Adobe Systems Incorporated and thePlatform announced a new alliance aimed at providing enhanced solutions for the delivery of online and mobile content with secure video management and publishing services for media publishers utilizing the Adobe Flash Platform.
Read MoreMicrosoft today has added a free, 30-day trial version of its Office for Mac software to coincide with this year's Macworld Expo, taking place later this week in San Francisco. Now users can download the 600MB trial from Microsoft's Office site, which contains full versions of all its applications.
Read MoreHot on the heels of Mozilla's proposed Do Not Track solution, Google has
launched Keep My Opt-Outs, an extension for users who aren’t comfortable with personalization of the ads they see on the web. It’s a one-step, persistent opt-out of personalized advertising and related data tracking performed by companies adopting the industry privacy standards for online advertising.
The Apple App Store offered on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad is home to thousands of apps and many of them are quality apps that users download all the time. Apple is pleased to announce apps from its App Store have been downloaded over 10 billion times, which is an awesome feat and illustrates the significance of apps in the everyday consumer’s life.
Read MoreWhile it might not have a huge share of the desktop Web browser market, Opera certainly knows how to score deals with OEMs. Today, Opera announced that it has entered into a partnership with Sony to deliver an embedded browser on TVs and Blu-ray players.
Read MoreAccording to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the software giant is currently building copies of Internet Explorer 9 that include an “ActiveX filter” feature. The filter will allow users to control what ActiveX elements are displayed on sites they visit, furthering Microsoft’s commitment to security within its browser. Microsoft is expected to ship the feature inside Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC).
Read MoreSome recently discovered code in Google Docs suggests that add an audio player with playlist management will be added to the service, as well as a preview pane that will let users quickly preview files without opening them. The code has been posted on Google Operating System, and it contains references to previewpane, mediapreview-audioplayer, and addtomediaqueue.
Read MoreW3C has unveiled a new logo for HTML5 — and along with it, a new way of framing the conversation about newer web development technologies. With the ardent support of companies such as Google and a great deal of enthusiasm from developers in all areas of work, HTML5 has taken its place in popular conversation as the magic-bullet antidote for everything that’s wrong with web development.
Read MoreThe latest batch of rumors about the hardware architecture of Apple's next-generation devices is coming fast and furious. So far, they suggest that Apple is moving to Qualcomm baseband radios, beefing up the GPU with the latest designs from Imagination Technologies, doubling the CPU cores, and giving the iPad the higher-resolution display it so richly deserves.
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