basically that you can create an application without any server-side component involved, not even proxy sever and post it anywhere," commented Jun Yang, an engineer from Google Data APIs Team.

September 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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Microsoft

Windows Live Writer Beta launched

Microsoft released Windows Live Writer Beta, a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content on your Blog. Read More

September 24, 2007 Luba Sirakova

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