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 Adobe’s offensive to take over the Web with rich content applications built on its platforms reached another stage: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR-formerly known as Apollo) and Flex Builder are now available.Adobe Flex 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major...
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 Parallels 3.0 is finally out and besides offering support for native Windows applications directly in Mac OSX, it also provides better 3D support, which should please gamers with a Mac.The new Parallels 3.0 will provide support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, 'snapshot' backup and recovery of virtual machines, and a new suite of...
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 Sony officially announced firmware update 1.80 for PlayStation 3, which will only be unleashed in Europe on May 24.Among the most important updates included in the firmware upgrade is the upscaling of old DVDs, PS1 and PS2 games to full 1080p. That means that content stored on your old DVDs, or your old PS1 and PS2 games can be converted...
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 Skype is aggressively pushing into the casual gaming market, hoping to boost its popularity among users through this addictive social-networking feature.Already implemented in instant messaging clients like MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger, casual games are an important feature of the social networking, but also a source for...
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 The hype around Microsoft’s recent claims that Linux and, generally speaking, the open source community have infringed Redmond-crafted IP (intellectual property) is not going to calm down for a long time.It’s actually what was bound to happen: when Microsoft signed that pesky interoperability agreement last November with Novell, it...
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 Microsoft, through the voice of one of its lawyers, has claimed that the open source community and particularly the Linux OS and the OpenOffice software are violating no less than 235 Microsoft patents.During an interview with Fortune magazine, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, and Horacio Gutierrez, the company's vice president...
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 VMWare Inc. recently announced the availability of WMWare Workstation 6.0, which brings new features as Windows Vista support, USB 2.0 and multiple displays monitors support.Although virtualization is a technology introduced more than 8 years ago, few have heard of it and even fewer are using it on a regular base (although the term is...
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