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Adobe and Sony to Bring Unique Android Apps
Adobe Systems Incorporated and Sony Corporation announced the ‘Adobe AIR App Challenge Sponsored by Sony’ to drive the creation of innovative Android applications for the two models of “Sony Tablet” devices and offer developers a chance to win $200,000 in total cash prizes. Both companies will enable developers to tap into native device capabilities and combine Adobe Flash technology and HTML5 to deliver unique, high-performance mobile applications.
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Google Unveils New Photo-Sharing Social Network
Google has begun rolling out a new social-networking photo service, dubbed Photovine. Though Google has said little publicly about Photovine, the service appears to be one in which consumers can take snaps from their phones and have them upload in a stream of pictures in the same way that tweets flow into Twitter. Presumably, if you subscribe to someone else's Photovine, you'll see their latest photos almost as soon as they shoot them.
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Google Offers Beta Launching in NYC and the Bay Area
Following the first launch of Google Offers beta in Portland last month, Google is bringing great deals to the Big Apple and the Bay Area starting today. Subscribers who sign up at www.google.com/offers or via the new “Today’s Offer” tab in Google Shopper 2.0 for Android will start receiving emails with local offers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area today.
Microsoft
Early Peek At Windows Server 8
Microsoft officials showed off at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client, is on the same development track and path as Windows 8 client.
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Apple's Wild New 3D Gesturing
The US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals various concepts behind newly advanced 3D gesturing that will apply to CAD applications for product and gaming developers as well as for consumers. According to Apple, next generation iPad and/or other iOS device displays will allow consumers to create avatars for 3D environments or assist homeowners in designing new landscapes and more by using simple 3D gesturing.
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Firefox 7 Aurora Is Here
A couple of weeks after the Firefox 5 release, Mozilla is ready to make its regular channel migration. As such, Firefox 8 hits the nightly builds channel, mozilla-central, Firefox 7 Aurora is released, and Firefox 6 reaches the beta stage.
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Microsoft Skips Apple's Copy, Paste with Bing 'Lasso'
Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its native Bing application
for Apple's iPad that, with a new user gesture, aims to ditch the
need to use Apple's built-in copy-and-paste feature. The v1.1 update is now live in the App Store.
Google
Google's Browser Tops 20 Percent Market Share
Google Inc's Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent, according to Internet statistics firm StatCounter. A sevenfold increase in usage in the last two years is a boost for Google, which is trying to convert its dominance in Web search into operating systems and mobile software, bringing it into direct competition with Microsoft.
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