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Adobe Launches New Digital Enterprise Platform for CEM

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced its new Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform for Customer Experience Management (CEM). The platform enables enterprises to build immersive, multi-channel digital interactions for today’s social and mobile customers. A significant milestone in the delivery of its CEM vision, the new offering by Adobe gives enterprises the ability to bring together marketing and IT to deliver engaging, authentic solutions that increase brand loyalty and bolster competitive differentiation.

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Adobe Enables Developers to Build Mobile Apps

Adobe Systems Incorporated delivered an update to Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software to enable developers to build applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. Support for Android devices was released in April 2011. Developers now have a single platform for building highly expressive mobile applications that can be distributed via the Android Market, Apple App Store and BlackBerry App World.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Declares WebGL 'harmful' to Security

A security firm raised new concerns today about WebGL--but Microsoft piled on with an opinion that's likely more damaging to fans' hopes for a universal 3D Web graphics standard. "We believe that WebGL will likely become an ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities," Microsoft said in a security blog post flatly titled "WebGL Considered Harmful." "In its current form, WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a security perspective."

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Google

Chrome 13 Goes Beta

One of the big feature additions Google is trumpeting in Chrome 13 is Instant Pages. Thanks to the magic of speculative pre-rendering and Google's unmatched ability to know what you want to do next before you do, Chrome can now silently load the pages you're most likely to click on from an existing page.

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Chrome Encrypts Gmail

Google, which has found Gmail to be a target of hacking attempts from China, has modified Chrome so the browser always encrypts connections with the e-mail service. Google already changed Gmail to use encryption by default, a mode indicated by the "https" at the beginning of a browser address bar that means outsiders sniffing network traffic can't read your e-mail. People could still get to the unencrypted version by typing "http://gmail.com," but no more, for Chrome.

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Google Launches New Search Features

Google held a press conference in San Francisco to demonstrate some new features in Google Search, both on the desktop and on mobile. The company says it's trying to knock down the barriers to knowledge - that is, barriers to Google search results - with innovations involving speech recognition, computer vision, translation and other advances.

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Microsoft

IE 9.0.1 Available via Windows Update

The June 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves seven vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that were disclosed in coordination with Microsoft. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a malicious, specially crafted Web page using IE.

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General

Firefox 5 Gets Faster Connections

Firefox 5 is a week away from being released as a final version. The browser is expected to be released as final on June 21. When you look at the changelog you will notice quite a few under the hood improvements that have not been talked about yet. HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND is one of those features. Most users probably wouldn’t associate a faster browser with that feature in particular, but the explanation on the Bugzilla site might change that.

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Microsoft Releases Android to Windows Phone Porting Tool

Microsoft has released an Android to Windows Phone API mapping tool for developers which will help developers port existing Android applications to the Windows Phone platform. Like its iPhone counterpart, the tool doesn't actually port your code for you automatically. Instead, what it provides is a list of API mappings that acts like a translation dictionary from one platform to the next.

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The Next Step in Embedded Youtube Videos

YouTube’s video preview images represent to many the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not to watch a video. If a preview image looks interesting, it can mean the difference between someone pressing the play button. Videos’ preview images can appear lower in quality, and sometimes you don't want a logo in your player. YouTube is rolling out new features for both situations: HD preview images and the option to remove the logo from your player.

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